Unfortunately, incidents like this are all too common in Los Angeles and in other major U.S. cities.
In Compton, California, the Los Angeles police department recently expressed concern over the number of attacks on African American families by Latino gangs within the past decade.
Speaking to one particular incident, the Los Angeles Times reported, “A black family — a mother, three teenage children, and a 10-year-old boy — moved into a little yellow home in Compton over Christmas vacation. When a friend came to visit, four men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a racist epithet, saying black people were barred from the neighborhood, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. They jumped out, drew a gun on him and beat him with metal pipes. It was just the beginning of what detectives said was a campaign by a Latino street gang to force an African American family to leave.”