When Mom wears one set of gang colors and Dad wears another, conflict over how to raise the baby can cause irreconcilable differences. At least that’s what happened for one Commerce City, Colo., couple.
Commerce City police were called to a disturbance Saturday at a Hollywood Video, where a man reportedly was harassing his ex-girlfriend, who was working there. The man knocked over a computer and a magazine stand and yelled obscenities at her, witnesses said.
He left the store before police arrived.
When officers questioned the woman, they learned that the two had been together for four years and were the parents of a child.
When police asked the woman why the two had separated, she said they have “different ideas about how the baby should be raised,” according to a police report.
When officer Daniel Swift asked the woman what she meant by that, she said that the two belong to different street gangs.
“They could not agree on which gang the baby would claim,” Swift said.
Joseph Manzanares, 19, was arrested later at his home. He pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, and a harassment charge against him was dismissed.
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