Confrontations between the Skinheads and their targeted victims were often random, but they usually culminated in serious injury or death to the victim.
Hence, the name "Latin Kings and Queens", which as it denotes, is a reference to members of all Latino heritages. They are involved in a variety of criminal activities, and their arsenals are expanding to large-caliber.
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They assumed the role of traditional girlfriends but, at times, would challenge other females in rival gangs to fight. Such representations serve specific purposes and political agendas, but they also obscure the fundamentally revealing nature of gangs and what they have to say about our societies.
Gangs in Asia—particularly the Tongs, the Chinese Triads, and various secret societies—can be linked to similar groups in the United States.
Trump uses such emotionally charged rhetoric about gangs to try to justify everything from the building of a wall along the US-Mexico border to keep them out to negatively portraying Latino immigrants more generally insofar as he mostly refers to the Central American gang MS Like the Black Panthersthe Young Lordsand many other groups perceiving social injustices directed at their ethnic group,[ citation needed ] the Latin Kings were broken as a movement.
For example, when a gang becomes more violent or when its activities become more exclusive, these are often signs of broader forms of repression and discrimination against certain groups within society.
Crime statistics in the s suggested that gangs were responsible for a large percentage of homicide cases and for about two-fifths of illegal drug sales in urban areas.