@BlueMetalChick: Yep. The LA Times has a homicide page and Latino males from East L.A. are overwhelmingly represented. Bad scene. And the real fucked up thing is that it's multi-generational. Stupid.

@Ynotisay: I had a (very) brief involvement in acting for a small period of time in my life and I was in LA often. I quite liked West LA. I used to stay at the same Best Western all the time and I hung out in this lumber yard called Anawalt Lumber all the time for whatever reason. I have no idea why I'm remember all this now lol

@BlueMetalChick: HA. I live pretty close to Anawalt. They get my business before Home Depot. Good vibe. Not a bad place to hang out at all. :)

THAT would be a fucking nightmare!

@BlueMetalChick: Yes.

@lastbabyboomer: I guess there's a reason those projects got torn down.

Even here near Peoria, public housing was never a good idea. Too many criminals in one place.

As someone who lived in the Middle East in a Muslim hellhole for nine years, I've never seen the heads on pikes, but I've seen a LOT of hangings. If you're Christian, hanged. Atheist, hanged. A woman who went to school, hanged. Woman who drove a car, hanged. Homosexual, hanged. It was bad.

@BlueMetalChick: Yes, very bad.

I know. I'll bet whoever did it had to be whacked out on drugs or something.

Sad but true. 😥

people treat each other pretty badly.

@theowl: Yes. And that's a truly shame! :-(

No. Iraq and Chicago are completely different places and I think Spike Lee was an idiot for trying to coin that term.

But some people have begun referring to it as "Viet-Rahm" and I think that's kinda funny even if it's inaccurate.

No surprise that it happened in the Garfield Park neighborhood. It's like a lawless town of its own there.

It's actually not too far away. Garfield Park, a couple neighborhoods over.

Lmao thankfully I live downtown, where the city is much nicer.