COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler should join caused a public disturbance that resulted in the father's arrest, Commerce City police said Thursday.
On Saturday, Joseph Manzanares stormed into the Hollywood Video store where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over several video displays and even a computer, Commerce City police Sgt. Joe Sandoval said.
After he ran out of the store, police were called and the 19-year-old was arrested at his home
His girlfriend told police that they had been arguing about the upbringing of their son and which gang he should belong to. The teen mother, who is black, is a member of the Crips. Manzanares is Hispanic and belongs to the Westside Ballers gang, the woman said.
"They have different ideas on how the baby should be raised. Basically, she said they cannot agree on which gang the baby would 'claim,'" Sandoval said.
Manzanares was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, and domestic violence. He was transported to the Adams County Detention Facility.
On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was sentenced to a year of probation. The misdemeanor harassment charge was dropped.
I hope these two love birds get this straightened out, I would hate to see their child growing up without any direction in life.
(This story is actually very old, but I just heard about it today, and I am pretty sure it wasn't posted on here, but if it was, please feel free to remove it)
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This reminds me of the article in the Darwin Awards, about a mother who knifed her daughter, on Mother's Day, in a debate on who was the better mother.
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Damn but it can sure fuck up a kid's life if you can't get him in the right gang early enough and he's forced to join one of those low-class crews.
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Why the Crips or the Westside Ballers when we all know that MS13 is much better for the kid's future.
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MS13? Please, the Bloods is where this kid should be aiming for admission.
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- Sean Hannity Forums user Avi
"And BTW the concept of carbon based life is only a hypothesis based on the abiogensis theory, and there is no clear evidence for it."
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Don't be ridiculous! They need to be joining an up-and-coming gang, like the Gangaroos (as endorsed by Bob Saget).
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I think it was posted. I remember hearing about it at work awhile back.
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Let's get serious people. This is N&P. Get that kid a Harley and he can join the Angels. I know people.
Seriously... Wow. I mean, what do you say about this that isn't blatantly obvious?
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4 year old toddler.... 19-year-old father.... Do the math. A license wouldn't do much good if these arseholes begin spawning before they have even decided about their own future.
I read the subject, and thought "Ok, that's normal enough", then I read the article. I don't know whether I should laugh or cry, it's so pathetic. Don't they want something better for their child, so that their son doesn't end up dead (possibly like his father) because of gangs?
[R_H] wrote:Don't they want something better for their child, so that their son doesn't end up dead (possibly like his father) because of gangs?
That's probably the point a parent would try to make to its offspring so they left their gangs and tried to lead a life with an actual future.... Except that the angsty gangster teenagers are the parents this time around.
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That is the worst gang I could ever think of for that kid to join.
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This is pretty old, but what the hell, it's still funny.
"The 4th Earl of Hereford led the fight on the bridge, but he and his men were caught in the arrow fire. Then one of de Harclay's pikemen, concealed beneath the bridge, thrust upwards between the planks and skewered the Earl of Hereford through the anus, twisting the head of the iron pike into his intestines. His dying screams turned the advance into a panic."'
