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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 of the west is a pacific coast highway and the beaches that among. five most of the north drilled 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 that's known 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 is taken by times as many lives as the long running sectarian conflict in northern ireland it was devastating body count continues today. but in selfless and. yes. life wasn't always this way. to. 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 good boy scouts of america. my mother takes me up to the scout to be good your rubber plant where the original blimp if one thousand nine hundred thirty three to nine hundred eighty three parked in our neighborhood right there what they were 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 of the parents might object because it was a white truth. to say be prepared do a good turn daily the scout is is trustworthy loyal friend the code is kind of be careful brave clean and referee the that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races . with names like the businessmen to gladiators and slawson black teenagers began forming their own street fight for targets. to hit the neighborhood

was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to see all possible sixty second interval call sausan ghosheh that's where our name comes from just. toot toot. toot. slawson evolved into what many consider to be l a's first modern african american garrett. but we never called us cells and that was something that the city and the police would describe the scene we were clubs. what 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 as a sense of acceptance you also have a way to wilson power because now you've got number. two in those

days we give you a point. that. you have to be here because everybody else in town here with. this occurred how good are those things i say these days why do you say i would be cheering here in atlanta we're back to the studio here to pure sideburns off. what we call wolf and oh you know i was good with my hands that's what he said and he does you know if you look at the somebody get a phone. it wasn't really about destroying somebody really 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 after a lot of. young black men in this society have always been represented as the most threatening figures possible. they're viewed 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. chief barker ran a police department like a military unit and the people who boarded brought us were black residents we've got it all far. bigger and. not that hard. and so the cops were treating me john 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 these away areas linwood south gate you couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you there and blacks that names 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 the car and say didn't you hear it's called and i saw heard say you know my

name is not you so no get up against a wall in such a soul and it look like i've been robbed. as well out of the rubble and she looks just like you. know. 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. 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. and i know that he'll dampen his work came from. tell me where you go. people ask you what are you doing here

you go anywhere ask anybody else what they do and. you stop an ass going to but also decide why you exist. going to stay out of san and you got the nerve to ask me that all day every day now what do you think that does to me psychologically what does it tell me what message i might be in fear every day so you know understand it every day speed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my back spoonful the hatred. you see. pan is just a question of when is this going to erupt and upon whom is it going to erupt i will attack myself and my going to tax my brother you understand i want tax my own image in your mind 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 fries despite being less than two blocks from home fries mother. joined the rapidly growing crowd long with mark that grew increasingly belligerent with what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements were 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 word of the incident swept through the neighborhood when i woke up one hundred fifty two now we're not quarter from the dartanion 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. wealthy british style holds. the. markets on scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news joining to cause a report. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those patients are diagnosed with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health

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may fifteenth over one thousand watts residents are surging up and down. about one am spike twenty nine arrest and sporadic reports of mandarins 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 in a neighborhood rec center simply representatives from various community groups elected officials the l.a.p.d. the media. even mean if i think that we must stay off the streets i think the civil rights dr in america have demonstrated that islands 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 not whether you like not i. this week the negro people down here. 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 little take that 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. 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 and we teach you to keep

within that. topic and 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 with facing cops in the street. and they want to move the crowd back. so when we move toward. them so you're looking at one of the. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build up. in the fire. the so now. please.

please. 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 if you call it a right to look over the hill we don't. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you can't say it is because the so-called legal ramped up intelligence to be spread this enough that the little. her little lead 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. 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 are. a this these soup of personal free cars where people could be shot. making. the wrong time at the wrong intersection. the claim by police is that these were 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 to follow your 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 los alamos flow with which we're confronted and of the only thing they understand is farce. that's been the learn taboo. is that black people and other will 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. sinitta masses my life is of no value how can your property how can 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 of us i'm not on. i'm not allowed to touch not allowed to partake 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 of i'm a ship from a big trip 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. a. is. such. a thing of the rebellion represented for us because it will fix celebrate christmas from sixty five until about seventy one again activity you know. all time low because so many young people with joining organizations like the student or they. are already.

growing black pride movement saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. five years like byrd and run the power rather than the 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. 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

described as the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. they turn around and squash those. former slawson intend to chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john huggins 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 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 them down a kind of down a murdered everybody did good and made their body else either go to exile or to lock them up and of going to gentry and when all that was over with

a new element rose up 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 order 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 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. really from well from. us this side is where we come from as a stall model kill or be killed. plus you go to any target they'd have to come across normandy you dot. com called our motley fool baffling. twelve game day and if you want the month old come out will you come the mother didn't you don't know nobody mother again you got. west side of us has blood on the inside of us is crips just around in

a box you know means 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 certain parks were claimed as 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 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 bench amdo because now in my face way you format tell me oh me told you i was from come down and i'm out of situation i wish i could just go to just be whatever i want to chill with men as other girls in other projects as men i just want to go

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