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Brutal Attack Spurs Worries of Racial Backlash

OC Human Relations urges whites and Hispanics to unite against violence after a brawl that left a San Clemente man in a coma.

 

Amid rumblings of possible racial overtones to a Jan. 6 street brawl that left two men injured and one in a coma, a county group is urging calm and unity.

"This is not a brown-white issue," said Rusty Kennedy, executive director of OC Human Relations, which works to prevent racial violence and foster ethnic understanding and tolerance. "It's an issue of violent gangsters."

Three Hispanic men -- including two allegedly affiliated with the Varrio Chico criminal gang in San Clemente -- have been charged with attempted murder and assault for allegedly beating three white men, one of whom was fighting for his life late Tuesday after being bashed in the head with a brick.

The motives behind the attack remain unclear, but racially charged rumblings in some parts of the white community have already begun in comments posted on Patch and other media outlets. Some in the city's Hispanic community--many of whom are proud of their civic involvement and efforts to stop gang crime over the last few years--fear a possible backlash.

OC Human Relations is a nonprofit that works closely with community groups and the Orange County Sheriff's Department to defuse tensions among the county's varied ethnic groups. It has a strong presence in San Clemente, largely through grant money from the Mission Hospital system.

Rose Velasquez--no relation to the Gilberto Velazquez accused in the crime--is a community organizer for OC Human Relations. She runs a youth group and other civic programs in the largely Hispanic Las Palmas neighborhood where she also lives.

"I spoke with a group of youth that I work with [about the crime]," she said. "They said other kids were going to tease them and hold them responsible. These are seventh-graders. I told them, 'You just do your best, you work hard and make the right choices.'

"Our whole plan is to have these kids get along with the Caucasian kids, and for them not to be racist either--like, 'Oh, those white kids...' We want to integrate the Hispanic community."

A History of Gangs

More than four years ago, the D.A.'s office persuaded a judge to impose gang injunctions over large swaths of central San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. The legal designation means gang members identified on a Sheriff's Department list face curfews and restrictions on clothing, association with others on the list and other rules.

Velasquez said many of San Clemente's Hispanic residents welcomed the injunction, although there was some backlash in San Juan Capistrano.

"When we did one-on-one interviews with [Las Palmas] parents three years ago--started knocking on doors--the No. 1 concern was 'How do I help my child so they don't become involved with gangs,' " Velasquez said.

Thanks to the injunction, combined with work by the sheriff's Gang Reduction and Intervention Program, OC Human Relations and the city of San Clemente, gang-related crime in town has drastically dropped over the past three years, officials said.

The idea behind all these organizations working together is to provide a community that faces language and socioeconomic barriers with tools to help get rid of crime in their area. The consensus among law enforcement professionals is that in neighborhoods with gang problems, it's often a small minority of criminals who end up terrorizing the majority of law-abiding residents.

Still Simmering

Despite the injunction, community meetings with law enforcement, community councils, youth groups, tutoring and extracirricular activites, the gang problem in San Clemente never went completely underground.

Just last year, as outlined in a successful grant application for extra policing that began in June at San Clemente bars, nuisance crimes involving Varrio Chico and a local white power gang have continued.

"Members of the Varrio Chico San Clemente (VCSC) street gang, San Clemente Boys (SCB), a group loosely affiliated with white pride groups, a large population of narcotics users and a large population of subjects on active probation and parole frequent The Triangle [downtown bar district]," the grant application states.

"These bars attract the sales of narcotics, which primarily consist of heroin and methamphetamine. Narcotics sales cause altercations between VCSC and SCB gang members."

Stopping the Cycle

The trick to stamping out these problems is to offer other options to children when they're young--before high school, Velasquez said.

When OC Human relations received its first grant to work in San Clemente, organizers tried to start youth groups in San Clemente High School. They found limited success there. But once Velasquez started working with seventh-graders at Shorecliffs Middle School, her youth group members brought up their grades and started extracurricular activities.

The Capistrano Unified School District, church groups and local businesses have also helped to make a concerted effort to stamp out kids' desire to join gangs.

Those who allegedly perpetrated the Jan. 6 attack ranged in age from 23 to 29--and two already have violent criminal backgrounds--are beyond the reach of schools or most community groups.

"They're full-grown men," Velasquez said. "You can't help everyone...[but] the kids don't want to be involved in this. They're actually taking the opportunities."

jeff s

6:53 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

Screw Mexican gangs. Stupid kids would not join a gang if they had decent parents. Send these fools back yonTJ.. Take your drugs and violence back to your filthy Mexico.

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Adam Townsend

7:59 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

The whole point of what the officials from OC Human Relations are saying is that the Mexican community in San Clemente hates this violence as much as you do. I don't think anyone here is defending Mexican gangs, just to be clear.

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Andres Solis

1:42 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

... should all white supremacy gangs be taken back Europe where all whites rule? Every race has a Gang, not only Hispanics. If the outcome had been the other way around, would White folks be outraged as well? I don't think so. Mexico may be filthy but i bet you still eat mexican food. Get your head straight.

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KenH

10:40 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

To Adres Solis:
Black and brown gangs comprise no less than 95% of all gang members. White supremacist gangs are few in number and rarely commit violence because when they do it's national headlines for weeks and months. You don't even know what you're talking about so it's best if you just keep your mouth shut.

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Joe

8:02 pm on Wednesday, April 11, 2012

About 0.00000000000000000001% of white people are in a street or prison gang. about 99.9999999999999999999999% of non-white people seem to want to be in a non-white street or prison gang or associate with one imo. Seems to be a clear cut difference in values to me. This is why whites don't want to be around non-whites.

Lindsey Hanson

8:49 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

"assault for allegedly beating three white men, one of whom was fighting for his life late Tuesday after being bashed in the head with a brick."
Good GOD! This assault was on two children whose father came out to rescue them= 3 men??? I know the kids are 18 but come on!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Lindsey Hanson

8:57 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

But this is NOT a race issue???? Come on! It's only sensible to realize not all Hispanics are illegal or gang affiliated but the fact of the matter is our gang problems are Mexican gang problems.

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Mr Salty

9:04 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

So if the "Mexican" community in San Clemente hates violence, who are the VCSC?
Guatamalens? Nicas?
Seems like the OC HR is making a gross generalization.
Saying " San Clemente's Mexican's hate violence" makes as much sense as saying San Clemente's Mexican's love cerveza.
I guess we have forgotten Steve Woods.
Pendejos.

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Adam Townsend

9:51 am on Friday, January 13, 2012

You're right. I did not mean to generalize. I think the message here is just to provide some perspective.

Johnene Russell-Brown

2:43 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

Just to clarify something, this wasn't a fight between two different gangs folks this was three young men that were attacked by a dozen or more Hispanics some of which were KNOWN gang members. It is horrific and needs to be dealt with as such! No one should have to live with the memories that these young men will live with the rest of thier lives, Imagine seeing one of your best buddy's down and now in a coma, it is something you would never forget! Pray for this young man! and Thoughts are with his family and friends ... they have a long road of healing {both physically and emotionally} ahead of them!

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Lindsey Hanson

3:01 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

It was two young men and the father of one of them.

Johnene Russell-Brown

3:22 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

It was three young men and then A father of one of the young men came out to try to calm the situation.

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george gregory

4:00 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

all races are victims of gang violence and I for one remember the paint roller thru a young man's head in san clemente not to far back race on race and the stabbings and deaths at the jail house bar and the beach hut bar,, and trained marines killing each other ectra
the idea these men may have gathered and hunted down the victims makes this very serious and makes me very angry and dissapionted ,, I for one a member of the largest gang in san clemente the citizens and residence will not tolerate this crime or the sand bagging OCSD

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Thomas

5:19 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

So they do not want a "rush to judgement?" If the facts were reversed, it would be national news with the headlines, white racists attack innocent hispanics, hispanic advocacy gropus demand justice!

The hispanic apologists come out of the wood-work to declare this was not a "brown-white issue." Would there have been calls for "understanding, patience, and tolerance" if it were hispanics who were assaulted? I think not!

And what is the likelihood these gang-banging scum are either illegal invaders or the byproduct thereof! How much more is America going to tolerate? It's past time for "backlash" against these criminals and this illegal invasion we are being subjected to and injured by!

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John Bowman

9:44 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

"If the facts were reversed, it would be national news with the headlines, white racists attack innocent hispanics, hispanic advocacy gropus demand justice! "

That is exactly what happened in Pennsylvania, even though both sides were making racial taunts, because the Hispanic guy slipped, hit his head on the pavement, and ended up in a coma, the end result was what you describe above.

Kathleen

8:13 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

Not a brown/white issue? True. Rather, it is but one example of dereliction of duty and violation of oaths of office on the part of every elected/appointed official who does not uphold and enforce our laws.

The dereliction of duty, bordering on treason, on the part of those we pay and entrust to uphold our laws is turning this country into a clone of the lawless, violent, and corrupt third world countries the illegal aliens left behind before invading ours.

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larry

8:57 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

Help stop illegal immigration. HERE'S HOW: http://www.numbersusa.com
YOU can make a difference!

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John Bowman

8:58 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

So where is Eric Holder and Juan Perez of DOJ and the ACLU, filing hate crime and a half dozen other civil rights charges against the racist Hispanic perpetrators? Oh that's right, they only file these charges against white people.

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Kathleen

3:15 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

Ditto! Thomas Perez is, in my opinion, more bigoted and racist than Eric Holder. His blatant abuse of power, combined with what is most likely his obstruction of justice in the Fast and Furious debacle (tragedy for the family of Brian Terry), should have resulted - months ago - in his immediate removal from office.

James Wilson

7:07 am on Saturday, January 14, 2012

Shouldn't these "gangs" be considered terrorist organizations? I think so, and those that harbor them are guilty too.

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Kathleen

3:30 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

On that premise shouldn't every and any elected or appointed official who does not aggressively work to purge every and any illegal alien from their designated area of authority be charged with violating federal law (aiding and abetting), their oath of office, our Constitution, and removed from office - charged with gross and willful dereliction of duty. A fish rots from the head down. These illegal aliens would not be employed by greedy employers or allowed to roam, with impunity, through our country were it not for corrupted elected/appointed officials.

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Adam Townsend

2:55 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Actually, two of the three suspects are charged with "street terrorism" enhancements that, if convicted, will make the sentence more severe. This has become a common enhancement added when prosecuting gang cases.

Paul Armstrong

12:36 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

Hispanic racist attack on innocent white civilians. Part of reconquesta?

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Kathleen

3:20 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

Note to Adam Townsend: If the Mexican community was as concerned about the violence of Mexican gangs they would enjoin with law-abiding Americans of all ethnic backgrounds in demanding all elected/appointed officials put an end to this illegal alien invasion and also seal our border. Talk is cheap and action speak louder than words.

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aaron

4:39 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

The people of SC have no clue whats going on. So much of this stuff goes unreported due to the nature of the individuals involved. It doesn't surprise me that Adam/Patch is unaware of the two White kids that were shot and hit last night by SCVC.

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CMiles

9:37 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

AARON here is the The san Clemente Blotter info that came in at 4:55 AM on 1/14/2012 Non-life threatening injurises. [1/14/2012 02:59:43 : pos10 : HACKSM] GANG RELATED INFORM WILL NOT GIVE A DESCRIPTION [1/14/2012 02:54:04 : pos10 : HACKSM] Cross streets: AVD VICTORIA//OLA VISTA NBH: 992J5 92672 33.4221519972954,-117.615614008114 2 MALES JUST SHOT OC FIRE ENROUTE ARREST WAS MADE WEAPONS VIOLATION

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CMiles

10:01 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

AARON: Another San Clemente Blotter FACT that the shooting occured! FACT 1/14/2012 11:37:30 : pos5 : JFRY] [Cleared with unit 174] [1/14/2012 11:12:03 : pos10 : HIXSONC] Cross streets: AVE SANTA BARBARA// AVE ROSA NBH: 992J5 92672 33.42253,-117.616205 931 REF TRK DAMAGED FROM SHOOTING THAT OCCURED LAST NIGHT

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Peter Schelden

2:58 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hey CMiles, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'll get a story up shortly.

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Peter Schelden

3:40 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

OK, thanks to CMiles we now have a story on the Saturday morning attack. You can find it here: http://patch.com/A-qkf6

lewy

5:54 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

I, do ask all the Hispanic & white affiliations, to please let it go !
This was not about gang vs. gang, this was a truck load of known members (ADULT).
attacking children.
Please let it go & hope that we can unite together, all live & work in the same city.
Dan J

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lewy

5:56 pm on Saturday, January 14, 2012

James blood your on the wrong topic, please excuse yourself !
Dan J

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Lindsey Hanson

8:55 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Dan Jacobsen is the father who fought these fools off his son and the brick victim.

CMiles

12:48 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

The idea behind all these organizations working together is to provide a community that faces language and socioeconomic barriers with tools to help get rid of crime in their area. The consensus among law enforcement professionals is that in neighborhoods with gang problems, it's often a small minority of criminals who end up terrorizing the majority of law-abiding residents.

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Rufus murdock

1:50 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

As long as we turn a blind eye to the truth lies will be passed on to our children. This is our town a white town with waves and sunsets not gangs and guns what happend to slinging fists instead of bullets to bad we don't call it what it is a problem that needs to be dealt with what is rascism but a excuse for the deeds done by scum it will never change til we stand up as a people a community and change it unit and take back what's yours or it will be gone tommorow. Los Angeles was once a nice place to live. Stop being afraid of being called a racist it's called realist because it's what's really going on. Pray for peace but prepare for war

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george gregory

9:09 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I'm reading a lot of hate and ask that attacks on the editor and some peoples paranoia to stop
hate mongering will not help only a change in culture will

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Lindsey Hanson

9:28 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I'm with you George. The point is being muddled by blind hate.

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Lindsey Hanson

9:35 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

The shooting did occur! SC police denied it when I called last night. But it did happen. It's in the blotter.

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iwitness

12:12 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I witnessed the drive-by shooting on Victoria Street Friday night (actually approximately 3 am technically Saturday morning) and it did happen. You can still see the blood on the pavement. A drive-by shooting happened with two persons shot, one person was shot in the head and one person in the elbow. A car of hispanics reportedly drove by and shot the victims who were standing outside. One white male who was at the scene with the victims was arrested for a weapons violation. The suspects in the shooting sped away and supposedly were not apprehended.

Ellen Smith

9:53 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Europeans must learn to differentiate between the Jews and Europeans. We know that the Jews created their own pigsty and this situation. I say they are getting their just rewards.

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Lindsey Hanson

10:36 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ellen Smith you are an ignorant simpleton. You don't even know what fight you are fighting. You aren't even from SC. Go spew your garbage elsewhere. You are not helping at all. You wouldn't even know how to begin to help. You're worse than the people you persecute. You are the spreader of hate and ignorance. You are the problem along side the Mexican gangs. Lowlife scum comes in all colors. Stupidity is the fuel to your backwards fight. You are the problem.

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Ellen Smith

10:56 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Lindsey Hanson, the truth hurts, doesn't it. I am helping in a round-about way. I'm calling for all Europeans to butt out of this fight. It's not our fight. It's between the Jews and Mexicans. There! I helped.

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Lindsey Hanson

11:22 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ellen the truth is your just a bigot. You're not here to add anything to this conversation. You can't. You're obvious lack of intelligence makes you just another cockroach. You white supremacist garbage can go to hell right aside the illegal immigrants. Really there's little difference when it comes to your contributions to the greater good. Trash is trash is trash. I want it all out of my town.

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Lindsey Hanson

11:28 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Making broad generalizations about race I about as intelligent as thinking the Earth is flat. It will always be the uninformed uneducated like yourself starting all the problems.

Diane

10:20 am on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Andres Solis

1:42 pm on Friday, January 13, 2012

... should all white supremacy gangs be taken back Europe where all whites rule? Every race has a Gang, not only Hispanics. If the outcome had been the other way around, would White folks be outraged as well? I don't think so. Mexico may be filthy but i bet you still eat mexican food. Get your head straight.
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For your ignorant information Andres Solis, we here in the U.S.- Hispanics that were
Native American/Spanish and not Mexican---our southwest food was here for generations. And it is similar to Mexican food. In fact I like our southwest food better than Mexico food.
Also I lived in the American southwest all my life as I am Native American and I don't recall one White Supremacist gang ever. The KKK was formed in the south and some were here but it was never a big deal in the southwest. I never saw it.
Now that the Mexicans are here in droves we are seeing criminality we have never seen before. It would be wonderful if all you Mexicans that have no respect for Americans would get and go home! What a dream that would be for all Americans.

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Eastside

12:30 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

There's a good reason for the headline and story angle "worries of racial backlash". Like "journalism" in the old Soviet Union, Adam Townsend and his editors are more concerned with telling us how to think than reporting facts. They wouldn't want those evil white people noticing the high levels of crime from Mexican and Central American immigrants.

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BeachMomma

12:42 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ellen Smith-The boys were not Jews. Learn true facts. Your ignorance is frightening-

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Ellen Smith

1:07 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Yes, Beach Momma, your ignorance is indeed frightening. Obviously, you never read the article. It said, "Jacobson, who pulled away some of the attacters, said he dragged his son - who had been knocked unconscious". Jacobson is a Jewish Rabbi, so that makes his son a Jew, does it not? Even Lindsey Hanson in her above post said that Jacobson is the father of one of the victims. Yes, ignorance is indeed frighening.

BeachMomma

1:21 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I did read the article. But actually didn't need too because I know these boys. This was not a Jew Crime. Only you White Supremist go after the Jews. So sad you live a life of hate.

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Ellen Smith

2:13 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Beach Momma, somehow I don't believe you. You don't know these boys at all. You must be a Jew, the way you lie. Actually, I live a life of Love. Love of my own race. I love my own race. That bothers you doesn't it? I'm surrounded by people of my own race and I love it. I don't associate with other races at all. I don't go after Jews, as you put it. I just don't want to be around them. Goodby and may Thor (my God), forgive you your transgressions.

Mr Salty

2:26 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Thor? Not Mighty Odin? HA HA! You will suffer the consequences for your folly!.
Your grandchildren's children will most certainly be mixed race homosexual humanists.

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BeachMomma

2:27 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ellen-of course you don't believe me. You live in a world of distrust and hate. I have known these boys for many years. Glad you have moved.And pray to Thor to give you intelligence. You need it.

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BeachMomma

2:31 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Your right Mr. Salty and they will love their Jewish lovers proudly

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c

3:58 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I am so confused??? Was Phil Whitman with the men that were shot or was he one of the shooters?

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Peter Schelden

4:04 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Hi Phil, police haven't made that clear yet. One commenter said he was arrested for separate weapon charges, though.

San Fernando Curt

5:13 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

So... let me get this straight. From your headline and reports of those sinister "rumblings in the white community" issue here is no longer the attack and near-murder, but fear of backlash from those rumbling white people. When, exactly, was the last time whites rampaged through Hispanic neighborhoods, in violent "backlash"? Anyone can post anything to a blog. Actually, there's no proof these "rumblings" actually reverberated from white people. Enough with the phony hand-wringing. These days "racism" is defined as one or more white people waking up in the morning.

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Adam Townsend

10:14 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

I wrote this story because, as the editor of this community news publication, I've received a lot of emails and comments on this issue from many segments of San Clemente, so I thought I should address the concerns. Furthermore, a witness to the crime specifically asked me whether OC Human Relations was going to get involved--a legitimate question, considering this is that organization's area of expertise, and they were anxious to talk to me. I let them say their piece and tried to provide a little background.
I don't think any assertions of violence or even racism were implied. I alluded to "racially charged" comments; very specifically avoiding accusations of racism.

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San Fernando Curt

12:25 pm on Monday, January 16, 2012

Mr. Townsend, it's epitome of disingenuousness to point out you didn't mention violence or racism. Just what is this fearsome "racial backlash" supposed to be? Intemperate critique at a country-club luncheon? Because that's as far as it will go. There is a myth in media that non-whites are forever besieged by phantom Klansmen, that lynching still is prevalent, that racism is as virulent as ever. You've never witnessed a lynching, Mr. Townsend; you've never encountered a Klan member. ...Neither have I. Look. Nobody but partisan squeaky wheels will accuse you of racism for simply telling the truth: Three white teenagers were set upon and beaten senseless by Hispanic gangsters. There. Now, look out your window. Do you see honkie nightriders prowling the streets, spoiling for vengeance? ...You won't

KenH

7:39 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

Some people think whites and non-whites attack each other at a roughly equal rate. But the fact remains that non-whites attack whites at a far higher rate and this is proven by police stats and by the FBI uniform crime report. Blacks, for instance, commit somewhere around 80% of hate crimes, mostly against whites. This is why white people should and do go ballistic over stories like this because it occurs far more than liberals wish to admit.

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PK

8:05 pm on Sunday, January 15, 2012

SC would be a much better place without all the trashy low income/ slum lord run apartment building that dominate more than half of the beachside of the 5 freeway. Tear them down. Re-build, and send the scums who live in them back to where they belong. I am fed up with litter everywhere, car break-in's and now this type of street violence. WAKE UP! This is supposed to be "The Village by the Sea" Not Santa Ana, not Tiajuana, and caertainly not in the headlines for gang shootings. When will this city counsel and mayor actually really address the ghetto that is being allowed to continue here?

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Carl ashworthoc

9:24 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

rusty Kennedy and his orange county human relations commission overlook hate crimes if they are committed against white males. He is a very odd person who seems to sadistically enjoy it when white males being abused.

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Avlank

10:15 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

To clarify. This was two 18 year old kids who were beaten nearly to death and the father of one came to help and got beaten as well.

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Priscilla

9:55 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

This was a good article that hopefully got the attention of some SC citizens that maybe want to take action, NOT just complain. These hispanic families don't want their children gang affiliated, what parent would? They are (legally) working 2+ jobs, you know the ones that make SC luxury lives possible. Without, economy would suffer. You wouldn't be able to eat out, and I could go on but pretty much it's undeniable that they hold our OC towns together. I went to HS here, the white supremacy groups "skin heads" sure make themselves known, and it's a fact they still exist. Their parents didn't all want them like that either. I'm NOT backing up Mexicans or Whites. Who hasn't regretted something in their life and guidance was all you needed, not everyone grows up with family greeting them on their doorstep.
@Diane Don't generalize, some maybe don't respect Americans, but I know many that more than respect Americans, they idolize and want to be us
@Rufus Really? "Our town is a white town with waves and sunsets" Come back when do some research

Throw your statistics away. HS boys and older get in fights more than is accounted for, they ALL need help.
The point of journalism is to grab your attention... Done.
SO...stop complaining & find a way to Take Action.

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Wow

10:45 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

What you said is untrue, and no one is buying it anymore. The Hispanic community has a problem with racism. Whites used to have a massive problem with it, but now we're called "racist" even if we just want to live in our own communities without permitting anyone that wants to move in with us. Only a tiny, minute portion of the white population falls for the 90's style snarky liberal crap. We've seen that this community has a problem with racism, with violence, and with how it views and interacts with the world, and blaming white people for it isn't just stupid, it's counter productive. Everyone knows that white power crime groups are less than 1% of the prison population and harping on such a small, no longer respected group does not lend your racist, extremely ethnically insecure garbage any credence.

We just want to be left alone.

Wow

10:30 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

This is absolute garbage. "Oh, I'm so sorry we misinterpreted the racism in the Hispanic community! Of course, us racist white folks just don't understand. "

You can't lead a community if all you do is contribute turning things into an us vs. them issue, and not having any understanding of how the Caucasians in America view the situation is bound to be a serious impediment. This article is nothing more than another example that white people are expected to be utterly defenseless against the Hispanic community thanks to the ability to play the race card.

Instead of ordering us around on how to feel about people illegally entering the country, playing the race card to stay, and then contributing to a trend that now shows Caucasians singled out as the overwhelming victims of violence, maybe you should make a feeble attempt to understand the community you are trying to communicate with. White democrates used to be so common the state was actually well known for them. Congratulations, Rasmussen, Ipsos and other polls show over and over again that people like you have ended that trend permanently, and can read an article like this and see clearly what is really going on.

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Wow

10:51 am on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Mr. Townsend, it's epitome of disingenuousness to point out you didn't mention violence or racism. Just what is this fearsome "racial backlash" supposed to be? Intemperate critique at a country-club luncheon? Because that's as far as it will go. There is a myth in media that non-whites are forever besieged by phantom Klansmen, that lynching still is prevalent, that racism is as virulent as ever. You've never witnessed a lynching, Mr. Townsend; you've never encountered a Klan member. ...Neither have I. Look. Nobody but partisan squeaky wheels will accuse you of racism for simply telling the truth: Three white teenagers were set upon and beaten senseless by Hispanic gangsters. There. Now, look out your window. Do you see honkie nightriders prowling the streets, spoiling for vengeance? ...You won't

This one statement counters the article utterly. You can't walk out of your front door in my community without being called a cracker. Children are picked on in public and "Magnet Schools" that are designed to attract mixed ethnic groups become prisons for white students, who are constantly barraged with garbage like this. Please stop writing this crap. When only one ethnic group (hispanics) show any support for this viewpoint and you actually have the gall to point out minute white pride organizations that even whites dislike, all you are doing is encouraging whites to tune you out.

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