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The Bloods are a primarily African-American street gang which was founded in Los Angeles, California.The gang is widely known for its rivalry with the Crips.It is identified by the red color worn by its members and by particular gang symbols, including distinctive hand signs.
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), California, have been engaged in a gang war since the 1970s. [30] [31] The war is made up of smaller, local conflicts between chapters of both gangs, and has mostly taken place in major cities in the United States, especially L.A.
The Crips are a primarily African-American alliance of street gangs that are based in the coastal regions of Southern California.Founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1969, mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams, the Crips began as an alliance between two autonomous gangs, and developed into a loosely connected network of individual "sets", often engaged in open warfare with one ...
After one of their own was killed, the men began targeting Bloods, in some cases killing and wounding bystanders, prosecutors say. Prosecutors accuse 9 alleged Crips members of carrying out ...
The Crips quickly became the biggest street gang in South Central by both numbers and territory, however, numerous gangs still resisted losing their independence. These hold-out gangs formed a similar alliance to combat the Crips' influence, branding themselves as the Bloods, and would become their fiercest rivals. Williams' former rivals, the ...
Incredible images from a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta show members of the Crips and the Bloods tying their flags together in a display of unity.
The gang is perhaps most known for its longstanding rivalry with the Grape Street Watts Crips which has been described by gang experts as "the most violent and long lasting feud between two gangs that are in the Watts area". [8] In 1992, the Watts truce was declared which saw a rapid decline in violence between the two street gangs. However, by ...
In 1993, the Bloods & Crips released their debut album entitled Bangin' on Wax for Warlock Records. One year later, the group's second and final studio album, Bangin' on Wax 2... The Saga Continues was released. After Bangin' on Wax 2, the Bloods & Crips parted ways, with the Bloods becoming the Damu Ridas and the Crips becoming the Nationwide ...