Community College Class: Gangs and American Rights

Gangs and American rights

Gangs and American rights; 45 pages, 15,520 words, many visuals

Gangs are organizations of the socially excluded.
While most "street organizations" are unsupervised adolescent peer groups, many others have institutionalized in neighborhoods, ghettoes, barrios, favelas, and prisons. Often these persisting gangs become business enterprises within the informal economy. Many share a media-diffused culture and a few are linked to international criminal cartels. Gangs have variable ties to conventional institutions and, in given conditions, assume social, economic, political, religious, or military roles.

United States

Oklahoma City bombing: April 1995

Buffalo Six (aka Lackawanna Six): Lackawanna, NY, arrested in 2002

José Padilla: arrested in 2002 on suspicion of planning to detonate a radiological bomb.

Portland Seven: Oregon: 6/7 arrested 2002

2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting July 4, 2002; two killed, gunman also shot dead.[23]

Beltway sniper attacks in and around Washington, D.C. area, October 2002 [24]

Virginia Jihad Network: 8/11 arrested 2003

Herald Square, New York City: August 2004

2007 Fort Dix attack plot: Arrests made in May 2007 [25]

Colleen LaRose, aka 'Jihad Jane,' Fatima LaRose: arrested October 2009, & Jamie Paulin-Ramirez: arrested March 2010, for recruiting individuals for violent jihad in the West and plotting to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks, for having made a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog.[26][27]

Little Rock recruiting office shooting: Arkansas, June 2009

Fort Hood shooting: TX November 2009

2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: May, 2010 [28]

Farooque Ahmed: arrested October 2010 for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C. metro system stations at Arlington cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House.[29]

The D.C. Five: five U.S. citizens radicalized in the United States, later detained in December 2009 after joining a Pakistani militant group

2010 Portland car bomb plot November 2010 [30]

Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt: February 2013

Boston Marathon bombing: April 2013
Emerson Begolly: sentenced July 16, 2013 to eight years and six months in prison for soliciting others to engage in acts of terrorism within the United States and for using a firearm in relation to an assault on FBI agents.[31]

Dylann Roof: June 17, 2015 Charleston church shooting in South Carolina
2015 Chattanooga shootings: Military recruiting center, July 2015[32]

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik: December 2, 2015 San Bernardino shooting in San Bernardino County, California