The recent attacks demonstrate that despite rising rents and a growing number of luxury apartments, restaurants and other amenities, gangs continue to hold the poorest and most marginalized of the people who live and work in the neighborhood in their grip.
Federal prosecutors expanded a case against the MS-13 gang, securing an indictment that charges nine new defendants and implicates the gang in four murders.The gang typically doesn’t demand large sums of money. “If I tax someone $10 a week, it’s a small amount” to the victim, said Lt. Michael Ling, who oversees Rampart gang officers. “But if you’re taxing 100 people $10 a week, you see it starts to add up.”The demands are backed by violence.
In September, MS-13 members were accused of stabbing another transgender woman nearly to death in the park. Still, Hernandez reasoned she wasn’t in danger because she didn’t owe the gang any money. Around 9 p.m., witnesses would tell the police, a white Honda Accord pulled to the curb of Wilshire Boulevard, which cuts through the park. Two men and a woman got out. The driver stayed in the car.
Donoban Fonseca, 24, whose nickname is “El Stinky,” is charged with extorting and attempting to murder Hernandez and the woman attacked weeks earlier. He has pleaded not guilty. His lawyer, Frank Bazadier, said the attacks were “a very unfortunate event to a very marginalized group of individuals.” He declined to discuss the facts of the case.
“There’s this shaming, this mentality of, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe you do that. Why don’t you just get a job?’” Crayton said. “If you don’t have papers, a Social Security number, a California ID, you don’t have a lot of choices.” Working out of MacArthur Park — or any park, for that matter — is far more dangerous than working out of a bar or a club, Crayton said. “You’re exposed. You’re dodging police. You can’t have the same conversation in a park that you can have in a bar. You can’t assess the client.”As the shuttering of the Silver Platter disrupted the equilibrium of the park’s underground economy, the attacks on transgender women gave rise to new tensions in a new setting.
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