why. 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 concrete ribbons of freeway. ten miles of the west is a pacific coast highway and the beaches that mount. five most of the north shore they all drive in beverly hills. seven miles to the east the corner of hollywood by twenty five miles south those orange county and disneyland. surrounded by the california dream this region has sown 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 has taken five times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it whose devastating body count continues today. but in south los angeles. life wasn't always this way. going on 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 boy scouts of america. my mother takes me up to the 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 not the scoutmaster. 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 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 fights returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and dancing naked to little small parts of the sixty second interval call slawson fox that's where the name comes

from to. eat. sausage evolved into what many consider to be a lady's first modern african american game. but we never called ourselves that 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 at some status and you had an identity and identity that you didn't have anywhere else. the sense of family has 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 for name. as women. you had to be there because everybody else in town knew

about you know. basic or how good of those things i say these days my dear i say i would beach ahead to the studio here. before we. go we call wolf and oh you know i was going to ask 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 else just a competitive day and you know just competing with. his time and produce all the time. my mother. always said you know what did you do just i didn't do anything you know see people including parents could not believe

that the man just a lot of. young black man in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures possible. their views 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 parker 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. that. 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. getting close alameda foot no reason at all east of meta these away 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 curb jumped out of currency didn't you hear it's called you a severed say you but my name is not you so you know get up against the wall and

such a soul and it look like i've been robbed. as well 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 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're

going away ask anybody else what they do and. you stop and ask anybody else in a society why you exist. got to stay out of sand and you got the nerve to ask me that 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 die spawn 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 to my own image you know. going to eventually attack the cause of my anger and my frustration.

at seven pm on august eleventh one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 school for his 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 are called in the scuffle broke out on 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 woke up one hundred fifty two now we're not trolls my quarter from the dark canyons assuming what happened is they jumped on market. we just got more and more said

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lake fifteen the one thousand watts residents were surging up and down the in. the one am spike twenty nine arrest the sporadic reports of vandalism the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. as being under control. and. you're. going. 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. even mean from i think that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights drive in america have demonstrated that islands well be that. the cutting through a call for order came a voice that only the night before was raised by thousands in the street and i would take night you know whether you like not. this week the negro people down here have got. to tell 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 the press is really taking. 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. 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 along to when. you took it. to crowds of topic and americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred people and deputy sheriff talks. 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 the crowd back. so when the man

moved on us we moved toward. them so you're looking at one and. and you're reading of people in the body language that says it's going to buddha. and then they fired some around. its own now. please. 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. led to the call of the right to look. we would only. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because of the so-called equal intelligence of these practice enough to break the law and.

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 aren't. a this these states to

a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making . the wrong time at the wrong intersection. claimed by police is it because the looters there 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 one is worth the fall of fear in case of fear. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect were the most trivial of offenses. looting did not to 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 and. 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. you say need a massive i like it's of no value how can your property in your society how can a civilization how can any of them or rules or any of the monuments how can any of

it be of any value to me. but 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. 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 fact it took them 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 taken a stand and to be a simple message out to the world. a. is. such. a thing of the rebellion represented for us because

it will fix celebrate our consciousness from sixty five until about seventy one again activity you know that of all time low the so many young people with joining organizations like the student or the. already. growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african american organizations committed to instigating change from within. the former 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.

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 bust 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 those. farmers lost an intent to chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. blacks to meet while black panther found his huey newton and bobby seale faced arrest and lengthy 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 him 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 rosa called the crips. you see. 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 credited as the crips founding member. 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 crip and blood sets because 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 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 call her mark feel badly. when i was gang banging and when the mother would roll come out with you come the mother when you don't know nobody mother don't you got. west side of his bloods on the inside of us is crips just around in 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 serve the parks were claimed as turf. you can go it is gas it was guess no call. you can go to bed already because you want to own neighborhood. you got some of action when you fall and you would tell them you know i'm from

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