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Stanley Tookie Williams III[1][2] (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles. He and Raymond Washington formed an alliance in 1971 that established the Crips as Los Angeles' first major African-American street gang. During the 1970s, Williams was the de facto leader of ...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) fought heavily against the gangs. In 1987, the LAPD started an intense anti-gang operation, Operation Hammer . The operation was controversial, as it led to mass incarceration which did not greatly reduce gang violence, and included the vandalism of people's homes; in response, the various gangs gained a ...
The Kitchen Crips is a predominantly Black gang that claims as its territory an area of South Los Angeles east of the 110 Freeway. ... deaths police are attributing to the gang members, all of ...
English. Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a 2008 documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America who have been at war with each other. The documentary focuses on the external factors that caused African-American youth to turn to gangs and questions the political and law enforcement ...
Sanyika Shakur. Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Dejohn Scott; November 13, 1963 – June 6, 2021), [1][2] also known by his former street moniker Monster or Monster Kody, was an American author and former gangster. He was a member of the Los Angeles -based Eight Tray Gangster Crips. He got his nickname as a 13-year-old gang member when he beat and ...
The gang is now at the center of the killing earlier this month of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer. Officer Fernando Arroyos, 27, was shot to death the night of Jan. 10 near the ...
Raymond Washington. Raymond Lee Washington (August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979) was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. [1] Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in South Los Angeles, becoming a prominent local crime boss. In 1971, Washington formed an alliance with Stanley ...
In 1997, members of the 118 East Coast Crips shot a school bus in the hopes of killing members of the Bounty Hunter Bloods, killing 17-year-old bystander Corie Williams instead. [3] [4] In 2003, shots were fired at Los Angeles Police Department patrol officers in two incidents in the Nickerson Gardens projects.