An investigation in Los Angeles has found that the Hispanic gang Florencia 13 hunted black gang members, often shooting black passersby if they couldn't find any with gang affiliations. Florencia 13 is one of a number of Hispanic gangs that have been fingered by cops in LA, where there is a race war going on among gangs (the violence goes both ways), for specifically targeting blacks.

There were even instances in which Florencia 13 leaders ordered killings of black gangsters and then, when the intended victim couldn't be located, said "Well, shoot any black you see," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.

"In certain cases some murders were just purely motivated on killing a black person," Baca said.

Authorities say there were 20 murders among more than 80 shootings documented during the gang's rampage in the hardscrabble Florence-Firestone neighborhood, exceptional even in an area where gang violence has been commonplace for decades. They don't specify the time frame or how many of the killings were racial.

As far as gang killings go, racial ones are still very much the exception, even in LA. Hispanics and blacks are far more likely to kill their own. Oh, that's a relief!