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...
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