When Residents Insert Themselves Into Gang Affairs

Cautionary tales from Southeast Los Angeles County

The Big Story in Southern California this week is Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez’s since-deleted social media post imploring gang members to push back against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. This wannabe home girl knows enough about the ‘hood to get her mouth in trouble.

(Shout out to Bill Melugin with Fox News for breaking the story)

Cynthia Gonzalez, Vice Mayor of Cudahy

Last week, Gonzalez posted a social media video of (a presumably intoxicated) herself calling on 18th Street and Florencia 13 to act as a line of defense against ICE raids. Here’s the highlights:

Not for nothing, but I wanna know where all the Cholos are at in Los Angeles. 18th Street, Florencia, where’s the leadership at? Because you guys are all about territory and this is 18th Street; this is Florencia. You guys tag everything up claiming hood and now that your hood is being invaded by the biggest gang there is, there ain’t a peep out of you.

Talk about monumentally idiotic commentary from an elected official. She is asking two of LA’s most notorious and violent gangs to put in work against ICE. Gonzalez’s bio allegedly claims she possesses a bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara, two master’s degrees from UC Los Angeles, and an educational doctorate from UC Los Angeles.

An educational doctorate is widely regarded as a Fake Doctorate; hence she will be referred to as “dr.” Gonzalez. In any event, if in fact dr. Gonzalez possesses these degrees—someone please check the paperwork—she is an embarrassment to the once-fine University of California.

But dr. Gonzalez had more to say:

It’s everyone else who’s not about the gang life that’s out there protesting and speaking up…We’re out there like fighting our turf, protecting our turf, protecting our people and like where you at?…Dude: They’re running amok up in your, on your streets and in your city. And peep. When the big gang guns come in, nothing but like quiet and we’re out; here, the regular ones that have never been jumped in, out here calling things out. Trying to organize people, trying to do the thing. So don’t be trying to claim no block, no nothing if you’re not showing up right now and trying to help out and organize.

The FBI has reportedly met with dr. G. Perhaps they gave her a Tarasoff Warning because the epic buffoonery gets worse as this Jaina does the talk-to-the-hand-if-you-don’t-understand routine to active gang members:

I don’t want to hear a peep out of you once they’re gone, trying to claim this is my block. This was not your block; you weren’t even here helping out. So whoever is the leadership over there, just get your members in order.”

You read that right: dr. Cynthia Gonzalez just called out the Mexican Mafia. La eMe is at the top of the Totem Pole for street gangs like 18th Street and Florencia 13. One might ask: Does dr. Gonzalez even know who the Mexican Mafia is? Based on the tenor of her comments, one has to suspect she does.

If you’re asking yourself “Where the hell is Cudahy?” you’re not alone. Cudahy is one of countless (largely indiscernible) cities in Southeast Los Angeles County on the Interstate 710 corridor. Bell, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Maywood, and South Gate are among Cudahy’s peers. Poorly run cities? Check. Corrupt public officials? Double Check. (Brown) Identity politics? Triple check.

Gonzalez’s bio says she spent most of her professional career in Los Angeles Unified School District. This is perhaps the worst public school district in the country. Sadly, the folks being under-educated in LAUSD are her own people, who then end up dropping out (or graduating with a worthless degree), running the streets, and in prison. Some might argue she is The Problem.

Lucky from the YouTube Channel HoodStocks explained the streets’ reaction to dr. Gonzalez’s comments

I hear a lot of residents—non-affiliates—hollering on social media platforms: Aren’t gang members supposed to protect the neighborhood from ICE? Let me ask you that question my Gs: No. Is there individual gang members out there protesting, yes! But is it an organized thing within the neighborhood? Absolutely not bro! Because that’s when indictments come down and hit the neighborhoods. They hit everybody and their mama—people who had nothing to do with the decision to organize and go protest. So we got to be mindful and responsible if you are from a neighborhood…Let me break this shit down to you in a little bit. When I got jumped into my neighborhood, it didn’t say in the fineprint that we were insurance policies for individuals deemed illegal…I’m talking about the tacqueros, the elote man, so on and so forth….

It gets better:

Yes, do we want to stand up and…But not every single gang member is on that Tip, because why? Because we already at it with each other. And so now you want motherfuckers to put their shit down and provide unity within the community and it doesn’t always happen like that when you got a bunch of wild animals running all over the place…The same people that are always calling the cops on gang members; the same people that hate these bald-headed motherfuckers hanging out in front of their house, or on the street, or in front of the liquor store, or writing on the wall, now they calling for them. C’mon, my dogs: Make it make sense.

Lucky sums it up perfectly: Getting active against ICE at the behest of a Resident like dr. (vice Mayor) Gonzalez is a great way to get named in a RICO indictment. dr. Cynthia Gonzalez epitomizes everything that is wrong in Los Angeles and California. Unless this one-party state changes, don’t be surprised if dr. Cynthia Gonzalez is soon on the fast track to Sacramento or Washington. Or maybe a United States Penitentiary.