Comments on: Crips and Bloods Feeling the Pinch of Rising Gas Prices? http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/16/crips-and-bloods-feeling-the-pinch-of-rising-gas-prices/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:07:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Damien Newton http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/16/crips-and-bloods-feeling-the-pinch-of-rising-gas-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-53655 Damien Newton Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:25:34 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/16/crips-and-bloods-feeling-the-pinch-of-rising-gas-prices/#comment-53655 A guy from the Latino Urban Forum complained to me the other day that Mexicans get run over on their bikes all the time and nobody ever forms a Task Force in reference to the Mandeville Canyon incident...It's like I keep telling you Aaron, it's a different world out here. A guy from the Latino Urban Forum complained to me the other day that Mexicans get run over on their bikes all the time and nobody ever forms a Task Force in reference to the Mandeville Canyon incident...It's like I keep telling you Aaron, it's a different world out here.

]]> By: ubrayj02 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/16/crips-and-bloods-feeling-the-pinch-of-rising-gas-prices/comment-page-1/#comment-53643 ubrayj02 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:22:07 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/16/crips-and-bloods-feeling-the-pinch-of-rising-gas-prices/#comment-53643 Ah, come on now. This has nothing to do with gas prices. People have been shot in bike-by shootings in L.A. before. The violence in South L.A. has more to do with other things, and it is multi-modal. There are fights and violence on and around public transit too. The number of bus bench shootings in L.A. alone ... I will admit, however, that this is a darkly comic angle to take on such a grim story. Ah, come on now. This has nothing to do with gas prices. People have been shot in bike-by shootings in L.A. before. The violence in South L.A. has more to do with other things, and it is multi-modal. There are fights and violence on and around public transit too. The number of bus bench shootings in L.A. alone ...

I will admit, however, that this is a darkly comic angle to take on such a grim story.

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