Who knows about  Latasha Harlings and the LA riots?
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Well, I was there. Still am. I know what happened to Latasha Harlins and I certainly remember the riots.
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I have done some pretty extensive research on this, and unfortunately, there is no info available about her.  I even checked out some old questions on here about this, and nobody was ever able to find out her identity.  Sorry!
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http://alipac.us/article1148.html \n\nSome Latino Protesters Support 'Reconquista' Of The Southwest USA! \nPosted on Tuesday, April 11 @ 07:56:47 CDT \nTopic: Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists\n  \nThe true colors of many Latinos have been on display in the past week of protests, and they weren't just red, white and blue.  \nThey were also red, white and green (Mexico), yellow, blue and red (Ecuador), red, yellow and green (Bolivia), blue and white (El Salvador, Guatemala) and red, white, blue and black (Anahuac).\n\nThe Mexica movement claims Olmec ancestry and aims to take back the continent from "racist thieving" Europeans on behalf of the "Nican Tlaca," or indigenous people. \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, which claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for "La Raza de Bronze." \n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups, MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, "For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nMany of California's leading Hispanic politicians were "Mechistas" in college, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. \n\nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\nAs a student group, MEChA tends to be dominated by immigrants' children and descendants, not immigrants themselves. \n\nBut the views of most Mexicans aren't far away from MEChA's. \n\nThe major players in the Hispanic lobby deny any racist motives.\n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups,MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, \n"For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, \nwhich claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for      "LA RAZA  de Bronze." \n\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- \na fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. \nAs such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. \nThese are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. \nThe current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\nOther Members Of These Groups Include: \n\n-- Angel Gutierrez, \nProfessor, University of Texas, Arlington- \nFounder of the La Raza Unida political party - \n"We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . .They are shitting in their pants with fear...I love it. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."  \n\n-- Fernando Guerra, \nProfessor, Loyola Marymount University - \n"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "\n\n-- Jose Pescador Osuna \nMexican Consul General - \n"We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." \n\nTaken From "Excelsior", The national newspaper of Mexico, \n"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."\n\n-- Cruz Bustamante \nFormer Lt. Governor, California \nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\n
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lived from 1885-1941.\n\nNovember 9: Story 1  After listening to brief arguments yesterday afternoon Justice Childs in Special Term dismissed the habeas corpus proceedings instituted by Anthony C. Woeckener against Frank C. Bostock to get possession of his wife, Chiquita, the doll lady. William J. Creamer represented Bostock and Eugene M. Bartlett appeared for Chiquita's boy husband.\n\nAs soon as the writ was dismissed, and before Mr. Bostock could leave the court house, papers were served on him in a suit for $20,000 damages brought by Woeckener for Bostock's action in separating him from his wife. At the same time an order of arrest for Mr. Bostock, as an incident to this civil action, was prepared for the purpose of insuring his presence at the trial. This order of arrest was served by Deputy Sheriff Bates and later Mr. Bostock furnished bail in the sum of $1000 and was released. \n\nAll I could find about him lol.
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http://www.calliope.org/shays/shays2.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays'_Rebellion
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Isn't it ironic that the protest makes me want them to protest everyday!\n\nThis was the best traffic day in the Long Beach area. I am actually planning on going to the mall after work because it wont have as many crying babies and little brats!
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Wait for all the facts.  Everything else at this time is pure speculation and conjecture.\n\nSo I guess the moron who gave me a thumbs down is more interested with starting a riot than waiting for facts.  Go ahead...call it a Racial Incident, when 4 oft of the 6 officers who are in question, are minorities.  Close minded people would rather call it something it wasn't so they can burn down the neighborhood, and rip off all the local stores.  How is any of that justice???  It's not.  Just wait for the facts for Christs sake.\n\nAnd to the guy who answered below this.... A vehicle IS a weapon.  That's why when you run somebody over, it's called "assault with a deadly weapon".  What?  You can't hurt someone with a car?  And you don't have to have a gun drawn on you to defend yourself.  If I were dropping bricks off a building and hitting people, the police would be justified to shoot.  In FACT, any criminal act that poses an immediate threat to the life of another person, can be stopped with deadly force.  You can also stop a rape, arson, kidnapping, and other crimes with deadly force.  These are FACTS!  Learn the law and stop being so frigging ignorant.\n\nUSAFCOP...Thank you for your service. Aim High!!!!!!
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Queen Latifah (real name: Dana Elaine Owens, born March 18, 1970) is an American Grammy Award-winning rap artist and singer, and an Academy Award-nominated actress.\n\nEarly life\nLatifah was born in Newark, New Jersey to African-American parents Lancelot Owens (a police officer) and Rita (a high-school art teacher); they divorced when she was eight years old. Her first performance involved singing the number "Home" from the musical, The Wiz, in a high school play. Her stage name, Latifah, means "delicate" and "sensitive" in Arabic. It was given to her when she was eight by her cousin. While in high school, she was a power forward on her basketball team. Her father also gave her lessons in karate and firearms use.\n\nMusic career\nLatifah started her career beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. In 1988, local DJ Mark the 45 King heard a demo version of Latifah's single, "Princess of the Posse", and gave the demo to Fab Five Freddy (who at the time hosted Yo! MTV Raps). Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records. They released Latifah's first album, All Hail the Queen, in (1989); at the time, she was 18. This debut managed to be both a critical and commercial success and was followed by the albums Nature of a Sista and Black Reign, which contained the hit single, U.N.I.T.Y.. After releasing four rap albums (the fourth being Order in the Court, released in 1998), she released a soul/jazz standards album in 2004 called The Dana Owens Album.\n\nActing career\nFrom 1993 to 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a FOX sitcom; she also wrote and performed its theme music. She began her film career as a supporting actress in movies like House Party 2 (1991) and Set It Off (1996).\n\nHer first big role was in the film version of the musical Chicago; her performance as Matron "Mama" Morton received an Academy Award nomination for "Best Supporting Actress". Latifah did not win the Oscar in 2003; however, that year she co-starred with Steve Martin in the film Bringing Down the House, which was a big success at the box office. Since then, she has had both leading and supporting roles in a multitude of films that received varied critical and box office receptions, including Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Taxi, and Beauty Shop.\n\nHer latest film, released in early 2006, is a romantic comedy/drama entitled Last Holiday. Latifah has received some notably positive reviews for the role, including a statement by film critic Richard Roeper that "this is the Queen Latifah performance I've been waiting for ever since she broke into movies" [1].\n\nOther work\nLatifah is a celebrity spokesperson for Cover Girl cosmetics; she has starred in several commercials for the line, as well as a commercial with fellow spokeswoman and singer, Faith Hill. She has also had her own talk show, The Queen Latifah Show, from 1999 to 2001.\n\nOn January 4, 2006, Latifah received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is the first female hip hop artist to do so.\n\nPersonal life\nLatifah's older brother Lance was killed in 1992, in a biking accident involving the motorbike that Latifah had just bought him. She still wears the key to the motorbike around her neck and dedicated Black Reign to him. In 1993, she was the victim of a carjacking, in which a friend of hers was shot. In 1996, she was arrested due to possession of a small amount of marijuana and a hand gun; she was fined and sentenced to two years probation.\n\nIn her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brother's death lead to a bout of depression and drug abuse, which she later recovered from.\n\nBecause of her portrayal of a lesbian in Set It Off and her avoidance of discussing her romantic life, tabloid media sometimes speculate that she is a lesbian. Latifah responded to these rumors in her autobiography by saying: "I
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Easily the two most famous Los Angeles Dodgers in their L.A. history are Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.\n\nKoufax and Drysdale are both Hall of Famers, Koufax was THE  dominant pitcher of the 1960s, better than Gibson or Marichal, who were both awesome in their own right.\n\nDrysdale's HOF credentials are far less impressive than Koufax's, but Drysdale made it to the Hall in, I believe, his 10th year of eligibility.\n\nRoy Campanella never played for the L.A. Dodgers...he was paralyzed in an accident prior to their moving to L.A. in 1958. His last year was with the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1957.\n\nBoth Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson were flash-in-the-pans as Dodgers, Gibson being remembered for a lucky World Series Home Run, replayed endlessly on ESPN (as well as an undeserved MVP award in 1988), and Hershiser is remembered for his pitching dominance in 1988. Neither player is likely to ever make the Hall of Fame (unless Hershiser has one heck of a broadcasting career or something).\n\nbtw, Hershiser was 23-8 in 1988, not 23-1 per a previous post.\n\nFernando Valenzuela is probably the next-most-famous L.A. Dodger in their history...anyone who was a baseball fan in 1981 remembers "Fernando-mania".  His Cy Young award that year was also undeserved (Tom Seaver should have won it).\n\nFernando is also the answer to one of the better trivia questions I've heard...\n\nWhat player had the most career at-bats against (all time strikeout king) Nolan Ryan WITHOUT ever striking out against him... the answer is Fernando Valenzuela, who batted 12 times against Ryan and NEVER struck out!\n\nSteve Garvey would be the next-most-famous L.A. Dodger ever, and his consecutive game playing streak is, I think the N.L. record, but I'm not positive about that.\n\nWell, I just checked...Garvey DOES hold the N.L record for consecutive games played, with 1,207.\n\nThe top 6 consecutive game-playing streaks (only streaks over 1,000):\n\n1. Cal Ripken, Jr.\n2,632\n05-30-1982 to 09-19-1998\n \n\n2. Lou Gehrig\n2,130\n06-01-1925 to 04-30-1939\n \n\n3. Everett Scott\n1,307\n06-20-1916 to 05-05-1925\n \n\n4. Steve Garvey\n1,207\n09-03-1975 to 07-29-1983\n \n\n5. Billy Williams\n1,117\n09-22-1963 to 09-02-1970\n\n\n6. Joe Sewell\n1,103\n09-13-1922 to 04-30-1930\n\n\nGarvey's streak is probably superior to Gehrig's in one respect... During Gehrig's 14 year 'streak' (1925-1939), he only played every inning of every game once, that being in 1931 (but that year, he did play one game in RF, so he never played first during every inning of every game for an entire season, not even once). In every other year, he was replaced in at least one game, often more. There were a total of 69 games during that streak in which Gehrig was replaced, either in the field (66 times) or by a pinch runner (4 times)  or a pinch hitter (8 times).  Sometimes the pinch hitter or pinch runner WAS the substitute first baseman as well, which explains the slight overlap in these numbers.\n\nI'm guessing that Garvey, during his streak, probably played more consecutive innings at first base than Gehrig ever did, but I don't know how many consecutive complete games Garvey played.
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Check out these two websites, they might have some info:\n\nhttp://www.ocpunk.com/\n\nhttp://www.sandiegopunk.com/interviews/sixerinterview.php\n\nAnd here's a story on the SD punk scene that paints a less-that great picture:\n\nhttp://members.aol.com/desperatem1/Road_Trip_Sanx.html
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decades ago\n\nFrom the L.A Times\n\n1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card. \n\n2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.\nhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040119-082933-4484r.htm\n\n3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.\n\n4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers. \n\n5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.\n\n6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.\n\n7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border. \n\n8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.\n\n9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.\n\n10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).\n\n(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)\n\n\nLess than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.\nhttp://www.cis.org\n\n\nOver 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.\n\n\nThe cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]. \n\n29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
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I don't think she died - I googled her name, and nothing current came up, then I checked the Urban Legends website, and again, nothing recent.  That site is really good about ferreting out myths, rumors and real stories.  You can check it out at:\n\nhttp://urbanlegends.about.com/
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I don't have his web address but here's his personal LA Times E-Mail:\n\nt.j.simers@latimes.com\n\nHe does have a biography page which is listed below.
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It's a farse as far as I am concerned. There have been reports about this but we all know how The National Enquirer likes to spread trash. I don't understand why people like to read that smut, but to each his/her own. Anyhoo, try out this link if you want any info on Taylor. It's a main Soul Patrol yahoo group that I am a member of and you can find any info on Tay there. Trust me, it's all accurate as well. Tay's friends' mother is even a member there too. Check it out:
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"The details of her death are not yet known to us. The police will give us results tomorrow afternoon.\n\nFull story at link below
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Depends on how stupid your local law enforcement people are. The Los Angeles Police arrested a man for reading the Bill of Rights at a public rally, said he was spouting inflammatory and seditious propaganda and trying to cause a riot.
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She did break her neck cuz in BHI (BORN HUSSLERS INC.) in their new video do it, do it (poole place) they put out a dedication to her at the end of the video so it is not a rumor in fact you can check it out yourslef at www.myspace.com/bhimusic and look for the poole place video.