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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.
Omar Portee (born c. 1969), [1] also known as "O.G. Mack", is an American gang leader, known for founding the United Blood Nation gang while serving a prison sentence at Rikers Island, New York, in 1993.
The United Blood Nation was formed on July 16, 1993, when incarcerated gang leaders Omar "OG Mack" Portee and Leonard "OG Dead Eye" McKenzie allied several gangs – including the Nine Trey Gangsters, GKB (G-Shine), Sex Money Murder, 183 Gangster Bloods, Valentine Gangster Bloods, and Blood Stone Villains – to protect members from the dominant Ñetas and Latin Kings gangs.
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), have been in a gang war since around 1971. [36] [37] It has mostly taken place in major American cities, especially L.A., but is also present in Australia, Belize, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
The 16 were members of a street gang based near the intersection of Livingston and Lonsdale streets in Columbus, a small subset of the Bloods. The Bloods are a street gang founded in the 70s in ...
“YSL claims affiliation with” this gang, the indictment says. “Bloods gang members typically and often will disrespect the rival Crips by avoiding the use of the letter C,” often replacing ...
The name "Piru" is derived from the Piru Street Boys, a gang which was founded in 1969 by Sylvester Scott and Vincent Owens in Compton. [3] The Piru Street Boys are considered the forerunners to the Bloods, [4] which is why the terms "Piru" and "Blood" are often used interchangeably.
A member of the Blood Stone Villains street gang has been sentenced to 25 years to life after he murdered a rival in Brooklyn. Jamel Dossie, 34, learned his sentence in Brooklyn Supreme Court ...