a while back you seemed to have some knowledge of the antics of armenians in the LA area so i thought you might find this interesting - there was this video some years back of a couple gangbangers who were fighting for assad in syria, from looking into it turns out they were armenians from syria who were deported back there after getting involved with gangs in LA and doing time in prison. in the video they came off like latino gangbangers, spanish peppered in their sentences etc (1/2)
(2/2) there was a vice article with some more info that I found interesting, in the california prison system people are grouped up in terms of white with white, brown with brown, black with black etc, and armenians usually get lumped in with brown so they look to mexican mafia for protection, and that ends up being reflected in affiliations outside of prison too
I think of how like Laotians and Hmong ended up almost apprenticed to existing ethnic crime apparatuses, and control of prisons and the inevitability you’ll end up there is how La Eme works, but the Armenian Mafia being subordinate to them would’ve been a surprise in the 2000s.