he's alone in the l.a. county there's been over fifteen 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 and raised 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 in 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 pole they all drive in beverly hills. seven miles to the east to corner of hollywood and by twenty five miles south there's orange county and disneyland. surrounded by the california dream this region has gone legs. on its streets there up to the country's most violent outbreak of civil unrest not once but twice it's also the home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods is bloody forty year feud is taken by times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it was devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this way.

to. the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd. 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 taking up to scout to be good your robert plant with the original bill if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there what there to join the boy scouts my mother did not the scoutmaster. it was nice but he chose my mother well i don't

know what some of the 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 and cody is kind of be careful brave clean and reverent the that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the business men gladiators and slawson black teenagers began forming their own st clement's returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to little small parts of the sixers are going to call slots and bars that's where our name comes from to. toot toot. sweet. sausage evolved into what many consider to be ellie's first modern african american garrett. but we never called us elf that was some. in that city and the

police that describe the scene we were clubs. what drew me to sloths and was that 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 as 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 as it were but. you had to be there because everybody else in town knew but you know. this occurred how good are those things i say these days my dear i say i would be cheering here in atlanta we're back to the studio here to whoop your sideburns off. before we. does what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to him that's one thing and he does you know you look at the somebody

to tell him i'm getting phone. but it wasn't really about destroying somebody really just a competitive day and you know just competing with each other. this time of produce 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 possible. their use as being people.

will commit crime. one hundred fifty eight in one thousand 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 hurt. and so the cops were treating these young 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 way areas

linwood southgate you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you there and 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 a car and said didn't you hear it's called and i severed say you know my name is not you so you know get up against the wall and such a so and they tell me i look like i've been robbed. as well out of the rubble and she looks just like you. know. so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of you were inferior 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 he'll damn good as well. i mean i'm danielle gamba is where i came from. where you go. people ask me what are you doing here you go anywhere asking us what they do innit. in a society where you exist. got to step out of sand and you've got to be there all day every day what do you think that does to me psychologically what does it tell me what message there might be and feel every day you know understand it every day speed me as before the hatred. every day that's my. sperm full of hatred.

you see. it's just a question of when is this going to erupt and upon whom is it going to erupt i will attack myself am i going to tag my brother you understand i want my own image you know. going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. at seven pm and obviously eleven thousand nine hundred sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth and avalon twenty one year old watts resident market fraud was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on impounding fries car despite being less than two blocks from home fries mother won't call 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 are called in a scuffle broke out and friday his mother rena and brother ron were all taken into custody. the squad cars rolled away but the crowd continue to swell as one of the incidents swept through the neighborhood when i walked up one hundred fifty two now with charles mcwhorter from the dark canyons assuming what happened is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said it was a cumulative. it was one racist traffic stop two minute.

fifty or one thousand watts residents were surging up and down up along. the about one am spike twenty nine arrest and sporadic reports of mandamus the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. as being under control.

you're. going. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet. at two pm a meeting was called 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. this week the negro people. we know it's what you can do greater than. show that it doesn't work it doesn't

destroy. it in a little take that. the parents are coming from places where black men are expected to step up 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 very different perspectives. we come to teach you took. the. topic in americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriff. so

here we are in a crowd. when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street. and they went to move to. see so when. one of the. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going beautiful. and they fired from around the crowd. this own now. 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 doing.

the scene as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because you never gave the so-called equal up intelligence to be spread this enough throughout . her little. lead then what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal. and then it probably is sixteen thousand national guard. little national guard particulars on a really funny to engage in civilian crowd people believe.

at that point they want to be others which was the iron fist the aren't. and this these two approach will free fire zones where people could be shot. making. the wrong time and call intersection. the claim by police is that these a little bit were refusing orders to go to. the autopsies clearly show people were shot in the back. one has to really question whether or not a human wife is worth the bottle of beer or a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect one of the most trivial of offenses. looting did not mind anything because we're talking about desperate people we're talking about people who have nothing to see

no hope. this is a crime 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 will press 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. was.

the same need to masses my life is of no value how can your property in your society how can a civilization how can any of them or as walls or any of the monuments how can any of it be of any value to me. when all it has on a 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 gone 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 of i'm a ship down slow me down and bake is a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense that we have taken a stand and to be

a simple message out to the world. it. is. a finger to be buried in represented for us with it it's celebrate our consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one gang activity you know that of all time low the so many young people with joining organizations like the student or the. already. this growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. five years like byrd and ron the power rather than the 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. to be. 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. is the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. the chapter founder. and john were gunned down at a u.c.l.a.

black steve. while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lengthy jail sentence. in a few short years. his most influential. black leaders. ran him down and chased them out of the market everybody 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. when the black top playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new war led by south l.a. teenager raymond washington generally cut it 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 bloods. exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why you never been up. for the next four decades warring crips and bloods sets would carve the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of urban soldiers. really from well from. the u.s.

this out is where we go from as a stall model kill or be killed. question go to any type they'd have to have come across normandy you dot. com caldwell are still baffled. wells again going to be well some of the old come out because the mother when you don't know nobody mother again you've got. west side of his bloods on the inside of us is crips just around in a box you know misrata but in the sect this was created over twenty years. years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gangs. certain streets certain alleys certain stores certain schools certain parks were claimed as. you can go it is gas.

you can go ahead. because you want to own neighborhood. some of action when you fall and you would tell them you know i'm from nowhere. but you got some of you see just because we have been jammed all in my face way you format tell me i was from come down and i'm out of situation i wish i could just go and just be where i want to when there is other girls in other projects as man i just want to go the engines see me. everything i can.

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