gangbanger

Example Sentences

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For all that, it was hard to avoid roles that played to stereotypes — “I look a certain way, so I was doing both Latino gangbanger roles, and Native ones as well,” McClarnon said — but he made the most of every part, no matter what it was or how small.

From New York Times

"It was eating me up inside," he said of his actions at age 16, when he was "a straight-up gangbanger".

From BBC

As his career progressed, Maridueña was offered a host of stereotypical roles for Latino actors — “gangbanger #2, drug guy.”

From Los Angeles Times

“La renta!” shouted a pistol-packing gangbanger in a wheelchair who was called El Wheelo.

From Los Angeles Times

“They don’t understand it because my son isn’t a gangbanger, violent type,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times