A park in PARK SLOPE Brooklyn, NY, has turned into a hangout for an international gang called THE LATIN KINGS. They are the ruination of what once was a civilized and rather elegant part of town. The NYPD is giving them some heat but why on earth are we having to deal with a bunch of thugs who call themselves “a tribe?” Something is radically wrong with this whole thing.
The handball courts behind Junior High School 51 in Washington Park near Fourth Ave. and Third St. draw about 30 gang members, sources and residents said.
The “tribe” claims they are merely using the park as a place to meet rather than to battle rival groups like the primitive and stupid Crips and the disgusting and aimless Trinitarios.
“We just chill and have fun and play ball,” said an 18-year-old King one night last week. “We don’t do nothing. My tribe is chill.”
The fact that they don’t do nothing is right — not in the usual sense. They don’t work unless it’s to sell drugs or rob people. Otherwise, he the tribal leader is right when he says, “We don’t do nothing.” How did this happen to polite society — why is the USA burdened with these miscreants? Thank you LBJ.
Cops started cruising around Washington Park and along Fourth and Fifth Aves. this summer, eying teens and young men sporting King colors – a yellow bandanna, a black-and-yellow wrist band or beads hanging from the neck.
“We can’t stop them for playing handball, but we see them doing anything more, we lock them up,” one police source said.
“They definitely have felt more comfortable hanging out in the park during hot weather months, and we did what we could to make them uncomfortable by arresting them for minor offenses and by stopping and questioning at every opportunity.”
Late last month, a few blocks from the park, cops arrested a 17-year-old for carrying an air pistol that looked like a real handgun, commonly used by thugs to commit robberies. The teen was carrying the Latin King’s bylaws and wearing gang colors.
The News has found six other Brooklyn parks and playgrounds in the past month where gangs have made themselves at home while residents stay away.
Parents had complained that the Park Slope Playground on Lincoln Place was filled with young men calling themselves TNG – Top Notch Gentleman – smoking marijuana and drinking beer in front of little kids.
Cops said the TNG members were a group of harmless guys from the neighborhood but, the Kings, while quiet, still pose a bigger threat.
Dogwalkers and parents at Washington Park said they were unaware of any gang activity there.
The Kings deny any wrong-doing — they say they are “chil” but the truth is that they are useless drug dealers and pimps and thieves — they should set adrift in the Arctic Ocean.
dear damien i have chilled in park slope for months since november of 2011 and i have seen plenty of kings come and go with no problems. i am not implying that i may be one but i am not saying that i am not either. in anycase you deem these kids as drug dealers, pimps and thieves but in all honesty that is just a small group of kings. the media makes kings look like a bunch of hooligans because that’s what the media does. now i go to college and i work in a hospital. im on my way to getting into med school as well. now i shall retract my statement from before and admit to you sir that i am a latin king. so please think before you report or atleast do more research before you criticize a whole nation for the crimes of only a few. sincerely king priest.
Sorry but I hope I never have to get treatment from a doctor who used belong to a “tribe” — that’s not normal.
I am a latin king I help the homeless
I go to college for Social Justice I don’t believe in abusing the weak if you really don’t know nothing about Latin Kings don’t speak about us and don’t go by what the media says. This people have nothing better to do but to put bad names in us.