Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies say gangs targeting "young Latinos" operate within department - CBS News

"There's been multiple occasions where … they say, 'Hey, we got a guy that has a gun and he's running from us.' In reality that person never had a gun," one deputy said. "And they would say, oh, it was a phantom gun. It was something that really wasn't there."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-sheriffs-deputies-gangs-young-latinos/

Proud Boys ex-member details what happens within the group's ranks - CNN

Why do men join the Proud Boys? "Most of it is just to fight," Schultz said. "They want to join a gang. So they can go fight antifa and hurt people that they don't like, and feel justified in doing it."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/25/us/ex-proud-boys-member/index.html

Sentencing memo provides a revealing glimpse inside a neo-Nazi street-brawling gang - Daily Kos

For reasons that aren't precisely clear, the media and a number of Republican officials have been loudly proclaiming the danger posed by radical far-left "antifa" protesters.  Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has even proposed legislation that would brand "antifa" a "terrorist organization" as well as a "hate group."....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/23/1873810/-Sentencing-memo-provides-a-revealing-glimpse-inside-a-neo-Nazi-street-brawling-gang

Trump’s pick for ICE director: I can tell which migrant children will become gang members by looking into their eyes - POLITICO

"I've looked at them and I've looked at their eyes, Tucker — and I've said that is a soon-to-be MS-13 gang member. It's unequivocal."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/16/mark-morgan-eyes-ice-director-1449570

MS-13 is a street gang, not a drug cartel – and the difference matters - The Conversation US

Trump justice officials portray the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as a powerful drug cartel staffed with criminal undocumented immigrants. That's a dangerous mistake if you actually want to prevent violence. ....
https://theconversation.com/ms-13-is-a-street-gang-not-a-drug-cartel-and-the-difference-matters-92702

Trump admin claims ICE is targeting so-called 'bad hombres,' but the numbers say otherwise - Daily Kos

Campaign Action Multiple times this past spring and summer, Donald Trump claimed that he watched Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13," saying in May that "the people are dancing and they're waving and they're looking out their windows and they're waving at the ICE people."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1788217

“The Trump Investigation” (Pod Save America podcast)

Trump hits a bump in the road on his way to the Nobel Peace Prize, Republicans try their hardest to make 2018 about immigrant gang members, and 700 Trump investigation stories break in one day. Then Jason Kander joins Jon and Dan to talk about the midterms and the new season of Majority 54, and Inimai Chettiar of the Brennan Center for Justice talks about the prison reform bill moving through Congress.
Interview:
https://crooked.com/podcast/the-trump-investigation/

Were Henry’s Civil Rights Violated? - ProPublica

A Department of Homeland Security watchdog is looking into the case of a Long Island high school student who informed on the gang MS-13 and was marked for deportation. ....
https://www.propublica.org/article/were-henry-civil-rights-violated

A Betrayal - ProPublica

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death. ....
https://features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betrayal-ms13-gang-police-fbi-ice-deportation/

MS-13 is a street gang, not a drug cartel – and the difference matters - The Conversation US

Trump justice officials portray the Salvadoran gang MS-13 as a powerful drug cartel staffed with criminal undocumented immigrants. That's a dangerous mistake if you actually want to prevent violence. ...
https://theconversation.com/ms-13-is-a-street-gang-not-a-drug-cartel-and-the-difference-matters-92702

MS-13 is ‘taking over the school,’ one teen warned before she was killed - The Washington Post

The old minivan appeared near the school on a Tuesday morning, its Illinois plates the only thing out of place in the blue-collar suburbs of central Long Island. But as backpack-toting teenagers passed by on their way to Brentwood High, the van’s doors suddenly swung open. Out sprang members of the violent street gang MS-13, armed with baseball bats....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ms-13-is-taking-over-the-school-one-teen-warned-before-she-was-killed/2018/03/09/93ed7c9c-2083-11e8-86f6-54bfff693d2b_story.html