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love doesn't walk in south central. on scripts and books will be more than thirty odd years one of the longest one in more than a year if the two. can always be someone else is ready to kill me because i'm aware of. the gulf being in q one of them make a movie kill one of us and then we born until you came down. on a way to get out of the water i want to hear it over the past twenty years alone in

l.a. county has been over to keep thousand game related that. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators are they going to be aware. of what benefit i was born in a bit of trade and i'm a guy and. i did kill my death a destination show. in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america is a cluster of neighborhoods the streets of new boulevards laid out in

a grid between the concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles to the west is a pacific coast highway and the beach is that among. five most of the north jewel they'll drive in beverly hills. seven miles to the east to corner of hollywood by twenty five miles south those orange county and disneyland. surrounded by the california dream this region that's own legs. on its streets there up the country's most violent outbreak of civil unrest not once twice it's also the home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods was bloody forty year feud was taken by times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it was devastating body count continues today. but himself. this angelus. life wasn't always this way.

in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron bird. grew up reaching for the piece of the american dream. the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts good boy scouts of america. my mother takes me up to the scout to be good you're robert plant with the original blimp if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there what they were to join the boy scouts my mother did with the scout master. it was nice but it tells my mother well i

don't know what some parents might object because it was a white truth. to say be prepared do a good turn daily the scout is is trustworthy loyal friend it could just kind of be careful brave clean and reverent the that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the businessmen gladiators and slawson black teenagers began forming their own street playing for targets. to hit the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to see all possible successors are going to call sausan ghosheh and that's where our name comes from this. man to. man to. sausage evolved into what many consider to be ellie's first modern african american. but we never called ourselves that was something that the city and the

police like described as we were clubs. what drew me to slow simplicity they mirrored who i was and it made one feel like one had some status and you had an identity and identity that you didn't have anywhere else. the sense of family there's a sense of acceptance you also have a way to wilson power because now you've got numbers. in those days we give you a point when. we know you had to be here because everybody else in town knew but you know. this occurred how good are those things i said these days my dear i said i would be chilling here in atlanta we're back to the city you're here to look your sideburns off. before we. just what we call wolf and oh you know

i was going to him that's what he said and he does you know you looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting a phone. but it wasn't really about destroying somebody really just a competitive day and you know just competing with each other. is this time of police all the time. my mother. always said you know what did you do just that i didn't do anything you know see people including parents could not believe that the man just after a lot of. young black men in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures crossed the border. they're used as being people.

will commit crimes. from one hundred fifty to one nine hundred sixty six the los angeles police department was commanded by chief we are. chief barker ran a police department like a military unit and the people who bought it brought us word of black residents that it was far. bigger and. not that hard. and so the cops were treating the john black men as though they were enemies as they were in warfare. it was an open secret that one of the tacit duties of the l.a.p.d. was to make sure people were in the right neighborhoods at the right time and

alameda boulevard was the white curtain in l.a. you didn't cross alameda for no reason at all east of alameda these were away areas linwood southgate you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you the blacks that danes to cross the line were quickly put in place by police officers. one time i was walking down the street on seventy seventh and central and the man said hey you. heard that i can't walk you say you and they ran on the current jumped out occurrence they didn't do here it's called you severed say you but my name is not you don't you know get up against a wall in such a soul and it look like i've been robbed. as well out of the rubble and she looks just like you. told me so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of darker. work in theory and should

be treated as such. and after a while you begin to internalize this and you develop a deep seeded self hatred. because you see yourself as having almost no value. in a free society i'm walking down a street but he's got the nerve to ask me where you go where you come you know you know damn good as well going. i mean of danielle gamba knows where it came from. a time out where you go. people ask you what are you doing here you go anywhere they ask anybody else what they do and. you stop an ass going to but also in a society where you exist. got to step out of sand and you got the nerve to ask me that all day every day now what do you think that does to me psychologically what does it tell me what message there might be and fear every day so you know

understand it every day speed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my. sperm for the hatred. you see. pan it's just a question of when is this going to erupt and upon whom is it going to erupt i will attack myself and my going to tag my brother you understand my point tat my own image you know i'm going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. at seven pm on the sea level one thousand and sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth an awful lot twenty one year old watts resident marquette fried was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine try. until police insisted on impounding fries despite being less than

two blocks from home fries mother. join the rapidly growing crowd who along with marquette grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements were called in a scuffle broke out and his mother rena and brother ron were all taken into custody . the squad cars rolled away in the crowd continue to swell as word of the incident swept through the neighborhood when i walked up one hundred fifty two now with. water from the dark canyons of the mail what happened is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said it was a cumulative thing it was one racist traffic stop two minute. wealthy british style.

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fifty one thousand watts residents are surging up and down up along. the about one am spike twenty nine arrests and sporadic reports of vandalism the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. has been under control. you're. going to. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet. at two pm a meeting was called in a neighborhood rec center simply representatives from various community groups elected officials the l.a.p.d. the media. and even. i think that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights dr in america have demonstrated that well be that.

the cutting through a call for order only the night before was raised by thousands in the street and i would take. it you like. this week the negro people down here. you should. we know it's even greater than leaving it show that it doesn't work it doesn't destroy. it and we will take the. parents are coming from places where black men are expected to step off the street and say yes to a twelve year old white boy. where black men are lynched with regularity. and so from their perspective los angeles looks wonderful they're certainly aware of the flaws but they recognize it's such an improvement their children however

evan very different perspectives. become obsolete. you took that. african-americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriff. so here we. are at night when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street. and they want to move to. do so when do we move. and so you're looking at one and. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build up. and then they fired from around the

brow. the so now. please. please my friday morning additional police were called in from all points of l.a. to squash what authorities were now termed a full scale life legacy because of the right to look. we were don't. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because you never gave the so-called nickel up intelligence to be strategists and know the little. her little. leg then what happens is that it becomes

a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal and in a body of sixteen thousand national guard i don't know who to write. lengthy national guard particulars on a really funny to engage in civilian crowd people believe least. at that point they went to the other church which was the iron fist the are. and this leads to a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making. the wrong time at the wrong intersection. the claim by police is that these the looters they were refusing orders to go to.

the autopsies clearly show the people were shot in the back. one has to really question whether or not a human one is worth bottle of beer a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect were the most trivial of offense it's. really been undermined anything because we're talking about desperate people we're talking about people who have nothing we see no hope. misleading them home along los alamos with which we're confronted and of the only thing they understand is farce. that's been the one taboo. is that black people and other oppressed people in this country are never to use violence to achieve what it is they want.

but this country uses violence whenever it chooses and then it legitimizes the violence. what. you send me to masses my life is of no value how can your property how can your society how can a civilization how can any of them or walls or any of the monuments how can any of it be of any value to me. when all it has on the door for me is a rejection of us i'm not on. i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake. all my life i was rejected before i was born and the most reach. nothing is open to

me. and every time i'm not on a door and get rejected takes a little something out of. the package up on a ship down from a barbecue trip down in the bay is a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense that we have taken a stand and to be it sent the message out to the world. it. is. such. a thing of the rebellion represented for us was it feels that celebrate our consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one gang activity you know labels all time low the so many young people with joining organizations like the student

or the. already. destroying black pride movie saw the development of dynamic african american organizations committed to instigating change from within. the former street fighters like byrd and ron now thought the power rather than other gangs were going along side groups like the black panthers and civic programs that range from free breakfast to neighborhood restoration to political activists say please please please . this new black power structure quickly found itself in the crosshairs of government agencies like the f.b.i. . according to recently declassified documents f.b.i. director j.

edgar hoover. counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. the chapter founder of this bunch of car. were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lengthy jail sentence. in a few short years video america's most influential. black leaders. they ran him down and chased him out of the murdered everybody could and made their body

else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over we. call the creeps. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the blacktop playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new order led by south l.a. teenager raymond washington generally credited as the crips founding member. in response number of rival gangs formed an alliance calling themselves bloods moniker adopted by african-american soldiers serving in vietnam. the opposing armies now in place battle flags were raised blue for crips and red for bullets. exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why we never be no. more the next four decades or encrypt and blood sets the car the streets of south l.a.

into a grid of rival territories. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of carbon soldiers. really for a while from. us this out is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. wash good enemy target they'd have a to come across normandy you dot. com called our march feel bad for. what i was going to interview while the mother would all come out would come the mother when you don't know nobody mother don't you got. west side of us his blood

on the inside of us is crips just around in a box you know misrata but in the sex this was created over twenty years. years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by. certain streets certain certain stores certain schools certain parks or claim. you can go it is. you can go to bed. because you want to own a will who. will you follow and you would tell them you know. what you got some of you see just. where you want to be because now in my face way you for. me. come down and i'm out of situation just go and just be where i want to when man is

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