By John Thompson
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third and final installment in a multi-part series written by a former gang prosecutor. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. We apologize for the delay in publishing this final installment.)
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So what does a gangster actually do from day to day? The answer is a combination of the routine things that most people like to do – go to a party, try to make friends with a pretty girl, and watch a football game. But also, there are things that greatly differentiate the gangster, not the least of which is selling and doing drugs, and hunting and killing rival gangsters. The following is a true story about the latter activity, killing rivals.
We are in the barrio. We’ll call it Gang A’s territory. A number of Gang A’s members are helping a 10-year-old we’ll call Pedro fix his bike