No – the Crosby victim wasn’t killed because she photo-bombed her murderers

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• This rings true.

  My SAPD sources indicated that they were "searching" cell phones. I assumed it was Robles. But, this makes more sense.

  This was absolutely a HATE crime. a violent attack on an innocent individual.

• S.O.P. - blame the dead guy.

• I am watching channel three.

  I am disgusted by the mayor and the council shamelessly exploiting this event. Note to Benavides: SOMEONE DIED.

  Then Correa shows up, unprepared, speaking like tenth grade Century HS student. This dude went to UCLA????? Save he money man. Not only was he as disingenuous as a Harbor Blvd. streetwalker, he could not get is point across in SIMPLE ENGLISH. Seriously, I don't know if this State Senator is sick or stupid. He could not annunciate!

  The City Manager thanked "MR. CHASE" for the five grand, not the merchants, which tells you he is scared sh!tless business will be down.

  Heres and idea: If you are Asian: BOYCOTT DTSA!

  • Oh shut up. Business will not be down-maybe the stupid, already down sales, 4th street will suck even more-but not the rest if the downtown! Oh, did everyone say, "bye bye" to Sam of the former Saint Theresa's crap store? Closed! Haha! The Chase's are not scared! It's full steam ahead. You can't stop what's coming! Quit your bitching and move away! The city has been resurrected and not by Latinos! The city took a nose dive straight to a 3rd world country because of them.

    • Can you please let me know who The Chase's are. I don't know who all the "players" in this story are. Thanks

      • They are the landlords who have been trying to gentrify Downtown Santa Ana.

        • Pedroza, you are the biggest misuser and uneducated person when it comes to the term gentrification but like many who have studied it, more times then not it is actually a good thing. Here is a story about it from someone a bit more informed then yourself.
          http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-gentrification-may-be-losing-its-stigma?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=

        • Gentrification has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses. Displacement happens when long-time or original neighborhood residents move from a gentrified area because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes. http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/healthtopics/gentrification.htm

          In recent years, in-town Atlanta neighborhoods have experienced transformations associated with gentrification such as increased property taxes, displacement of the poor, and heightened racial tensions. As a consequence, Atlanta is discovering that gentrification is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, city boosters, including politicians, often clamor for more gentrification because it raises tax revenues by replacing low-income residents with middle- and upper-income residents. On the other hand, this displacement can create havoc for poorer, often minority residents. Indeed, while gentrification may be good for the city coffers, it is bad for many residents.
          http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/apr03/indexthree.html

    • I especially like how they repeatedly refer to "back when it was so dangerous" you couldn't walk down the street. Yeah, That was THIRTY years ago. Most of the young adults KILLING EACH other weren't even alive.

      The same business cycle that allowed dozens of bars in a small area will clense it as well, when insurance, rent and ancillary costs spike. Full steam ahead all right, I've watched this all over California.

  • Go ahead and boycott, nobody would notice.

• Still confused why everyone thinks this was a hate crime?

  • I think it was. Mainly because on the video you can hear one of the attackers scream: "Gook" as she kicked Pham to death.

    But that's just me.

    I am concerned that a guy like Vince Sariemento, who went to Foothill High School because his Mother was afraid to send her "Piquito" to Santa Ana High, explain to us oabout urban living. Total BULLSHIT. He is a slave to CHASE.

    • I think it is just you Carpetbagger. 20 year old Gorditas do not know the reference "gook". Do they?

      • EXACTLY!!..that's a word viet nam vets and someones PARENTS said...AND YES...THIS IS A HATE CRIME NO DOUBT!!.......YES IT SURE WILL HURT BUSSINESSES!!!!!

        • No, it won't and it hasn't.

• Drove by the Crosby just now - it was closed. The memorial was lighted nicely - one news crew - 10 to 15 people there.

  • Who cares.

    • why you r anonymous....your a chicken shiptr...lol..BUUKCK..BUKKK..lol.....get real, who CRES about YOU!!...its NOT AL ABOUT YOU!!..its someone that was murdered..and shut up ur dumb assho...IT WILL HURT BUSSINESSES>>>IDOT..someones ..or somebody,killed..and are still AT LARGE.....IDOT!!..WHO CRES ABOUT YOR ASS!!...lol

• People are attached to their phones and the apps like it a vital organ.

  I wouldn't doubt this girl(s) were pissed at the accidental photo bomb cause I have seen people reaction about pictures.

  Another reason to become fumed stupidly, she was a very fit and attractive person and by the physical description of the suspect she might have got more upset of the photo bomb because she was a hater.

  10 years ago I would go to original mikes and maybe less than half of those attending were gorditos/gorditas, now it is like 80%

• What a senseless crime, a person is beaten to death just because she messes up a picture? The monsters that did this are a real danger to humanity and must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and be deprived of freedom for as long as they live...

• Hate crime or not. These individuals are animals. They are gutless cowards. I put my money on they wouldn't have the balls to fight someone on equal terms. Thus, I bet there not going to have the balls to turn themselves in. I prey the image of the victim how they each saw her as she layed there is forever etched in there mind.

  • The Crosby club nights cater to Asians, which means that there were probably 20+ Asians standing outside the Crosby and another 70+ inside who stood by and did not intervene. Against three women and two men, those were been formidable odds to save Kim Pham's life. Do you call them gutless cowards too, or is that term you reserve for Latinos? There is a need to learn the facts. Failures on all sides. Sadly, one person paid the highest price. Racists will use this as an excuse to air their long-standing hatreds against Mexicans, but that is the real gutless cowardice and the real hate crime.

• This crime was done by punk kids and they should spend the rest of their youth in prison.

  • Robin Cook, Are you serious? One of the women was 25 years old with a five year old son. The other, arraigned today is 27. Most people are well on their way by than. These weren't sixteen year old chola's selling weed on the corner (sorry Michele). These were grown women.

• long time gg resident..years ago..i can till you all...look out..u fkd with the wrong people....and cops aren't catchin the fkn murderer.....k...