The last three of Edin Alex Enamorado’s acolytes who emulated his physically aggressive brand of activism and followed him into jail as a result have been released from custody, after spending the previous 364 days incarcerated.
Six of his followers and Edin Enamorado had a part in two separate assaults on September 3, 2023 in Pomona, one against a security guard the activists claimed was wrongfully hassling street vendors and another against a man who exchanged angry words with them when their protest at that city’s police headquarters prevented him from being able to lodge a police report. The security guard was chemically maced, punched, kicked, beaten and knocked to the ground. The second man was challenged to a fight, threatened with death and forced to kneel on the ground and beg to be spared the beating his attackers were preparing to subject him to. On September 24, 2013, the same seven who were involved in the Pomona confrontations and an eighth member of the Enamorados were present in Victorville for a protest against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department when the group set upon a bystander who had objected to the protesters surrounding the car in which he and his wife were riding, preventing them from leaving the area. He was punched, kicked, knocked to the ground and chemically maced.
Edin Enamorado, who most often goes by his middle name Alex, and his followers do not consider themselves to be criminals but avenging angels. Alex Enamorado has stated in numerous forums that North America rightfully belongs to the indigenous people of the continent and that the European oppressors and occupiers have usurped their land and are violating their human rights with the imposition of their capitalistic economic system. He is committed, as are those who follow his example, to standing up for La Raza. In recent years, the cause he and his followers – the Enamorados – have most often taken up is that of street vendors, whose rights and ability to make a living for themselves is being abridged unjustly and illegally, they maintain, by competing economic interests such as brick and mortar commercial establishments and restaurants who are being assisted by equally mendacious security guards, code enforcement officers, police officers, city governments, law enforcement agencies, public health officials and the like through personal confrontation, efforts to remove vendors and their vehicles from parking lots and the public right-of-way such as streets, sidewalks and parkways by enforcing county and city codes and ordinances and laws. In their efforts to protect street vendors, the Enamorados have sought them out, providing them with their phone numbers and arming them with pepper spray or chemical mace, instructing them to call for assistance if they are confronted by citizens; business owners or operators proximate to where the vendors have set up their carts, tables or vehicles; health department inspectors or officers; code enforcement officers; other authorities; or police officers. The Enamorados will then respond, singly or in multiple numbers and occasionally en masse. While the Enamorados have for the most part shown discretion and drawn the line at being merely verbally confrontational with police officers or sheriff’s deputies, they tended toward being more physical in dealing with others, intimidating health department inspectors and code enforcement officers and becoming physically confrontational with security officers employed by commercial business owners who objected to vendors operating from their parking lots or on the sidewalk or street in front of or near their places of business. Continue reading
One Year Later, Enamorado Remains Jailed As The Last Three Of His Codefendants Are Released
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