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When we got to the riots, at that point there were hundreds and hundreds of people starting to migrate to Florence in Normandy, so at this point everything broke out like wildfire, every car that came through the intersection that had a person white in him was When I was attacked I saw journalists being beaten I saw a cameraman being beaten and their cameras were taken away and at that time it didn't really matter what

gang

you were from because now it's a black vs white thing so no No It doesn't matter if you were blood or whatever, even though it was such a messy day, it's a day of AED use, it was also a day to rejoice because that was the first time in a long time that you saw. common enemies The

crips

, the bloods and the Mexican

gang

s unite against this common enemy, the LAPD, and after a few days of riding some of the community leaders like Jim Brown, the football player, a couple of leaders of popular gangs, some different gangs from different areas, different groups had a meeting and we decided that this was the perfect opportunity to try to achieve a peace treaty, a truce between the gangs, although it was something bad that made us get to that level , it was still an opportunity for us to unite things, peace.

The treaty officially lasted maybe a couple of weeks and continued to dissolve as weeks and months went by to the point where it no longer existed, but for that short time it was cool to have when gangster rap hit. He introduced a lot of Crips and when NWA came out, which is the group that started gangster rap, rest in peace, he was known for being and from him there were other pioneer rappers who were from neighborhoods, there was Snoop. Dog, you had the seed of Dove, uh, all these popular rapper groups that were in the neighborhoods representing their neighborhoods that were exploding into the mainstream and now you have people sitting at home watching MTV 106 in the park, they're watching all these video shows and We have these game members making rap videos with the blue rags and the six fos and the lowriders and wearing all the gang outfits and the gang uniform, but they're

actually

artists who make money on television and now it is transmitted everywhere.

All over the world, apart from the UK and the Netherlands, I have heard of the Crips in China. I heard there are some Crips in Africa that I have

actually

seen on online social media. uh people in afca crippling and just loving this west coast culture and I think. all of that all of these countries adapted to these American values ​​and these American customs just because of how they were glorified without really understanding the meaning of it they know that people lost their lives and people are killing this is not something with what to play in 1994 I went to Oklahoma I got a football scholarship to go to Oklahoma to play football, that's actually what saved me from getting killed or anything else bad happening to me on these streets of Los Angeles .

I played football there for two years at a historically black college in 1996. 97 I moved to Oklahoma City and started working at the Juvenile Detention Center. They needed a gang counselor and a gang trainer, so of course I was qualified for that, I just volunteered my time, talking to the kids and you know, educating them about gangs and telling them no. Since I had no idea Oklahoma had a gang problem, I went and sat down with the police chief to see exactly where he wanted me to go with this. I spent two years in the school system and they came to ask me.

I want to uh interested in transferring to the streets basically running traffic dragging people writing tickets blah blah blah um. I say, yeah, let me, let me do that. I'll do it, look, look how it is. CU. I actually want to see how the drug dealers were treated, with me being on the other side of the law and all the complaints I had as a criminal, all the police brutality, all the mistreatment by the police that I was able to witness, that's firsthand. . working with them and a lot of times I had to intervene like, wait, as you know, it was a couple of times where they had to have that conversation with me look, or you with us or you with them, so even in training at the academy as a police officer I dealt with racism I dealt with discrimination because a lot of those officers felt like this guy is a criminal this guy is from the street how the hell are they going to let him work with us blah blah blah that's it? why even after becoming a police officer and moving back to California I ended up reconnecting with my old friends and old gang members and ended up going to jail even after becoming a police officer I went to jail my experience with The Police Los Angeles still hasn't found a way to deal with communities and cultures they know nothing about.

It's the same tactics, no dirty cobs, false charges, planting drugs and mistreating because of who you are, what you represent, it's the same. hasn't stopped the only way the police can break away from the community is to continue working with those who want to work with them, the big U, as an example of guys from the '60s who like that, who are gang activists who are trying to do things to stop gang violence and help kids in the community and bring some positivity to the community the main thing is to save lives and after saving lives you want to create opportunities I went to jail in Oklahoma for robbery um since then when I was there it was for a robbery that I committed when I lived in Oklahoma when I returned to California in 2006 I went to jail again in 2009 for another robbery and they ended up discovering another robbery that I did and Combining the cases, I ended up taking a three-way contract years when I was first arrested.

They took me to LAPD headquarters, what they call the Parker Center. They transfer you the next day to the county facility, so I left the parking center. In the morning they put me on the jail bus and took me to the county jail, known as the Twin Towers. Normally you go to the tank. The tank is basically a holding area where you find a bunch of other members of the game and I'm talking about mixed in with Mexican Crips Bloods all and that's like a box of dynamite waiting to explode and at some point they put you in those situations and the officers just leave you and they don't care, they don't care, no matter what happens, there it happens and you will always find someone there who will challenge you, especially if you are from a rival gang, you hear the slang, you hear what they say or you can see people you haven't seen since elementary school and you lost contact with, you wonder where they were, this is where they are and you find out they're from a group, so you guys I just connect with one now if it becomes a racial thing, um Bloods and Crips , they already know.

They find a way to unite against whatever race they have to go up against, you know, there may be some violence that breaks out between transportation to the different dormitories of the different units, but for the most part in the spaces of the county jail with Crips Bloods with Bloods or sometime you see the general population where it's a co-ed dorm now don't get me wrong if I went in there as an mlo or there's a CRI 60 or 60 and they run into some Hoovers it's probably automatically bad blood. It doesn't matter that we are Crips and Recps, we are in the same unit, it doesn't matter, we have to solve this problem so that you can come in here and a Hoover can say hey hey hey you of menw I need that fade I need that fade, that allows you knowing that at some point you and this guy have to fight because you two don't get along in or out of prison and it makes no difference in the way you behave on the streets.

It's the same way you expected to behave in prison except at a higher level because it's a little more dangerous in prison than on these streets what made me change my life was my children when I took the scholarship for school I was in the process to change my life, I just didn't know it, but that was my beginning of change in my life and when I started working with gangs and talking to kids in schools and in juvenile prisons and I saw how I was communicating with them and how much They respected me for what I told them to try to teach them, it just made me want to change, it just made me want to keep doing positive things and that's what I've been. doing since I met someone one day and they told me I look like this, it's like you should go into acting, you should think about acting, so I started doing little acting jobs doing extra roles, so I've done several projects and I have been a part of several TV series and dramas and different things that have gotten my foot in the door of acting, so there is definitely something positive that could happen in my past that was negative, yes.