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Bloods members commonly call themselves CKs (Crip Killer), MOBs (Member of Bloods), dawgs, or ballers (meaning drug dealers). [25] The gang has a membership of between approximately 15,000 and 20,000 active in 123 cities and in 33 U.S. states, [ 2 ] primarily on the West Coast and, to a lesser extent, the Great Lakes region and the Southeast ...
Wardell Fouse (July 22, 1960 – July 24, 2003), also known by his aliases Darnell Bolton and Poochie, was an American Bloods gang member who was implicated in the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Fouse belonged to the California-based gang known as the Mob Piru Bloods. Since Fouse was deceased by the time his alleged involvement became known to ...
Williams' former rivals, the L.A. Brims and the Chain Gang, joined the Blood alliance and became The Brims and The Inglewood Family Bloods, respectively. As leader of the West Side Crips, Williams became the archetype of the new wave of Los Angeles gang members that would engage in random acts of violence against rival gang members and innocent ...
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 ...
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.
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 core members of the Damu Ridas were from two different Blood gangs: the L.A. Denver Lane Bloods and the Crenshaw Mafia Bloods. The two gangs have been close allies for decades and are still allied today. [14] B-Brazy, Peanut II and Lil' Laniak II were from the Denver Lanes.
Regis Deon Thomas (born June 16, 1970) [1] is an American convicted murderer and Bloods gang member who was sentenced to death for the 1993 murders of Kevin Michael Burrell and James Wayne MacDonald, two officers in the Compton Police Department who were shot dead during a traffic stop in the City of Compton.