LA Times on Soboba Killings

From the LA Times. An excerpt:

San Jacinto Mayor Jim Ayres and the City Council asked the tribe to withdraw an application to annex more than 500 acres of land for a hotel and casino complex until the violence is quelled.

But Salgado, 65, is having none of it.

No one, he says, has the right to tell Indians how to run their sovereign nations.

“Why didn’t Stone come to me man to man and say that? And who is the mayor of San Jacinto to tell us what to do?” he asked. “Where were these people when we had nothing? Now that we are self-sufficient, it makes them fearful.”

One thought on “LA Times on Soboba Killings

  1. Original Pechanga June 11, 2008 / 9:45 pm

    People are ‘fearful’ that they will get hit by stray bullets. Nobody is fearful that the Soboba’s are self sufficient.

    The sheriff’s did a good job in stopping potential mass killings.

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