Killing renews concerns for homeless Native Americans
Source: Associated Press
Mary Hudetz, Associated Press
Updated 11:05 pm, Thursday, April 19, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The morning a homeless man was shot and killed in Albuquerque, police say surveillance videos showed him running down a street before sunrise, and then gunfire flashed in the dark.
Ronnie Ross, a 50-year-old from the Navajo Nation town of Shiprock, had been shot a dozen times, including once in the forehead and temple, and four times in the back, according to a criminal complaint. Police say the two teenage suspects charged with murder this week apparently shot him "for fun" as they came and went from a hotel party nearby.
The homicide marked the latest in a series of brazen killings and assaults of homeless Native Americans in the city, where they make up only 4 percent of the city's population, but account for 44 percent of people living on the streets, raising the likelihood they will be victimized when there is an attack on the homeless.
A 2014 survey showed 75 percent of homeless Native Americans in Albuquerque had been physically assaulted.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Killing-renews-concerns-for-homeless-Native-12848747.php
SunSeeker
(51,784 posts)OldEurope
(1,273 posts)Teenagers shooting someone dead just for fun? And then bragging about it? I just can't understand this.
DFW
(54,476 posts)They have grown up in a culture that says they can have guns, and that people of "inferior" races are legitimate game. Their parents never told them otherwise, because they believe it, too.
Igel
(35,383 posts)Typical gun-humper, white-supremacist families.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1160527/teen-murder-suspects-appear-in-metropolitan-court.html
Timothy Chavez and Anthony Gallegos, aged 15 and 17.
The kids aren't all right.
JI7
(89,283 posts)turbinetree
(24,745 posts)let the tribal elders decide there fate.............................
3Hotdogs
(12,456 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I guess in this case and location Hispanics are above Natives in the hateful racist murderer pecking order. I wonder what percentage of the police force is Hispanic.
In an unrelated observation, street level scumbag wiseguys in my area promoted and backed dRump last election, so did the mob front business establishments along the 51 corridor from Brookline to the West End circle, but maybe these violent armed hotel partying youths aren't engaged in organized criminal activities for financial gain.
I remember when some hateful racist criminal Anglos (or maybe Irish or Italian guys who thought they were Anglo, defending outraged 'white honor') attacked an Hispanic homeless guy in Boston, to support dRumpfenfuhrer. He declined to condemn them.
There are Hispanics in the SW whose families were around there before the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. But the Natives were here first. This place is theirs.
The British empire used the same type of caste system with some success, so did the nazis up in the occupied Baltics during WWII. White guy up top, then the dominant 'minority' group, then a different imported minority group below them. Keep everybody punching down, and it works out well for the 'top' guys. And there is no bedrock principle defining which 'minority' is the victim and which is almost white, that is fluid. Depends on which side of an arbitrary border whitey was operating. Gandhi saw that in South Africa and India, the Poles and Lithuanians saw it in their nazi-occupied nations.