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In his housing unit, pouring hot coffee into a large cup. he takes a sip of the coffee and approaches a group of inmates, including danell hill, a member of the bloods, soto suddenly throws the coffee in hill's face and pursues him with a barrage of punches. hill recovers enough from the surprise attack to back away, but soto is soon on him again. with hot coffee in his eyes and burns on his torso, hill tries to fight back, only to slip on spilled coffee. in these maximum security housing units, inmatthey've cal for backup to restrain the inmates. one minute and 35 seconds later,

>> no, i wasn't surprised. most gang members are proud of them. a lot of them will say, yeah, and some will grin and say no. >> when you take him downstairs, i want to toss his cell. >> while deputies photograph his tattoos, corporal brown searches his sell for gang correspondence, weapons or other contraband. >> when they searched his cell last time, they found a homemade weapon in a doritos bag, underneath his desk. >> soto is serving 50 years to life in prison for the murder of a rival gang member. he's been transferred back to the jail in order to challenge that sentence under a new state ...

No, as in i don't know him. >> following rules laid out by the surenos regarding media, soto agreed to speak with us, only in the presence of a senior gang member, who would monitor the gang member to make sure he wouldn't reveal any confidential information about the surenos. >> can you tell me why you'd walk up to a complete stranger and throw hot coffee on his face and beat him up? >> no, can't talk about that. >> why the hot coffee? >> i think we're still on the same subject. i don't think i -- >> why not just walk up and punch somebody? >> still no. >> just a misunderstanding. >> just jai...

Hill's face and unleashing a barrage of punches. he had difficulty defending himself. deputies responded within 90 seconds, but the damage was done. >> break it up! >> this eye is swollen. this eye got a lot of coffee in it, and i got some second-degree burns on my neck and my chest area. it's part of the lifestyle. it's normal. i usually heal pretty fast. so, yeah, just a minor setback for a major comeback. >> 13 days earlier, hill was released from prison, where he was serving time for burglary. after seven days on the outside, he was arrested on a new charge of aggravated robbery, to which ...

A couple days, i'm pretty sure. a few days. >> the district attorney could decide to file criminal charges against soto, with or without hill's cooperation. jail officials have also given him 25 days in disciplinary detention where he will spend up to 23 hours per day, locked in a single man cell and lose most privileges. this is the sixth time so theto been in detention during his time here. >> two for battery, two for ag battery, one for advancing aggressively towards a deputy. i think that one was bs. >> six and a half years earlier, at age 16, soto attacked another gang member with fatal r...