Toonerville Gang gives Glendale/Los Angeles the middle finger

If you keep up with news on Los Angeles gangs, you’ve heard about the Toonerville gang. This from the Glendale New-Press (“Curfew put on gang members,” Veronica Rocha, 28 January 2009): A judge tentatively ruled Wednesday to allow an injunction that restricts certain Toonerville gang members from engaging in gang-related activities near the Glendale-Los Angeles border. Alleged Toonerville gang members who were named in the injunction will be under a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. daily curfew and are forbidden to be involved in graffiti or drug-related activities, use lookouts, trespass, loiter or possess weapons within the safety zones. The three-year injunction defines a safety zone that covers a 4.5-square-mile area that includes Verdugo Road, the Glendale (2) Freeway, south Glendale Boulevard into Los Angeles . . . But [Judge David] Yeffe did not allow a provision in the injunction that forbid the alleged gang members named from going to the Chevy Chase Park and Palmer Park along . . .

The Toonerville Gang just gave Los Angeles and Glendale the equivalent of the middle finger. At Palmer Park, Glendale, this Saturday morning, I saw a rather large (see photos) tagging of the wall surrounding the basketball court. Two Glendale police cars were parked along the street – I guess they were making a police report. The tagging appeared to have an impact on the neighborhood. I saw a father/son walking into the park. The father saw the tagging and turned around to leave – I’m not sure if they eventually returned to the park.