Can we please stop with the "poor gang banger" routine? It's getting stupid:
Pulgar said it was especially upsetting that police officers would say on police blogs that he was trying to promote a street gang.
“How can they say that I’m representing a gang member? How dare they say that I’m doing that if I’m really representing them? Get that through their head that I’m representing them, not no gang,” Pulgar said.
Pulgar did acknowledge that his Facebook page, which has since been made private, had pictures of him flashing gang signs, but he said that was a “stupid” mistake from his past. He admitted he’s been in trouble before, but claimed working to win the contest was his way of trying to turn his life around.
“That’s why I entered this contest, that’s why I’m doing this, to turn myself around … from that negative that I was doing, you know what I mean?” he said. “What they saw on Facebook was me doing stupid stuff as a kid.
Um, you're 15. You're still a kid.
Has anyone asked him about his juvenile record? Any gang tattoos? Maybe on the shoulder? We're just wondering.
Has anyone asked him about his juvenile record? Any gang tattoos? Maybe on the shoulder? We're just wondering.