A Riot in Marion, Alabama...

300 people fight in the town square in Marion, Alabama... The press is doing it's best to make people think this is a feud between clans of white Hillbillies rather than the Afro-American Crips and Bloods gangs fighting. I don't know too many details. but I think it very likely all the people fighting were Black or the headline would something about White "racists" attack Blacks. Marion, Alabama is over 60% Black, Blood and/or Crip gang members were involved in the fight, and the fight was on Martin Luther King Memorial Street.


Members of feuding families jailed after Ala. riot

MARION, Ala. — Two feuding families and their friends lined opposite sides of a small-town Alabama street and hurled rocks, tools and pieces of wood at each other, striking the police chief with a crowbar, in a riot rooted in a disagreement that began years ago with schoolchildren...

Marion Mayor says situation is calm, under control in west Alabama town

Long said up to 300 people, mostly members of two feuding families, were involved in the disturbance at Marion's municipal complex, just off the county courthouse square...

Investigation continues into Marion's melee

...“We’re doing an investigation to see what we come up with,” Buford said in a news conference just hours after the melee on Martin Luther King Memorial Street....

One of the men who allegedly threatened Walker’s son had three teardrop tattoos under his eyes. Said Walker, “He told me he’d put two more under there, one for my son and one for the other boy. He said he’ll show them what those tattoos are all about.”

Gang specialists in Chicago say teardrop tattoos have different meanings. Under the eyes, the tattoos can mean the person wearing them killed someone in or out of prison. The tattoos also are gang identifiers of the Crips or Bloods, depending on which side of the face the tattoos are worn — left for the Crips and right for the Bloods...