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The United Blood Nation, also known as the East Coast Bloods, [4] is a street and prison gang active primarily in the New York metropolitan area. [3] It is the east coast faction of the California-based Bloods street gang. [2] Their main source of income is the trafficking and sale of illegal drugs. [3] [7]
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 ...
Grape Street Watts Crips, West Side Piru, [2] 118 East Coast Crips [3] [4] The Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] also known as the Bounty Hunter Bloods , is a " set " of the Bloods gang alliance situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles .
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.
Shanice Dyer, a member of the East Coast Crips, was treated with kid gloves after prosecutors opted to try her as a juvenile in the 2019 killing of two innocent men because she was only 17 at the ...
This marked the first Crips murder against another gang member and motivated non-Crip gangs to align with each other. The Brims struck back on August 4, 1972, by murdering Thomas Ellis, an original Westside Crip. By late 1972, the Pirus held a meeting in their neighborhood to discuss growing Crip pressure and intimidation.
The Nine Trey Gangster Bloods or Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (NTG) [6] (also referred to as Bentley's or Billionaires) [7] [8] [9] are a "set" of the United Blood Nation street gang, [10] which is itself a set of the Bloods gang. [11] [12] [13] The gang operates on the East Coast of the United States. [11]
Braylin Brown, documented by Fort Worth police as a Crips street gang member and monitored as a person connected to the Rolling 60s, one of 38 Crips sets in the city, feuded with members of other ...