Reputed Boss Of Gambino Crime Family Gunned Down In New York
Source: Huffington Post
03/14/2019 12:27 am ET
Francesco Cali was shot multiple times outside his Staten Island home.
By Nick Visser
Francesco Cali, believed to be the boss of the notorious Gambino crime family, was killed on Staten Island late Wednesday, the New York Police Department said.
Cali, 53, was shot multiple times outside his home shortly after 9 p.m. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, an NYPD official told HuffPost.
Authorities are investigating Calis death, and some media reports note a blue pickup was seen leaving the scene shortly after the shooting.
Cali reportedly took over the Gambino crime family in 2015, according to a profile in Gang Land News. He was arrested in 2008 as part of a sweeping indictment by the Justice Department against organized crime but has mostly kept a low profile since.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/francesco-cali-gambino-family-killed_n_5c89ce3be4b0fbd76620b1c1
edbermac
(15,940 posts)Last time hell tell somebody to go home and get their shinebox.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)wonder what mook is taking his place.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)I'm not okay with referring to Italians as mooks, the Irish as micks, the Spanish as spics and so on, just seems offensive and distasteful to me, but maybe some people feel like it's okay to throw that out there and don't consider that others might be offended
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)I checked several dictionaries and the racial slur is, at best, mentioned as historic prior usage.
It is now a term for an idiot or an unpretentious member of the community.
Urban Dictionary:
mook
n. Italian-American short form of malook, motherfucker 1. a person of little social standing, one not worthy of respect. 2. an affectionate term for a regular guy, one who is unpretentious. 3. an incompetent person.
Google:
mook
/mo͝ok/Submit
nounINFORMALUS
plural noun: mooks
a stupid or incompetent person.
"if you don't want to look like every other mook you need a sartorial trademark"
Merriam-Webster:
mook noun
ˈmük
Definition of mook
slang
: a foolish, insignificant, or contemptible person
OED:
Definition of mook in English:
mook
NOUN
US
informal
A stupid or incompetent person.
if you don't want to look like every other mook you need a sartorial trademark
neohippie
(1,142 posts)Since I'm old enough to remember it as a slur, it's meaning hasn't changed for me, and that is enough to offend me it matters not that it's acceptable to anyone else, and since it's being used here to refer to Italians that puts it's sting into context enough for me to take offense.
Perhaps if you grew up hearing this word used as a slur, your mileage might vary
So what you're telling me is that historically it was used as a slur, but now it's acceptable, kind of like corruption used to be abhorrent but now Trump is normalizing that too
Your argument sounds a lot like heritage not hate confederate flag's are okay to me here
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)So I googled it:
Definition of mook
slang
: a foolish, insignificant, or contemptible person
First Known Use of mook
1930, in the meaning defined above
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mook
neohippie
(1,142 posts)
It has no real meaning in Italian. It may have once been an unflattering slang word used to designate Italian-Americans much in the same way that Mick was a derisive term for Irish-Americans.
I wouldnt throw it around in unknown company though.
Here's a good read on what constitutes a slur
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/on-slurs-a-response/
Keep in mind that at least two features of slurs must be explained. First, how can some be more offensive than others (including those targeting the same group)? And second, why can some of us use slurs without being offensive while others of us cannot? The proposal that slurs are expressions whose occurrences are prohibited purports to explain these features better than views that invoke the content of the word, i.e. their meaning. In fact, appeals to meaning dont seem to be capable of coherently accommodating either of these features. This point cannot be stressed enough, since several commentators seem to conflate the aim of the original post with an entirely separate aim, namely, imposing standards of political correctness. This was not intended.
Further, the proposal does not claim prohibition exhausts a slurs content. Rather, the suggestion is that prohibition explains the phenomenon of offense. Slurs may very well carry negative content (even though they need not), but prohibitionism claims that content does not explain, for instance, the variation in offensive potency among slurs.
more at link above
Another link
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mook&page=4
25
Mook
A slur used mostly for ignorant Italians.
1)Giovanni, would you shut up you fuckin' mook!
2)Lookidiss fuckin' mook bastid
#italians#morons#ignorance#mean streets#goombas
ancianita
(36,066 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)That's how Phil Leotardo died in the finale.
RandySF
(58,899 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Rincewind
(1,203 posts)that's called natural causes.
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)That's a bold move these days when there are surveillance cameras everywhere and probably some law enforcement watching this guy.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)yardwork
(61,649 posts)KPN
(15,646 posts)In fact, several of them. Oh hell, a bunch.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)Reputed Gambino crime family boss Francesco 'Franky Boy' Cali shot to death outside his home, probed as possible revival of 'mob war': Source
Good Morning America
AARON KATERSKY, JOSH MARGOLIN and BILL HUTCHINSON
Good Morning America March 14, 2019
The reputed leader of the Gambino crime family, once headed by infamous mobster John Gotti, was gunned down in a "well-thought-out execution" outside his New York City home late Wednesday -- sparking an investigation into whether the hit was sanctioned or the revival of a "mob war," sources told ABC News.
. . .
"This was not some fly-by-night thing," a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News. "This was a well-thought-out execution."
. . .
Cali is the first reputed mob boss murdered in New York City in 35 years. He was shot outside his home as many as 10 times by a killer who may have fled the scene in a pickup truck, police said.
. . .
A law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News that detectives are attempting to determine if Cali's killing signaled the revival of a "mob war." The shooting outside Cali's home, the source said, suggests the killing was meant to send an ominous message.
More:
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/reputed-gambino-crime-family-member-shot-death-outside-052900278--abc-news-topstories.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews