brain damage die of. natural death a definition 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 beaches that i'm on. five most of the north shore they all 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 has school legs. on its streets there up to 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 is bloody forty year feud has taken five 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.

in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd. grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream. the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts boy scouts of america. my mother taking up to scout to be good you robert plant with the original blue if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in the neighborhood right there so i go up there to join the boy scouts my mother did with the scout master. it was nice but he chose my mother well i don't know what some parents might object because it was a white truth. to say be prepared to do a good turn daily the scout is is trustworthy loyal friend it could just kind of be careful brave clean and referee that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races.

with names like the businessmen gladiators and sloss and it's black teenagers began forming their own street fights returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to lucille ball parks and sixty second to call slots and box that's where the name comes from to. you. tube. slawson evolved into what many consider to be a ladies first modern african-american game. but we never called us selves again that was something that the city and the police would describe as we were clubs. which 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 now an identity that you didn't.

anywhere else. the sense of family is 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. because everybody else in town knew about. this in person how good are those things i say these days my dear i say i would be chilly here in atlanta we're back to the city oh here will be a sad burns off. that's what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to him that's what he said when he does you know you looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting a phone. but it wasn't really about destroying somebody else just a competitive day you know just competing with.

just our 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 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 crimes. from one hundred fifty to one nine hundred sixty six the los angeles police department was commanded by chief we are. the park. ran a police department like

a military unit and the people who boarded brought us were black residents credit card and. get your hand out but not that first get your hand out and so the cops were treating these young black men as though they were enemies as though 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 away areas linwood south gate 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 curb jumped out a car and say didn't you hear it's called you sir heard say you but my name is not you so no get up against the wall in such a soul and it look like i've been robbed. that's why out of the rubble and she looks just like you. so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of dark and few were inferior and should be treated as such. and after a while you begin to internalize this and you develop a deep seated self-hatred. because you see yourself as having almost no bad. parent. in

a free society i'm walking down the street but he's got the nerve to ask me where you go where you come you know he'll damn good as well go it. may not danielle gamba knows where it came from. don't know where you go. people ask me what are you doing here you go anywhere ask anybody else what they do and. you stop and ask anybody else in a society why you exist. going to stay out of sand and you 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 fear every day so you know understand it every day speed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my doc 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 tax my own image you know. and i am 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 market fraud was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on impounding frys car 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 are called in the scuffle broke out and fried. his mother and

brother were all taken into custody. the squad cars rolled away but the crowd continue to swell as word of the incident swept through the neighborhood when i woke up one hundred fifty to. quarter from the. what happened he said. we just got more and more it was a cumulative it was one. two minutes. sometimes

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you. i. fifty or one thousand watts residents were surging up and down up along. about one am spike twenty nine arrest and sporadic reports of vandalism 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. even mean from i think that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights drive 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. you like. this week the negro people down here.

you see. we know it's real and you can show it you greater than living it show that it doesn't work it doesn't destroy. it in a movie take it beat. their 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. or black man or lynched with regularity. and so from their perspective los angeles looks wonderful there certainly aware of the flaws but they recognize it's such an improvement their children however evan very different perspective. we come along and we teach you to. be. proud of topic and americans again filled the streets. but

this time over two hundred feet and deputy sheriff talks. 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 we moved. 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 in a fire 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 right leg didn't call it a right to look. we would. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because of the so-called equal intelligence of these predators and the director of. her little clip then what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do something. illegal then it probably is sixteen thousand national guard.

little national guard particulars honestly trying to engage in civilian crowd completely at least. at that point they point to the others which was the iron fist the hour. and a vis the suit a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making . the wrong time at the wrong intersection. claimed by police as it feels a little it 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 wind is worth to follow your case of beer. that is to say people were being

killed for what can retrospect were 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 with which we're confronted and of the only thing they understand is farce. that's been the lun 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.

sinitta masses my life is of no value how can your property in your society how can a civilization how can any of the more rules 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 help us i'm i'm not. i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake dissipate. all my life i was rejected before i was born and the most reject nothing is open to me. and every time i'm not on a door and get rejected takes a little something out of. the fact it took on a ship down from a bar big ship down in the bay is

a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense of we have taken a stand and to be it sent a message out to the world. a. is. such. a thing of the rebellion represented for us was the real fix celebrate christmas from sixty five until about seventy one again active you know labels all time low because so many young people would join organizations like the student or the panther party. scrawling black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african american organizations committed to instigating change from within.

street fighters like byrd and ron 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 activist. elite. 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 botched a covert counterintelligence operation against the black panthers. organization he described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. they turn around and squash goes.

from his last an intent to chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john hugs were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. blacks to me while black panther found his huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and limp in jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders either been incarcerated . or sas. they ran him down and chased them down a kind of down a murdered everybody they could and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over with a new element rose the color crips. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the black top playgrounds of fremont high school emerged this new order 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 bullets. exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why we never be known. for the next four decades or encrypt and blood sets we carve the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. and. today these fractured communities are home to five generations of urban soldiers.

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claimed as turf. you can go it is gas this was gives no call. you can go to bed or getting older because you want to own neighborhood. you got some of action when you fall and you would tell them you know i'm from nowhere home you know i'm saying but you got some of the action she just blow your head off just because we. on a big jam deal because now in my face way you format tell me told when i was from come down and i'm out of situation i wish i could just go it just be whatever i wanted to with man as other girls in other projects as me and i just want to go the windsors see me what i'm saying young hotties man i can't even go to the money i'm putting. everything i came.

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