The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 11, 1980-Page 9
Los Angeles punk
rockers accused of
new wave of violence
LOS ANGELES (AP)-Tagging
themselves with names like "Fear"
and performing numbers with titles like
"Homicide," punk rock bands have
traditionally inspired violent behavior
among their leather and chain-clad
fans on the dance floor.
But while the cuts and bruises are to
be expected after a night of "slam
dancing," it stunned fans and
authorities alike when Linda Nichols, a
23-year-old Hollywood receptionist, was
knifed in the back.
HERS WAS THE first of two
stabbings blamed on punks in the past
month, and they highlight a swelling
wave of violence from organized punk
gangs marauding through beach
communities south of here.
Police say a limousine driver was
stabbed and seriously wounded by a
gang of eight punks carrying
switchblades in the affluent resort
community of Newport Beach two
weeks ago.,
Officers say punks have an
intelligence network to determine
where the parties are and then crash
them, smashing furniture and
terrorizing party-goers with a variety
of weapons.
"THE THREAT OF punk violence
has been around for a long time but we
didn't get too concerned until this
stabbing incident," said Newport
Beach officer Rich Long. "These
punks are something else. They showed
no remorse at all about the stabbing.
They didn't give a hoot that the guy
almost died."
Punk gangs also are sezing on slam
dancing as an excuse for violence. In
this latest craze, dancers hurl
themselves at each other in a frenzy.
With the gangs involved, the number of
dancers piled on the floor when the
music stops is getting higher-and
bloodier.
"We were all jumping on top of this
guy when someone hit me from
behind," said Eric, a 10-year-old who
had just lost a front tooth in a moelee at
the Roxy. The raucous British group
"999" was performing its biggest hit,
"Homicide." .
A YOUNG MAN clad in leather stands in line outside Los Angeles' Whiskey
A Go Go club, waiting to attend the performance of a punk rock band. A
woman was recently knifed in the back while attending A "Whiskey" show,
prompting concern that the violent posing of punkers is causing violent
actions.
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