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a usually the two. can always be someone else is ready to kill me because i'm aware of. the govt do you think you're one of them make a movie kill one of us and i'm really born until you came to run away get out of it didn't want to run one luxury over the past twenty years alone in the only county there's been all group to keep losing game related to. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators it would go to the un. now twelve minute i was born in a downgrade in the time of die and. i would choose my destiny my destination show me.
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in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america there's a cluster of neighborhoods the streets and boulevards laid out in a grid between the concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles of the west is a pacific coast highway and the beach is that among. five most of the north pole day i 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 but twice it's also the home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods is bloody
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forty year feud has taken five times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland and whose devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this way. in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd become us and grew up reaching for their piece of the american dream. the most significant thing was when i went to join the boy scouts. good boy scouts
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of america. my mother taking up to the scout to be good your robert plant with the original blue if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in the neighborhood right to work 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 but 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 he could just kind of be cheerful brave clean and referee that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the business men gladiators and sloss and black teenagers began forming their own street plots returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to little small farms sixty second to call slots and that's where the name comes from to.
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sussex evolved into what many consider to be elites first modern african-american. but we never called ourselves that that was something that the city and the police that describe the state 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 and identity that you didn't have 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. with the. code you have to to be. because everybody else in town knew
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about. this in person how good are those things i say these days my dear i shall be cheering lana wood back to the studio here to help us. through. what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to see this one scene and he does you know you're looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting a phone. but it wasn't really about destroying somebody really just a competitive day you know just competing with each other. 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
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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 manned by chief we. see barker ran a police department like a military unit and the people who bore about us were black residents but it was far. bigger and. not that hard. and so the cops were treating these young black men as though they were enemies as they were in warfare.
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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 foot no reason at all east of meta these were way areas linwood southgate you couldn't go there you had cops that 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 on to currency 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 and such a soul and they tell me i look like i've been robbed. as well out of the rubble and
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she looks just like you. so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of darker hue 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 value. 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 going. 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 and ask anybody else what they do in. do you stop and ask anybody else
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in a society why do you exist. going to step out of sand 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 don't understand it every day speed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my. spunk full of 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 am i going to tag my brother you understand my one time my own image you know i'm going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. at seven pm on august eleventh one thousand and sixty five in the corners of
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a hundred sixteenth an awful lot twenty one year old watts resident marquette fry was pulled over by the california highway patrol on suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding frys car despite being less than two blocks from home fries mother alone the car 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 who called in a scuffle broke out and friday 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 to now with charles mcwhorter from the dartanion assuming what happened is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said. it was
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the lobby. that is aloof from many. but dangerous even to those who keep it to distance. morning news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are on today . fifty one thousand watts residents were surging up and down.
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the one am spike twenty nine arrest and sporadic reports of mandolins the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. as being under control the let. go and. 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 reading from. we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights drive in america has 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
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would take. it you like. this week the negro people down here. you should suck it up 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. take to be. their 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 evan very different perspective. we come to. you took.
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of topic americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred feet deep and deputy sheriff. so here we are in a crowd at night when. things in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street . and they went to move to. see so when we moved toward. them 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. this own now. please. please
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. please my friday morning additional police were called in from all points of delhi 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 legal ramp up intelligence to be spread to some of the in. her little clip then what happens is that it becomes a big newspaper story which increases political pressure on the authorities to do
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something. illegal. and been a problem sixteen thousand national guard. little national guard particulars on a still trying to engage in civilian crowd completely at least. at that point they want to be others which was the iron fist the are. a this these 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 looters there were refusing orders to go to. the autopsies clearly show people were shot in the back.
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one has to really question whether or not a human wife is worth all of your a case of fear. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect one of the most trivial of offenses. really and 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 memo along with which we're confronted and that the only thing they understand is farce and. that's been the learn taboo. is that black people and other oppressed people in this country are never to use violence to achieve what it is they want.
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but this country uses violence whenever it chooses and then it legitimizes the violence. you say need to mess with my life is of no value how can your property in your society how can a civilization how can any of them or has rules or any of the mind of it's how can any of it be of any value to me. but all it has on the door for me is a rejection of us i'm i'm not. look i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake . of. 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
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a door and get rejected takes a little something out of. the fact it took on a ship down from a barbecue ship down in the bay is a testament to the revolutionary spirit. and so there was this sense to be taking the stand and to be a simple message out to the world. it. is. a finger to be buried in represented for us was it feels that celebrate consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one again active you know labels of all time low because so many young people would join organizations like the student for there. already.
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is growing black pride move saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. five years 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 activism. elite. athlete. 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
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described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. you. may turn around and squash those. from his last intent the chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student meet while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lift the jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders and either been incarcerated. or sas. they ran him down and chased him down a kind of down a murdered everybody did good and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up in a penitentiary and when all that was over with
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a new element rose the call of crips. to sit. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and 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 bullets. exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why you never be known. for the next four decades boring crips and bloods sets the car the streets of south l.a. into a grid of rival territories. today
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these fractured communities are home to five generations of carbon soldiers. really from well from. us this out is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus you go to any time they'd have to come across normandy you dot. com called for a march feel badly. when i was gang banging and when my mother would roll come on who would you come the mother when you don't know nobody mother didn't you got. west side of his bloods on the inside of us is crips just around in
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a box you know i mean surrounded by insects this was created over twenty years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gang. certain streets certain alley certain stores certain schools served in parks or claim death star. you can go it is gas there's booze gives no call. you can go to bed already because you were wrong they were who. you got some of action where you fall and you would tell them you know hi from nowhere home you can all say but you got some of you she just blow your head off just because we. all in my face waiting for my you know me to. come down and i'm out of situation. just be where i want to win as other girls in other provinces manage it want to go the engines see me.
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