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love doesn't walk in south central. on the books will be more than thirty odd years one of the longest one in more than if you. can always someone else is ready to kill me because i'm aware of. the gulf be it until one of them make a movie you want to let me born until you came down. run away get out of it what if you don't want to hear it over the past twenty years alone in l.a. county there's been over fifty thousand game related to. 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 the u.n. . weapon a good album born brain damage die it. out until my death

a destination show. 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 a grid between the concrete ribbons of freeway. two miles to the west is the pacific coast highway and the beaches that among. five most of the north pole day are driving 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 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 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. to.

the one nine hundred fifty s. three friends from south l.a. ron byrd. grew up reaching for the 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 you're robert plant with the original blimp 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 the scout master. 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 troop. to say be prepared to do a good turn daily the scout is is trustworthy loyal friend it could just kind of be careful brave clean and reverent the that's the boy scouts of america bunch of races. with names like the businessmen to gladiators and sloss and black teenagers

begin forming their own st clement's returns to its. credit and i'm neighborhood was situated in an area where we were assigned and designated to see all possible successors are going to call slots and box that's where the name comes from to. you. tube. slots it's evolved into what many consider to be ellie's first modern african there. but we never called us l.z. that was something that the city and the police would describe the scene we were clubs. what drew me to sloths and was that 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. you have to be there because everybody else in town knew but you know . 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 whoop your sideburns off. before we. just what we call wolf and oh you know i was going to hit this one scene 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 would you do just as i'm doing to. 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 cross the. they're viewed as being people who. 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 the police department like

a military unit and the people who bought it brought us word of black residents that 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. 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 we couldn't go there you had cops they didn't want you to 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 the car and say didn't you hear it's called you a shepherd say you know my name is not you so you know get up against the 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 darker. you 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 going. i mean a damn thing is where i came from. a time out where you go. people ask me what are you doing here you go anywhere ask anybody else what they do and. you stop and ask anybody else in a society why you exist. going to stay out of san you have 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 there might be and fear every day so you know understand it every day speed me a spoon for the hatred. every day that's my. spoonful 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 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 him pounding fries despite being less than two blocks from school. mother. join the rapidly growing crowd with mark that grew increasingly belligerent of what they felt was the heavy handed police response l.a.p.d. reinforcements who called him. and his mother 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 woke up one hundred fifty to. quarter from the. what happened he said jumped on market. we just got more and more it was a cumulative thing it was one racist two minute. wealthy british.

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as. a fifty or one thousand watts residents were surging up and down up along. about one am spike twenty nine arrest the sporadic reports of endings the situation was assessed by the l.a.p.d. has been under control. you're. going. there's the morning dawn tense but relatively quiet.

at two pm a meeting was called 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 dr in america have demonstrated that 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 a phone tonight if you like. this week the negro people down here have got. to tell 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. it in oppressed as we would take to be. 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. the. crowds of topical 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 one of. these in such disarray and we're facing cops in the street

. and they went to move the crowd back. so when we moved. and so you're looking at one of the. and your reading of people in the body language that says it's going to build. in a fire. it's own now. 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 life. listening call it a right to look. we were don't. see it as guerrilla warfare but the reason that you

can't say it is because of the so-called equal up intelligence to be spread this enough throughout. 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. little national guard particulars honestly 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 suit a virtual free fire zone where people could be shot. making . the wrong time at the wrong intersection. claimed by police is that these looters that 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 a bottle of beer a case of beer. that is to say people were being killed for what can retrospect one of the most trivial of offenses. really 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 crime home along with which we're confronted and of the only thing they understand as far somehow. 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 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 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 down from a barbecue ship 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.

a finger to be buried in representing for us it was a real fix celebrate consciousness 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 the fans already. is growing black pride moved saw the development of dynamic african-american organizations committed to instigating change from within. the former street fighters like byrd and ron now fought 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 botched 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 goes. from a slawson intent the chapter founder alpinist bunchy card and john huggins were gunned down at a u.c.l.a. black student meeting while black panther founders huey newton and bobby seale

faced arrest and limpy jail sentence. in a few short years many of america's most influential. black leaders either been incarcerated . or sat. 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 element rose the color 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 bloods. 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. the u.s. this out is where we go from a stall model kill or be killed. wash

go to any type of a day cavity to come across normandy you die. come call them are still battling. wells gangbang if you well know my good will come out if you come in the mud and you don't know nobody mother don't you die all 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 gangs. certain streets certain alley certain stores certain schools served in parks or claim deathstar. you can go it is guess it was guess no call. you can go to bed or getting older because you were wrong neighborhood.

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