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Gangs form around an economy. In the case of OMGs, the economy is drug and human trafficking, extortion, contract slaying and various other illicit businesses.
by nickbauman 11y ago
Gangs form around an economy. In the case of OMGs, the economy is drug and human trafficking, extortion, contract slaying and various other illicit businesses. Many OMGs are made up of a large percentage of ex military, with the USMC highly represented. Ditto for police forces, maybe not as much USMC. Considering how many soldiers we have, it's no surprise that OMGs are on the rise. You can thank the GWoT for that. They fight over economic power, often expressed as turf wars. So those are the dots. It's not hard to connect them.
The bottom line is three gangs met that day. Two of them without an official mandate.
- glibgil 11y agoThat's the bottom line for anyone who didn't read the article. The article builds a timeline of events that is outside the official story. I appreciate that you recognize the police are a gang, but the article is trying to cover some specific things, not generalities.
- nosuchthing 11y agoRead the article and you'll see it's more about the legal aspects of a situation where 177 people were indiscriminately sent to jail on rubber stamped charges. Imagine being in an IRC channel with a 200 people and 10 of them got into a fight, presumably hacked each other, and than everyone in the channel is arrested on felony charges, and sent to jail with $100,000 bonds. Allegedly there may have been provocation and excessive weapons use by the police posing as members of rival groups.
- nickbauman 11y agoNo I saw that. But this is Texas we're talking about. Texas is one of the most corrupt states when it comes to criminal justice. There have been articles written about how people end up stuck in the system for years based on only one charge of vagrancy. Lubbock is one of the worst places to get arrested in the US, for example.