enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Crips - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips

    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 ...

  3. Crips–Bloods gang war - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips–Bloods_gang_war

    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.

  4. Debate over the origins of the Crips gang - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_origins_of...

    Despite becoming one of the largest gangs in the United States, the origins of the Crips gang is disputed, as different sources provide incompatible explanations about the origins of the group. [1] There are disagreements regarding the year the gang was founded, the motivation for forming the gang, how the gang was named and who the cofounders ...

  5. Bloods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloods

    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 ...

  6. Bloods and Crips stand together in solidarity during Atlanta ...

    www.aol.com/article/2016/07/11/bloods-and-crips...

    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.

  7. Stanley Williams - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams

    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.

  8. Prosecutors accuse 9 alleged Crips members of carrying out ...

    www.aol.com/news/prosecutors-accuse-9-alleged...

    The homicide victims whose deaths police are attributing to the gang members, all of whom were fatally shot, include Arron Sutton, 18, killed in Florence on Nov. 15; Christopher Woods, 61, killed ...

  9. Three accused of violent Crips gang initiation ritual

    www.aol.com/three-accused-violent-crips-gang...

    SCRANTON — Three people are facing charges after a juvenile was injured during a Crips gang initiation, law enforcement officers say. James Hankins, 33, of 1371 N. Washington Ave., Scranton ...