"There are drug-traffickers and gang leaders from the Mara Salvatrucha (street gang) there, " Mr Lopez said.
As a result, promiscuous rappers, prosperous dope peddlers and street gang leaders are becoming ever more influential role models.
The incident, however, called attention to threats against the artist's life made in a street gang's videos and posted online in recent months.
Tripi's task force believes the two men seen running from the murder scene were 7th Street Gang leader Efrain "Cheko" Hidalgo and Brandon Jonas.
Even some of those who killed Cardinal Posadas at Guadalajara airport in 1993, in one of Mexico's most puzzling assassinations, bore the tattoos of a Los Angeles street gang.
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On the second day of oral argument, the judges expressed outrage at Jackson's blundering out-of-court statements in which he compared the world's largest software maker to a drug-dealing street gang.
There were cheers and embraces for the temporarily released Balcombe Street gang, responsible for 16 deaths and many injuries, who were recently transferred to an Irish prison from jail in Britain.
Pedro Espinoza, a 19-year-old member of the Hispanic 18th Street Gang, was charged in the killing and could face the death penalty if convicted, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.
In total, 41 members of two drug trafficking rings were indicted in Manhattan, including 33 members of the "Blocc Boyz" street gang, based in the Baruch Houses public housing development on the Lower East Side.
Now, or I should say, again, just when you thought it was safe to bottom-fish in the distressed single-family housing market, maybe for a home for you and your family, along comes the Wall Street gang, again.
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In so doing, he forced Israel to fight a regional foe as if it were a local street gang and so rendered the ultimate result of that war - Israel's first strategic military defeat - a foregone conclusion.
So far, unlike the tourist city of Acapulco to the south, Puerto Vallarta, a beach city in the state of Jalisco, has largely avoided the cartel and street gang related violence that is affecting many other pockets of Mexico.
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The most dangerous are the "18th Street" gang (also known as M-18), and their main rival, the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
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But, it could come down to staying with the regulators of Wall Street than the gang that wants to return to libertarian laissez faire.
Early on, the picture offers some fine, flowing scenes of the gang tearing down the street with all the zip and glee of Truffaut kids, and loping and shoving, angular and energetic, across the basketball court.
Sam Lee Chan-sam steals the show as the cocksure Moon, a young street punk on the edge of the gang culture.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.
"A totally innocent 18 year old youth on the threshold of a promising life was brutally cut down in the street in front of eye witnesses by a racist thuggish gang, " he told Dobson and Norris.
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The UK government recommends that tourists avoid certain parts of Belize City, including George Street and Kraal Road, which have been known to attract gang violence, especially at night.
The girl behind the register warned me to get my car off the street because the police were about to swoop down on the gang of thugs milling around in front of the taco place.
So we're looking for a big gang over here, so we might have to close off the street and have a block party.
It's a long way for the south London-born street artist who started out because he "wanted to be part of that hooded track suit gang thing".
Andrew had been celebrating his cousin's 30th birthday in March 2003 when, in the city's Hanover Street, he bumped into a girl and, despite apologising immediately, was chased by a gang of her friends.
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We have tools to do that, but that doesn't mean sweeping up the kids who are on the street, you know, taking all of the risk being there - put there by the gang leaders to be shot at, to be arrested, to funnel the money to them - those kids are as much victims of the gangs as innocent bystanders are.
He distinguishes between organised crime, driven by drug-trafficking and gang rivalry, which involves a long-term national effort, and more visible daily street violence.
More recently, coders have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, and threatened to release a list of people collaborating with the Zetas, a Mexican drug gang.
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