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Gang members admit to firebombing black families in LA housing development

LOS ANGELES - Members of a Latino street gang have admitted to carrying out a racially motivated firebombing attack on black families in a Los Angeles housing project, prosecutors announced Thursday.

Three men belonging to the Big Hazard gang will plead guilty to federal hate crimes stemming from the 2014 attack, according to written plea agreements. In exchange for the confessions, prosecutors for U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna agreed to seek some leniency for the men when they are sentenced. Each faces more than 30

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