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true. god. doesn't walk around in sound sincere preaching. on scripture books would be more than thirty odd years one of the longest one in more than a used to the truth. can always be someone else is ready to kill me because of where i'm going to take over here in q one of them when they come home each one of us finally born until you came god run away get out of this is what i want to hear it
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over the past twenty years alone in the l.a. county there's been over fifteen thousand game related. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be mediators that would go to be aware. of what minute i was born in to downgrade and i'm the guy and. i would choose my destiny my destination shows me. 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
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a grid between 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 there's 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 twice it's also the home of america's two most infamous african-american gangs crips and bloods as 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.
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in the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd become us 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 of america. my mother take me up to the scout to be good you robert plant where the original blue if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there go up there to join the boy scouts my mother did not the scoutmaster. it was nice. but it kills my mother well i don't
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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 businessmen gladiators and sloss and black teenagers began forming their own street plants returned. to the neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated pollution won't want the sixty second to open call slawson that's where the name comes from to. sussex evolved into what many consider to be a lace first modern african-american game. but we never called ourselves that
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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 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 a. code you had to be there because everybody else in town knew but here with. this occurred how good are those things i say these days why do i say i would be cheering here in atlanta we're back to the studio here to go sideburns off. before we. just what we call wolf in those. you know i was going to him that's what he
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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 really just a competitive they 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 a lot of. young black men in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures possible. their views as being people.
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will commit crimes. than one hundred fifty eight in one thousand nine hundred eighty six the los angeles police department was commanded by chief we are. the parker police department like a military unit and the people who border brought us were black residents we've got it out there are 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. 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.
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getting close alameda foot no reason at all east of alameda these away areas linwood south gate 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 it looks like i've been robbed. that's why out of the robber bunch of looks just like you. so the idea was to create not only a segregated society but the idea that those of darker hue were in theory and should be treated as such. and after
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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 pole 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 a damn business 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 and. you stop and ask anybody else in a society why do 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 that tell me what message there might be and fear every day you know honest. every
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case feed me a spoon for the heat treat. every day that's my. spunk. you see. it's just a question of when is this going to erupt and appall 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 on obvious 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
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less than two blocks from this 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 his mother rena and brother ron 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 walked up one hundred fifty to now would not draw as my quarter from the dartanion assuming 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 minutes. the
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a fifty over one thousand watts residents are surging up and down up along the 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 room a. large man. oh you're. going. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet. at two pm a meeting was called the 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
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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 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. the taking. 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.
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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 that. 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 at night one of. these in such disarray and with facing cops in the street . and they want to move the crowd back. so when we move forward. and so you're looking at one of the. and your
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reading of people and the body language that says it's going to build. in a fire from around. the so now. please let friday morning additional police were called in from all points of l.a. to squash what authorities were now termed a full scale. length to the call of the right to look. we were doing. guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because you never gave the so-called legal intelligence to be spread to some of the in. her little
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clip 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 a sixteen thousand national guard. little national guard particulars on a really 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 leads to a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot.
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making. the wrong time at the wrong intersection. claimed by police is it feels a little bit worse 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 all of your a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect one of the most trivial of offenses. crediting 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 and.
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that's been the lun taboo. is that black people and other the 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. the same 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 the mall was 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 hopes i'm not on. i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake
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a lot. 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 a simple message out to the world. it. is. such. a thing of the rebellion represented for us was it feels that celebrate christmas from sixty five until about seventy one again
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active you know. 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 activists. believe. to be beat. this new black power structure quickly found itself in the crosshairs
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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. may turn around and squash those. from his last intent the chapter founder alpinist bunch e-card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student meet while black panther found issue a new and bobby seale faced arrest and libby jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders and either been
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incarcerated. or sas. they ran him down and chased him down and out of the 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 development rose the call the crips. you see. in the late one nine hundred sixty s. and the black cop 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.
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exactly which set our neighborhood true first place and why you never be known. for 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 from well from. the u.s. this out is what we know from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus you go to enemy to have a to come across normandy you dot. com called farm are still battling.
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wells gangbang if you want the month old come the moment you come to london and you don't know nobody mother again you die all west side of his bloods on each side of us is crips just around in a box you know me 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 this was gives no call. you can go to bed for he she already has you in a row neighborhood. little you got some of action when you fuck and you would tell them you know i from nowhere home you can all say but you got some of the action she just blow your head off just because we
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