Pete Mendes (died 1878) was an Portuguese-American hoodlum and the criminal gang leader of the nativist "Teddy Boys" gang in San Francisco, California during the 1870s. Mendes and his street thugs were infamous for cutting the queues off of Chinese immigrants' heads and wearing them as trophies, while also lynching Chinese immigrants on the grounds of ostensibly corrupting America. In 1878, he and the rest of his gang were tracked down to their warehouse hideout and slaughtered by the Chinese vigilantes Ah Toy, Ah Sahm, and Lai.
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Mendes' death