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the boss. doesn't walk around and sausage pretty much. on scripts and books will be more than thirty odd years one of the longest one in more than the history of this country. and can always be someone else is ready to kill me because of where i'm going to go over to you and kill one of them make a movie kill one of us and i'm free born until you can dogs run away get out of this what is going on here over the past twenty years alone in the only county there's been over fifteen thousand game related to. if good fifteen thousand people killing each other or in any other country there would be diplomats there would be
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mediators that would go to be aware. of what minute i was born in a downgrade and i'm a die and. i didn't choose my destiny my destination chose to be. in the southern portion of the richest city in the richest state in america is a cluster of neighborhoods the streets and boulevards laid out in the great dream concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles of the west is the pacific coast highway and the beaches that among. five most of the north jewel deal drive in beverly hills.
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seven miles to the east to corner of hollywood life 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 was bloody forty year feud was taken by the 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.
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go 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 taking up to the scout to be good your rubber plant where the original bill if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there so i go up there to join the boy scouts my mother to go to the scout master. it was nice but it tells my mother well i don't know what some of the parents might object because it was a white troop. today's day be prepared do a good turn daily the scout is. trustworthy loyal friend he could just kind of be
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cheerful brave clean and referee that's the boy scouts of america a 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 climb from sixty second to call slots and that's where the name comes from m. . and m. . slawson evolved into what many consider to be l a's first modern african american game. but we never called ourselves that that was something that the city and the police like to scrap the said we were clubs. but through me to slow simplicity they mirrored who i was and it made one feel like
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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 as a. code you had to be there because everybody else in town knew but you know with. this occurred how good are those things i say these days why do i say i would be cheering landover back to the studio here to cure sideburns off and brows off before we. just what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to him that's what he said and he's a dunce you know you looking for somebody to tell him i'm getting a phone. it wasn't really about destroying somebody else just a competitor. thank you no just competing with.
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this time of produce all the time. my mother. always said you know what did you do just as i don'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.
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g. parker ran a police department like a military unit and the people who boarded brought us were black residents. are. 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 away areas linwood southgate you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you there and black that name. to cross the line were quickly put in place by police officers.
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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. 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 work in theory 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.
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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 business well going. i mean a damn business where came from. where you go. people ask me what are you doing here you go anywhere to 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 to ask me that all day every day what do you think that does to me psychologically what does it tell me what message that might be and feed every day so you know understand it in every case feed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my doc spoonful the hatred. you see. pan. just
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a question of when is this going to erupt and appalled whom is it going to erupt i will attack myself and i want 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 august eleventh one thousand and sixty five in the corners of a hundred sixteenth and avalon twenty one year old watts resident marquette frye was pulled over by the california highway patrol a suspicion of drunk driving a routine traffic stop until police insisted on him pounding fries car despite being less than two blocks from school fry's mother. join the rapidly growing crowd who along with marquette grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the
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heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements who called in a 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 one of the incidents swept through the neighborhood when i walked up one hundred fifty to now would not quarter from the dartanion to me 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.
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live clip. of the speech. with. some good. sleep. and. come out.
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the admission of three credit patience three. four judges three the arrangement three. three. three. three blog video for your media project a free media. tom in. fifteen a one thousand watts residents are surging up and down the
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about one am spike twenty nine arrests and sporadic reports of. the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. has been under control the are. 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 just. the cutting through a call for order came a voice that only the night before was raised by thousands in the street and out with a phone. whether you like. this week the negro
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people down here. you should suck it up we know it's real and you can sell it you greater than living it show that it doesn't work it doesn't destroy. it in a movie take it beat. the 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.
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to crowds of top ranking americans again filled the streets. but this time over two hundred feet deep and deputy sheriff's office. 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 we moved toward. them so you're looking at one and. and your reading of people and the body language that says it's going to build. its own now.
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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. legacy because of the right to look. we were doing. is guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because of the so-called. intelligence of the strategists 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. and then it probably is sixteen thousand national guard.
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little national guard particulars on a really trying to engage in civilian crowd completely at least. at that point they point to the other words which was the iron fist the aren't. a this these leads to a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making. the wrong time at the wrong intersection to. claim by police is abuse 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
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a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect with the most trivial of offenses. looting been undermined 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 of the only thing they understand as far somehow. 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. but this country uses violence whenever it chooses and then it legitimizes the violence.
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you say need to mess with my life is of no value how can your property and 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 a door for me is a rejection of us i'm i'm not. look i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake just. 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
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fact it took on a ship down from a big ship down 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 will 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. already. growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. that.
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group the former street fighters like byrd and ron now thought 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. or leave. 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.
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they turn around and squash those. promises lost in intent to chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john hugs were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student meeting while black panther found issue a new and bobby seale faced arrest and limpy 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 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.
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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 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. 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 america into a grid of rival territories. and . today these
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fractured communities are home to five generations of urban soldiers. really from well from. the u.s. this side is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus you go to any time they have a to come across normandy you die. come called harm are still baffled. wells gangbang to be well oh my good will come out will 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 means around about in the sex this was created over twenty years ago to where the geographics in the neighborhoods have been separated by gang. certain
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streets certain alley certain stores certain schools serve in parks or claim das turf. you can go it is guess it was guess no call. you can go to bed or getting older because you were on neighborhood. you got some of action when you fall and you would tell them you know hi from nowhere home you can all say but you got some of the action she just blow your head off just because we. on a binge amdo because now in my face way you format tell me to wallow from come down and i'm out of situation i wish i could just go and just be whatever i wanted to with man as other girls in other projects as men i just want to go the engines see me saying young hotties men i can even go to remind. them they are came.
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