Nearly 2,000 Inmates Riot in California Jail

[Kushnology]

And some believe Mexicans are our allies? Think again.

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Nearly 2,000 Inmates Riot in Calif. Jail By ANDREW DALTON, Associated Press Writer
Sun Feb 5, 12:15 PM ET


CASTAIC, Calif. - Nearly 2,000 inmates rioted at a Southern California jail, throwing mattresses and banging heads against bunk beds, in an uproar that officials said stemmed from racial tensions. One inmate was killed.

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More than 100 inmates were wounded and 20 were hospitalized with serious injuries from the nearly hour-long melee on Saturday, authorities said. Smaller fights broke out for at least four hours after the main brawling ended.

"The motivation appears to be racial tensions and a carry-over of a feud between black and Hispanic gangs," said Deputy Steve Suzuki, a sheriff's spokesman. Two days earlier, a Hispanic gang member was stabbed by a black gang member, he said.

Black and Hispanic inmates were being segregated and a lockdown was ordered systemwide, Sheriff Lee Baca said.

Authorities had information that a disturbance was imminent, but they didn't know the time or location, said Sam Jones, chief custody officer of the county jail system.

A 45-year-old black inmate who was a registered sex offender was killed, Suzuki said. Twenty-six wounded inmates were treated at the jail; the 20 hospitalized inmates did not have life threatening injuries. No jail employees were injured.

The North County Correctional Facility, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, is a maximum-security complex composed of five jails that together house about 4,000 inmates.

It is illegal to segregate inmates based on race or ethnicity, but legal advisers said it can be done in emergency situations, Jones said.

The jail has a history of race related riots. In 2000, a three-day riot at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic injured more than 80 inmates, leaving one in a coma. Attorneys representing 273 black inmates filed a civil rights lawsuit alleging the sheriff's department failed to disarm Hispanic inmates.

Several racially motivated brawls at Castaic jails in 1998 injured dozens of inmates. In 1996, 5,300 prisoners battled, leaving six guards and 123 inmates injured after the Mexican Mafia prison gang ordered an attack on blacks.

[Divine Prince Ty]

As a person of mixed ancestory and a member of the large community that parctices Yoruba/Santeria/Voudon, etc. I find that we have more in common than not. I also find more hispanics keeping the African dieties alive than I sometimes do within my Africans in amerikkka community. It is not until main-stream socialization and situations that I find we have this competative and seperatist nature between us and I say here today that this won't benifit either race if we continue to allow the divide and conquer plan to continue. Many of us Black folk have Native American and so-called "hispanic" ancestry also and have worked together and created families that helped (my familiy) excape slavery. Remember Sister Shakur is finding a place of refuge among our Spanish speaking Family. I for one, am truely grateful.

[Kushnology]

Welcome to Assata, Divine Prince Ty.

If you noticed I was careful how I select my words in my opening statement. I chose the adjective Mexican rather than Hispanic. Reason being millions of Blacks of Afrikan origin are under the 'Hispanic' category. When I used the word Mexican this narrows down the origins of people who are primarily of Aztec decent who are terrorizing Blacks throughout the California correctional system.

We all must remind ourselves that 'Hispanics' (a cultural concept & not by race) who practice Afrikan dieties generally are Black people and not Aztec, Mayan or other peoples categorized as "Indian" or Mestizo of central and South America.

Yes it's true our beloved sister Assata has taken up safe refuge in Cuba. Many Blacks like myself are very grateful for this gesture. However please don't mistake Cuba's hospitality for Assata as an indicator of a colorblind society - because it is not. There's much evidence to suggest Black Cubans suffer the same amount of racial prejudice and discrimination from white Cubans as their brethren experience in Amerikkka, Brazil, central & south American countries.

Blacks in central and South America are among the most discriminated people on the face of the earth. This is not mere conjecture but a fact. Nor is this a condition Black people choose to be in but rather socially engineered upon them by ruling elite - who are often whites of Spaniard, Portuguese or Mestizo decent.

[Mosi Ngozi]

This a common accurance in the prisons all over the Amerikkkas and not some isolated incident. This are all unconcious people of colour who have been duped into believing that there can be no unity amongst people of colour while incarcerated well knowing that we are up against an enemy that does not have our best interest at heart.Their motto is divide and conquer and all will be well and the government continues to try to destroy all people of colour by createing racial tension.