Arceneaux said she plans to reach out to the family and get the City Council involved.
“We need to address these issues,” she said. “Because if they continue to fester like this, then it can spread to the whole city.”
Latino gang attacks on African Americans have occurred periodically since the 1990s in Compton.
Johnathan Quevedo, a security guard and college student, said he was shot and wounded by four Latino gang members in 2007.
Quevedo, who has African American features he inherited from his Panamanian mother, said he was walking to the Metro to take a train to his job at the downtown Marriott Hotel one morning when four Latino youths with shaved heads jumped from an SUV and ran at him. One shot him in the head, and Quevedo spent the next year recuperating.
“They didn’t know who I was. I didn’t know who they were,” Quevedo said. “I got shot because of my skin color, because I’m a black male.”
Article Appeared @http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/25/local/la-me-0126-compton-20130126