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The Black gangs, which started as protection groups, began fighting each other. But in 1965 after the Watts Rebellion, much of the violence between the gangs dissipated. Members instead focused on fighting police brutality and other social injustices. Black gang activity declined in the years following with a turn towards political advocacy. [7]
The Black Hand was a criminal society, but there were many small Black Hand gangs. Black Hand extortion was often (wrongly) viewed as the activity of a single organization, because Black Hand criminals in Italian communities throughout the United States used the same methods of extortion. [33]
The extortion practice of Italian criminal organizations in New York were often referred to as Black Hand operations. [ 5 ] Italian immigration "made fortunes for speculators and landlords, but it also transformed the neighborhood into a kind of human ant heap in which suffering, crime, ignorance and filth were the dominant elements", according ...
Italy has been shaken by the alleged gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in front of her boyfriend in a public park in the Sicilian city of Catania, the latest in a string of shocking sexual attacks ...
This list includes Italian American mobsters and organized crime figures that operate in the United States, both past and present. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( April 2017 )
Community organizer Corey Rogers, 50, right, of the Black P. Stone Nation, showed The Post a whatsapp thread used by gang members that included threats of turf wars with Venezuelan gangbangers.
South Brooklyn Boys (abbreviated as SBB) was a famous New York City street gang. In the 1950s, various Italian-American gangs were formed in South Brooklyn, New York City, and came together under the moniker of "South Brooklyn Boys" sometime around the 1950s. The gang had a mostly Italian American membership.
The gang's name refers to the neighborhood in Rome, the Magliana, from which most of its members came. The Magliana Gang was involved in criminal activities during the Italian "years of lead" (or anni di piombo). The organization was tied to other Italian criminal organizations such as the Cosa Nostra, Camorra and the 'Ndrangheta.