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Scared for her four children, Medina went inside the house and called her husband, Jorge Saldana, 30, who was at a nearby laundromat washing clothes.

He was about 13, he remembers, when he was jumped into his gang, and the older guys took him under their wing, giving him clothes and shoes.

They care for our children, build our homes, dig our ditches, trim our trees, clean our homes, hotels and businesses, wash our dishes, pick our crops, sew our clothes.

It made showering difficult because it was not to get wet and he feared catching it on his clothing and bed sheets.

Another handcuffed on the curb outside a Ross clothing store in Bell Gardens.