Cudahy, California, Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez faced widespread outcry after she encouraged deadly Latino gangs to confront Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
A video posted by Gonzalez, whose suburb’s population exceeds 22,000, located 10 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, showed her calling on the 18th Street and Florencia gangs to help confront ICE.
“I wanna know where all the cholos are at in Los Angeles,” she said, using a slang term for Latino gang members. “Eighteenth Street, Florencia, where the leadership at?”
“Because you guys are all about territory … claiming hood, and now that your hood’s being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there isn’t a peep out of you,” Gonzalez continued. “It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out
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