A gang comprised of Kurds has gotten so far out of hand that the Nashville Tn. Metro Police haven taken the extraordinary approach of petitioning the courts to bar suspected gang members from meeting in specified public areas.
"Metro police on Tuesday filed a civil lawsuit to wrest control of an area in South Nashville from the clutches of the Kurdish Pride gang by banning members from congregating in a 1.47-mile “safety zone.”
The department is targeting 24 of what they call the “worst of the worst” members of the gang, hoping a judge will ban them from publicly gathering in a zone that encompasses part of an area known as Little Kurdistan and includes Paragon Mills and Providence Park. The injunction lawsuit is the fruit of a three-year effort to combat gangs for detectives to build their case and attorneys to try and bullet-proof it from legal challenges. The injunction is the first of its kind ever filed in Tennessee, but a tactic used successfully for years in other states like California.
“Our police department will not sit idly by when a street gang threatens the peace of our community,” said Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson at a news conference held in Paragon Mills, the site detectives say hosted Kurdish Pride gang meetings. “We want to give this park back to the citizens.”
Police say Kurdish Pride members were involved in at least one murder, multiple beatings and shootings, drug dealing, illegal weapons and vandalism. Incidents include the 2006 attempted murder of a Metro Parks Police officer and multiple graffiti messages threatening a Metro Police Gang Unit detective."
This has apparently been long in coming. While searching for some background for this case, I came across this article from 2007:
"Federal prosecutors appear to have opened a case against four members of the Kurdish Pride Gang who were recently indicted in state court for conspiring to kill rival drug dealers and possibly a Metro Parks Police officer, court documents filed Thursday show.
As part of their case against the four KPG members — Ako Nejad, 22, Aso Nejad, 21, Delsosh Ahmed, 22, and Nechirvan Yahya, 22 — the Davidson County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday filed with the criminal court hundreds of pages of documents outlining the state’s proof that the four men were involved in a failed hit on a rival drug dealer, as well as the shooting of Metro Parks Officer James Spray......"
When reading similar articles concerning this, the common exculpating theme kept popping up - The Kurds, having come from a war-torn region, having trouble assimilating to life in the US, and being threatened by others in their new home, must have felt that they no choicer but to form gangs for their own protection.
As the proponents of Multiculturalism would remind us, Cultural Enrichment is a good thing.
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