The good thing is that the gangs in La Cruces and Laguna aren't fighting each other anymore ... the bad thing is that the have aligned themselves in a mutual hatred against the police and authority.
More excitement. More danger. In every barrio Feral teens are running in packs!
These kids are out gunned and under equipped but well compensated by knowing their territory and their hatred of the authorities.
Police; better watch your backs ... and your families. Hate is inclusive.
Maybe that's why the police cruse these areas in five police car convoys with their Christmas lights flashing! Makes quite a sight. Makes quite a target too.
Testosterone vs. testosterone! As the kids will say, "it all comes down to balls."
In Laguna one day I remember sitting in my car watching a bunch of teens messing around in their basketball court when the police arrived ... half the kids headed every direction like rabbits; the other six didn't run, just quietly stood there. The quiet kids just standing there were cuffed and hauled away in a police pick-up truck, interrogated, beaten and then released to walk home.
These undisciplined kids need their beatings and the police need to beat someone ... I guess they deserve each other.
Last night Victor, 17, father of two little girls, was walking home from work when he encountered the police near his neighborhood. They told him to stand still but instead he ran. Bad move ... the police shot him dead! Victor wasn't really a bad kid. He wasn't even wanted ... but he's a dead kid now! He lived in Laguna.
Another Cop snuffed out a young life. Sleep well Sr. Policia.
At the mortuary last night Victor's teen friends from Laguna gathered to kiss the casket. The police soon appeared looking to take all his teen friends to jail and 'interrogate' them. Fortunately Hortensia was there to talk the police out of it.
If you do, or if you don't, if you're one or many, stand or run ... You'll be pulled, interrogated, beaten and released.
Just a way of life for these wandering packs of feral teens.
These wild teens we work with are in every neighborhood with guns, knives or broken bottles ... they're armed and angry.
They hate! Their target ... the police.
Pray for us as we work their world; trying to make peace, and trying to convince them to take another direction. It's hard while anger and hate blind their minds.
But we Believe all things are possible with God!
By the way, somehow they found out the address of the policeman that shot Victor ... this isn't good! Sr. Policeman, watch your back!
