Sleepy Lagoon Case Study

The incidences On the 2nd day of August 1942, the body of Jose Diaz was found murdered in one of the South East Los Angeles reservoirs that was famously known as the Sleepy Lagoon Reservoir. The incident acted as a trigger to most of the media houses as they focused their attention on addressing the Mexican American boy criminal gangs, their criminal activities, mad the zoot suits that they wore. As such, in trying to get to the rot cause of the murder, the Los Angeles Police ended up questioning an approximated six hundred Chicano youths. Amongst those who were interviewed were Lorena and her brother Louis Encinas who happened to have attended a party near the Sleepy Lagoon the night when the event occurred. At the end of the investigation,

Additionally, the tow cases involved Mexican American boys who were better described by the suits that they was famously known as the zoot suits. Again, the end of the two cases saw the young boys being convicted and emerging out to be the losers as in the sleepy lagoon trials, a total of seventeen young boys were convicted while in the zoot suit riots, the type of clothing that was used to describe the young men was banned by the authorities for security purposes in the city Los

In a matter of time, the zoot suit style that was infamously used in the city slowly faded off and it could not be viewed in the city anymore as a result of the two incidences. While the zoot riot case banned the suits directly, the sleepy lagoon case trials scared the young boys indirectly as they feared to be convicted and instead, decided not to wear anything that would make the police to easily notice them while carrying out their activities in the city of Los Angeles. The best way to do this was to avoid wearing the zoot suit as it was highly associated with the Mexican American young boys. At the end of the two cases, small reservoirs that were infamously known as the sleepy lagoon became a victim of urban sprawl and it was filled in with residents from different parts of the city just like the area that was occupied with Mexican Americans in the zoot suit case were occupied by both sailors and the young boys. Additionally, it can be clearly seen that the two cases involved Mexican American whose presence in the city was seen to brig more chaos than peace and this is not received well by the people who they live