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  2. Raymond Washington - Wikipedia

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    Greg "Batman" Davis, a friend of Washington and an original Crips member, stated "People in the prisons was losing their loved ones on the streets and because Raymond was the founder of the Crips, they blamed him for it. And since Raymond was the only Crip up there (at Deuel) at the time, they were trying to kill him." [citation needed]

  3. Crips - Wikipedia

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    Crips traditionally refer to each other as "Cuz" or "Cuzz", which itself is sometimes used as a moniker for a Crip. "Crab" is the most disrespectful epithet to call a Crip, and can warrant fatal retaliation. [45] Crips in prison modules in the 1970s and 1980s sometimes spoke Swahili to maintain privacy from guards and rival gangs. [46]

  4. Crips–Bloods gang war - Wikipedia

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    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.

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

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    After one of their own was killed, the men began targeting Bloods, in some cases killing and wounding bystanders, prosecutors say. Prosecutors accuse 9 alleged Crips members of carrying out ...

  6. ‘Smoke, drink, chill’: Crips murder trial witnesses recall ...

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    The trial of three alleged “Insane Crips” gang members accused of killing a South Carolina man at Columbus’ Wilson Homes apartments appears headed into a third week.. Gang prosecutors with ...

  7. African-American organized crime - Wikipedia

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    Immature teens without leadership soon became involved in criminal activity and by 1972 one of the first gang murders of the time took place. Many factors, including severe radicalization, caused these violent street gangs to surface, one such gang being the well-known Crips. By the 1990s, over 270 gangs emerged and an epidemic of homicides ...

  8. Raleigh Crips gang member sentenced for conspiring to kill rival

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    A member of a Raleigh gang is headed to prison for 11 years after plotting to kill a rival gang member, according to the U.S Attorney’s Office. ... At the direction of Crips members Dexter ...

  9. Stanley Williams - Wikipedia

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    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.