It still sugar coated. Gangs nowadays and when he was in one wasn’t about defending your neighborhood. It was about money from drugs. Plain and simple. Gangs may have had that intent when they started in LA but this didn’t last for more than a moment. That is what history shows us
My brother was a crip. Killed in 1995. 18 years old "defending" a neighborhood that was gentrified in the early 2000's. Incredibly pointless. EDIT: Thanks for the kind comments. That ish is still very painful. A couple of things to note...My parents owned their house, and they still own it. My primary point is that gangbanging is stupid IMO, but honestly, if you grow up in certain neighborhoods you have very few choices. My brother made bad choices, I did not. Also the people asking me to name the city and set... I tried, but every time I replied youtube deleted it.
If your brother was never a gang member he would have still be here with a job & family living the life. Eating bomb @ss food. It sucks when you’re not the lucky one.
In the 90s, I remember so many kids in my suburban middle school idolized gang members and all of sudden said "they were from the hood". I was like "you grew up like 5 houses down from me in a cul-de-sac."
i was going down this path as a teen all my cousins and uncles are bloods, you couldn't catch me not wearing red, super glad i smartened up and got into cooking cant have time to be in the streets when you always in the kitchen.
i grew up with a lot of bloods. red bandannas in my bibles and things like that. and i ended up moving with my grandparents. although i miss it a lot. i’m glad im away from it, because i still have a life ahead of me .
I remember one guy telling his story. He got people out of gangs through Dungeons and Dragons. He knew people who wanted to play on both sides and set up a game and didn't tell them about the other people. Everyone shows up and it was tense, but luckily it didn't escalate. They started playing and had fun and did more sessions. The gang members had to start making excuses about where they were so their fellow gang members didn't get suspicious then they started spending less and less time with their gangs and eventually they made quiet exits. They guy got a hand full of people over several years to quit in favor of playing D&D.
That’s bc for most of these gang members, one of the subconscious needs that draw them to joining a gang is to have that sense of community and companionship and “family”. They all just want to feel like they belong and that the people around them care enough about them to even risk their lives to help them. Thats why so many gangs recruit teens going thru puberty (a time when you feel so lost and often so lonely and alone and don’t have the emotional maturity to cope with the emotions) or from broken homes or homes where their parents work so much that the kids basically have to raise themselves and don’t feel emotionally provided for. there’s other factors obviously but humans will never be able to outrun their most basic emotional urges and needs.
I just saw that video yesterday! It truly is an amazing story. People realized the joy they can have in fellowship and life and realized the pointlessness of a life of crime and violence.
now imagine just how bad things must be for them to choose those options. Let me guess, they're just irrational actors who actually had a bright flourishing future ahead of them?
If you grew up in it, you wouldn’t have to imagine it. You would understand it. Imagine these people judging those other people, yet have never walked a mile in their shoes. Imagine that.
Imagine being a cashier at McDonald’s in the 90s and have a grown man walk up to you and order a “curger” with extra “cacon” oh and I want a “boke” for my drink
When my son was in middle school in the late 2000s they had former gang members in conjunction with the police come in the school and talk with the kids about the dangers of gang banging. My deepest respect and thanks to men like them and Mr White for doing so. It definitely had an impact on my son and his friends and I believe steered him in the right direction.
I admire those who try to get on the right path, no matter how long they were on the wrong path. These guys have seen what it really is and are smart enough to walk away, then warn the next generation not to get caught up. That's saving our future.
all conflict and factions sounds dumb when you're not part of it... sometimes all that's needed is two group of young boys with two different colors of scarfs and that's is. I mean even where I live sometimes people k*ll each other over football clubs. there's not even money to be made in there. people just want to be part of something I guess...
Sounds like the army too... when I was younger it sounded cool to fight about your country till you get older and see how the country treats ex military and other races. Then you learn about how America bullies everyone then your like who tf joins the army
Im glad you were able to share your story and get out of the gang and live a more stable life. I really hope people see this video and truly reflect on the dangers that this kind of life could bring to them.
Tbh as much it sounds the right thing to do , most people don't want to reinvest in a gang riddle hood. No one wants to be tge land lord dealing with gang members as tenants. If you ever own any property, you know what one bad teant can do, give you that sour taste in ur mouth and call a quits. Most ppl make money and re invest where it'll make sense to own and have vaule. You can own half ur gang hood and still xome out broke. All these rappers saying they would change the hood if they own it, the same one will sell that property for re development/ genderfication.
People think gang banging is something to be glorified I grew up gang banging in Northern California as a Norteño and some of the things I did and some of the thing I risked going to jail or dying over were just plain stupid I’m glad I made it through with only a few battle scars
wow, I loved hearing about this issue from someone with the complex dichotomy of having been on both sides of criminality… massive respect to this man for providing a generally unbiased recounting of gang life and cop life, without condoning or exculpating the actions of either. it’s people like HIM who will ultimately change this broken system. Tyrone, keep using your experiences and voice to speak out and educate those around you, on all sides of the law. hopefully, one day we can reach a place without all the corruption and brutality that breeds the socio-economic and racial divisions propping up the gang system.
I grew up in the hood in the 60s and 70s. During my time the biggest handgun I ever saw was a 44 revolver but the weapon most common was a 38 revolver. Shootings were rare because of an un written rule of handling beefs with your hands and everyone walked away. What changed in the 80s was caused by the Iran Contra Scandal and I encourage you read the books by Gary Webb and Freeway Ricky Ross. Webb details the Governments involvement and Ross the effects it had in the streets. We had other Drugs but when crack came around it was highly profitable, highly addictive, affordable to the consumer until they lost their jobs or businesses. A Lawyer/Friend lost his practice when he switched from Cocaine to Crack.
Bro this needs more likes not that many ppl actually know about the Iran-Contra Scandal they didn't even teach anything about it when I was still going to school.
@@brandonfj5811you ever seen Snowfall? Obviously it’s Hollywood so it’s dramatized, but it’s a good show. Main character is loosely based on freeway, his plug was a fed moving guns for the “cause.” I knew about all that stuff before the show, it interested me a lot so I did quite a bit of research on it years ago. So when I heard about snowfall I immediately tuned in. RIP to the creator of the series, John Singleton. He did Boyz n the Hood. And of course, like other ppl said why would they want us to know about the gov doing any dirt like that? Not ideal for them in the slightest. Edit: same name btw lol
We’d be significantly better off if people still handled disputes with their hands. There were always shootings, but now ppl are petrified to actually fight and I don’t blame them. HIGH chance the loser is gonna go home and return with something etc. You can’t even use words anymore, Nipsey was trying to give back to his hood and show people the way out legitimately. He still got gunned down by someone in his own hood in front of his own business. Sad stuff. There’s a reason most ppl who make it out don’t return, Nip was a beloved figure in his community way before he passed. All it takes is one incident, one dumb kid with a fragile ego.
@@magikindianfacts I say this all the time. I don’t listen to drill music because it’s good music. I listen to it cause it’s like watching the hunger games. Always a new character then they get smoked in real life
I remember Tyrone. I grew up on 69th & Hoover. Around the corner from the Menlo's. We were the only Mexicans in that neighborhood at that time. From 77 - the early 80's. The Menlo's in those days were Able, Black T, C-Capone, Killa Rob, Oran & DeVonne Douglass, etc. Me and Devo were childhood best friends. I lost touch through the years. Good to see T in this video. God bless you all. *Just a correction. DeVonne (Devo) wasn’t a Menlo. His older brother Oran was. LAPD put DeVonne in the gang file as a Menlo under Devo. But he was never put on. Cops were really dirty back then.
This whole story reminds me of the old Roman strategy of Divide and Conquer. They would foster and nurture squabbles between different barbarian tribes, and in doing so they were able to rule large swaths of the world. They could do this openly, but it could also be done covertly, so that "beefs" that seemed to occur naturally between different tribes were actually fostered by Roman spies and proxies. You don't think that anything like this could have occurred in our society, do you? Nah, that's silly conspiracy theory.
"When you goin' against war with one another, there's no winners. Now you can look at it and say 'okay, i shot more of they homies than they shot of mine' or 'I killed more of they homies or they killed of mine' but both sides are taking losses. So if both of yas are taking a loss of life, then there's no winners." Wisdom.
Shout out to this guy for keeping it real, cause everybody wants to hate on ONLY gang culture but not hate on the context that made gang culture a way of life and how the state more often than not supports and proliferates gang’s existence.
Incredible journalism from Insider and salute to the OG Tyrone White for being courageous enough to share his story. Hope the cycle discontinues one day.
@@TheKince There are a lot of the classic signs of lying: He describes being part of the "crips and bloods" gangs. Any crip or blood would never say that... They would say they were either a crip or a blood not part of them both. Even a former one. 1:00 The way he describes getting his first gun he slows down his speech giving himself small breaks to think up the details. Especially when hes gonna mention the gun and he looks up to the right trying to make something up before actually saying it. 2:00 hes describing his memory of shootings in the 80s as: "You could literally turn on the news every day and you [something about a shooting]". So the way he's remembering that were a lot of shootings is from seeing it on the news. Not being part of it. I'm sure there are plenty more in this video but I'm done watching it just after 2 minutes. Please be skeptical about the things you hear on the internet even when it seems to be a credible source!
First starters, using “OG” as a salute of respect is certainly doing nothing to end the cycle. Kids wanna be an OG gangsta when they see old heads getting respect for it like this. Foolish
This thing that really hurts to hear is that people only unite to fight another group. It's never for a good cause except for pride. It's not just a gang thing. It's how we ALL are
@@CombatMedic1O people fight eachother over politics and sportsteams what are you talking about? Its human nature to identify with a group and fight to the death for it
@CombatMedic1O For most it doesn't give you any sort of freedom except poverty which is some of the worst in the developed world. Add to that medical costs that aren't seen in any other developed country and an incredible divide between rich and poor and an incredibly high incarceration rate and you find the perfect storm.
@@ddramos956 It’s definitely positive. He turned his whole life around and even if it may have took a while he’s sharing his story in hopes that other young men like himself don’t turn into this life.
I really like how he balances calling out racism and the police without exonerating the gangs and the "us vs them" mentality. That is still hard to find.
this might be the dumbest comment. no one ever exonerates gang members. if anything it just shows how similar police and gangs are. One is just state sponsored
I grew up in a mix of suburbia and a rural area. But when you're hungry, you do what you gotta do. Dudes a joke but Blue Face said it best "if I go broke, somebody gettin robbed" or "if I go broke then it's kick door." Point is different strokes for different folks, but at the end of the day I won't go to bed hungry.
You wait till chaos hits you think illegals with no mf allegence to American citizens going to be on best behavior? Let alone citizens. Honestly let's join together like America supposed to be. I love Jim Brown BTW... met personally did not know who TF he was so was just straight respect as person to person. Nice guy straight up. At golf tournament. I was taking pics he was registering in. I never knew who was what in sports at these events, SOME HAS BEEN OLYMPIAN was like you know who I am.. holding his putter like a P@nis .. no pal sorry.
I use to work at “killa king” hospital” doing interviews of victims of gang trauma. This was 1990-92 and we would get tons of teens from Nickerson Gardens and Imperial projects in the hospital. The ER during those days was insane. So much potential lost as a result of inward hate turned outward! Come on black people we must do better!!!
You won’t tho. You’ll continue killing each other while the rest laugh. The Mexican community in America has accomplished more here in 50 years as a people then blacks have in 150.
A lot of times I get serious anxiety, and I just feel like a loser stuck in my comfort zone. But after seeing youtube videos of so many messed up people, I honestly feel like I'm really not that much of loser in life.
not being in debt, having a form of education and a job puts you up there anyways bro. even if you never left your house the knowledge you want to do more puts you above others
To quote someone who did a lot of academic research on the subject, "I've asked eight different guys who were there, in the room, when the crips were founded and gotten twelve different answers about why they called themselves 'Crips'." No one knows how the crips got their name, there are some educated guesses but even the original sources gave conflicting answers. One thing we do know, however, is it was not originally an acronym for "Community Revolution/Resistance In Progress." That came later when, to skip a lot of context because it could it's own thirty minute video, someone had to come up with what CRIP stood for on some city paperwork and he decided to claim it was an offshoot of the Black Panthers.
A lot of gangs that exist now were splinters from the BPP. As the FBI and COINTELPRO went to work, the conditions that created the Panthers didn't go away (if anything, they got worse). Efforts were made to keep the party going under different names, but all of the leaders had been killed or jailed. Instead of being led by educated adults, you had 17 year old high school drop outs trying to run a civil rights organization with middle school drop outs.
The movie "Colors" ,which is older than Boyz In Tha Hood, is by far the BEST movie about Crips and Bloods and it's from the 1980's. It's MUCH better than the movies you mentioned
Same ishh in the Midwest. In the 90s so much was gang affiliated with GDs and VLs. Couldnt wear no Bulls attire or Georgetown Hoyas just to name a few. I always repped the Astros cracked 5 starter hat..
I never understood gang life, like I grew up to two parents that are from a foreign country, my dad doesn’t even speak English and we were in a neighborhood known for gang activity and I never once thought to myself “I guess I’ll join a gang”
Fatherlessness is the primary driver. Seeking brotherhood and respect and looking up to the older gang members who feeling that fatherless role. Don’t forget greed and attention seeking as well but I mean our into music and TV and movies creating criminal minds
"I grew up to two parents" there you go. Most of these folks are either missing a parent (often the dad) and/or their parents are into the street life / drug addicts I grew up in a place while not on this level of violence was pretty poor and had plenty of drug dealer, i knew most of the drug dealers from school, plenty went to prison. Only reason i i didn't turn out like that is because I was literally forbidden to hang out with them, i had a strict mom that wouldn't even let me use slang inside the house. that was a blessing
I remember growing up in the early 2000’s in south central couple minutes away from watts. I’m only 20 but I still remember the drive by, shootings, murders and how common they were. It rarely happens now but those were crazy times
@@gregdahlen4375 From my experience, a lot of families that were involved in gangs no longer live in that area, or they left that type of lifestyle behind due to having children. A lot of kids are more aware of the risk of being in a gang and instead pursue their education.
He's right. And I love the west coast and its cities; it could be easily be the best part of the country if they got their damn acts together. It's a massive culture and political problem
Its just a really negative thing I would easily call so many other things WC culture like Surf Culture, Tech Culture, Hotrods, Low Riders, heck even Seattle Grunge or Fisherman culture, maybe Native Indian culture, Chicano culture. Way before that damn Bloods vs. Crips crap.@@SpartanArmy117
@@reizayinYeah honestly. The South particularly Louisiana, Mississipi, North Florida, Georgia, and OK has the highest incidence of murder and drug related offenses per capita.
I love he specifically calls out none of the guns are bought legally. Because it's been tracked, most if not all guns used in gang violence are stolen or in some way illegally possessed
@1stHalf depends. Defacing serial numbers is becoming a little less common as it's just.. not applying as much anymore since people aren't tracing serials, just saying "hey they used a gun". Not saying they NEVER deface anymore just seen it less recently
@@Lechgang it's about the uselessness of making buying legal guns harder, if the crime they're trying to prevent isn't even done with legally bought guns.
@@Lechgang It really does matter. Left wingers are using crimes committed with illegal guns to take guns away from law abiding citizens that bought theirs legally. They don't care who you are, what you are, or how you act. If you legally bought a gun they want to take it from you; and they appear to legitimately believe that these criminals are buying them legally.
Gotta say. Thank you for doing this video and teaching us about all this. It's difficult to understand all of what's going on without someone knowing what it's really like on a deep level. You've lived it, and you're telling us about it. Thank you much! Sorry that the cops didn't work with you like they should've. Also, very happy you were able to make it out.
It's because white people were doing the beating. Same reason "Black Lives Matter" doesn't actually try to stop gang violence or improve black communities (even though I assume those black lives should matter too). They just want to get upset about white people.
...because no one is under any delusions about what gangs do and what they're for. Everyone knows gangs kill people, deal drugs, etc. It comes with the profession. Police on the other hand are expected to uphold the law and protect citizens. Seeing them do the opposite was infuriating. You have to remember everyone in LA knew the LAPD were crooked. The Rampart Scandal was known by the community before it was ever revealed to the rest of the country. With the Rodney King beating, now they had proof. There was video evidence of what the LAPD did every day to dozens of people, including those in gangs. Seeing those cops get off scot-free was just the match that lit the powder keg.
That’s what I don’t get. Black gangs are constantly killing and beating each other, dying literally everyday. But when a white dude does the same thing it’s somehow different?
Except your livelihood, your heart and everything in your home. Imagine being so primitive-minded, sheltered and arrogant you think you should actually "own" land to begin with.
LMAO 😂 " I was a cop and they was racists.. they were like how we gunna trust you? not even a minute later..." I was gang banging even when i was a cop , I was arrested" Lesson ??? trust your exitinct about ppl
What a fascinating story! I'm glad to hear this man was able to make it out because so many gang members' lives ended early, either in prison or a cemetery. I hope the situation improves in the U.S.; we Canadians want you guys to succeed. Good luck. ✌️
That's what made this authentic. Seems like the guy believes loyalty is worth more than doing the right thing for society. Without a strong family background or morals I guess we all would be that way, one neighborhood against another, kind of like how primates will fight over patches in the jungle. Dog eat dog. Even when he changed it was because he wanted to protect his family, not because he could care less about abstractions like doing the right thing. Racism against him also might have something to do with this attitude of 'crew society, what have they ever done for me?'
I think what he was trying to say was that because his police cohort didn't want to be friendly with him, he went back to gangs to fill that social void, and from there yes the crime followed. I don't even think it was about loyalty. When he tried doing the opposite and being an enforcer of the law he experienced hate. When he went back to breaking laws he had friends. It is sad, and you can tell from his voice he's kinda shocked/disappointed in his past self for making jail, especially because he did become a police officer. I'm sure he would have done the opposite if the police showed him love, and the gangs showed him hate.
@@emperorarima3225 he could've gotten an honest job anywhere and befriended his coworkers. He didn't get a taste for wealth on a newbie cop salary that's for sure
@@bennyhath1789 But he chose law enforcement, and when he did he did not succeed at befriending his co-workers. Yes he should have done something different, but understandably, when he was repeatedly looked down on as a ghetto criminal, he went back to just hanging out with his old friends. I don't know why we bother listening to people if we aren't going to listen. He gave the specific events, talked honestly about his past. Both being proud of his gang affiliation and hating gang life. He never mentioned money, just a need for belonging, and he made the (wrong) decision to just go where he felt he belonged. He legit sounds like a changed man now so I don't see the motive to lie about money being the motive since he's had an even more shameful reason to be a part of it. He admired gang members and wanted to be a part of that. And to be clear, I am not saying "rejoining the gang and committing crimes was the right thing to do", or excusable, just that it is understandable. The only reason I originally responded is because the original comment made Tyrone sound like a hypocrite, when he was more of a failure, trying to leave the gang, but being pushed away by the police, getting pulled in by the gang and allowing himself to succumb to those forces.
LMAO 😂 " I was a cop and they was racists.. they were like how we gunna trust me ? not even a minute later..." I was gang banging even when i was a cop , I was arrested" Lesson ??? trust your exitinct about ppl
Slumlords exist. I bought a property from one. He didn’t have insurance or anything. A ton of them end up getting really wealthy when these areas gentrify
The truly hidden bad thing about it all is those young men who don't want to be a part but don't want to be targets for not being a part. Most women and men never consider this.
Imagine beefing over a color, streets, blocks. They be driving hours to go into an enemy spot but they don't have time to focus on themselves to rather succeed in their hobbies instead. They be outside in front of liquor store whole day with 30 males sausage parties😂😂😂
imagine being so self absorbed that you try to belittle those that you see as below you. now IMAGINE ... letting everyone see you do it. NOOOOW imagine... posting that online for the internet to see it forever. imagine? oof. im glad im not that person.
I’m from Long Beach born and raised and my cousins are from Compton. I was born in 93. The early 2000’s was crazy when it came to drive bys too. I got family that are OGS from a bunch of hoods from 20s to nutty blocc to piru. Man it was crazy
More like lack of good teachers or businesses willing to work in crime infested areas. Chicago has businesses leaving in droves because of the crazy amounts of crimes committed in their employees and high rates of theft. The root of the problem is within the community
Hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars have been poured into urban areas over the last 50 years and what has changed? Food deserts are created by the people that live there. You can watch it happening in cities across the US right now. Local governments are allowing stores to be shoplifted into bankruptcy so they are closing. Schools in these areas have some of the highest funding rates in the country. Look up the Dept. of Education statistics. Clearly the problem isn't any of the overused talking points. The real problem is something no one is allowed to talk about, not even members of the very community in question, lest they be accused of "racism" or "white supremacy".
Nah, when a issue mostly effects black people it’s easy to get the non black public to just blame the black people for there own situation. This comment section is just as racist as I thought it would be.
@@adsafgasgasdfasdf That’s a false equivalence. The correct thing would say imagine if somebody blame the guy for starting the car and driving while drunk when the other option was he had no other way home. Those community’s where again devoid of opportunity to survive so when the government floods a community with nothing with drugs and guns and the alternative is to starve 100 percent of communities would have ended up the same way. Watching you put no fault at the feet of the blatant government sabotage is simply highlighting your bias against wanting to recognize any of the systemic sabotage that black communities deal with and you are no longer worth having this conversation.
Imagine spending all this wasted time and energy that you could focus on going to school or learning a trade to elevate your life and get out of the hood.
The thing I find facinating about gang culture is the diversity of how these different gangs work in different parts of the country like if you compared the late 90s LA scene to the late 90s NY scene
As video editors, let’s all agree to not use Adobe Podcast AI as much. I am guilty of it too, but let’s try to encourage our productions to get the audio right on-site first.
This is exactly how these stories need to be told, from the complex perspective of someone that has lived it.
It fucked my guy’s head,he lived in a different world.
super complex
Complex? Gang life isn't complex. It's what people with an inferiority complex do
Yeah super duper complex.
It still sugar coated. Gangs nowadays and when he was in one wasn’t about defending your neighborhood. It was about money from drugs. Plain and simple.
Gangs may have had that intent when they started in LA but this didn’t last for more than a moment. That is what history shows us
My brother was a crip. Killed in 1995. 18 years old "defending" a neighborhood that was gentrified in the early 2000's. Incredibly pointless. EDIT: Thanks for the kind comments. That ish is still very painful. A couple of things to note...My parents owned their house, and they still own it. My primary point is that gangbanging is stupid IMO, but honestly, if you grow up in certain neighborhoods you have very few choices. My brother made bad choices, I did not. Also the people asking me to name the city and set... I tried, but every time I replied youtube deleted it.
Cool!
I'm sorry for your loss. Genuinely.
@@cromano6830 you're disgusting
If your brother was never a gang member he would have still be here with a job & family living the life. Eating bomb @ss food. It sucks when you’re not the lucky one.
Rest in peace man
In the 90s, I remember so many kids in my suburban middle school idolized gang members and all of sudden said "they were from the hood". I was like "you grew up like 5 houses down from me in a cul-de-sac."
“Hard? Jimmy you always go home when the street lights come on. We literally rode your golf cart three houses down?!” 😂
-was the same for me in high school graduated in 2016 and i really doubt it’s gotten any better since then lol
That’s because music industry glorified gangster rap
You didnt have to add that bulljive in the end. You playing hard too mang hahahaha
Sadly it's still like that
i was going down this path as a teen all my cousins and uncles are bloods, you couldn't catch me not wearing red, super glad i smartened up and got into cooking cant have time to be in the streets when you always in the kitchen.
Glad you had a brainwave, just make sure you stay there bro. Stay safe!
i grew up with a lot of bloods. red bandannas in my bibles and things like that. and i ended up moving with my grandparents. although i miss it a lot. i’m glad im away from it, because i still have a life ahead of me .
What set do you come from?
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How much for a plate bro?
Everytime I see crips walk, I can't help but recall the South Park meme when they go "Wow, these guys really are crippled."
Lol
Whole op created by the See Eye Aye
That episode is what made me search "crips vs bloods" and find this video 😂😂
Lol.......we should pick some marshmallows and soda....
Ahhh😂
From Crip to Cop - from one blue gang to another - dude really does love the color blue.
He works at Sam’s club now look it up😊
Meanwhile his old rivals **riding as a firefighter **
Bro was literally officer tenpenny
Are you a crip? You seem salty
@@davidmontoya6672He needs to work for IBM next & then he’s done w/ blue 😂
LA Gangs are now a tourist attraction
That reminds me of the song How To Survive In South Central by Ice Cube
@@justingarrett2239he saw it coming
Just like O block
Fr so many people go there @@subzero-ws7wt
Good
I remember one guy telling his story. He got people out of gangs through Dungeons and Dragons. He knew people who wanted to play on both sides and set up a game and didn't tell them about the other people. Everyone shows up and it was tense, but luckily it didn't escalate. They started playing and had fun and did more sessions. The gang members had to start making excuses about where they were so their fellow gang members didn't get suspicious then they started spending less and less time with their gangs and eventually they made quiet exits. They guy got a hand full of people over several years to quit in favor of playing D&D.
That's freaking awesome, there really is 20 sides to every story.
Man, that is wholesome. Im glad that what to others is a silly game actually changed lives. That man changed lives
That’s bc for most of these gang members, one of the subconscious needs that draw them to joining a gang is to have that sense of community and companionship and “family”. They all just want to feel like they belong and that the people around them care enough about them to even risk their lives to help them.
Thats why so many gangs recruit teens going thru puberty (a time when you feel so lost and often so lonely and alone and don’t have the emotional maturity to cope with the emotions) or from broken homes or homes where their parents work so much that the kids basically have to raise themselves and don’t feel emotionally provided for.
there’s other factors obviously but humans will never be able to outrun their most basic emotional urges and needs.
I just saw that video yesterday! It truly is an amazing story. People realized the joy they can have in fellowship and life and realized the pointlessness of a life of crime and violence.
Your homie lived through a south park episode
Imagine the logic of these people fighting for no reason, and the grand prize is either death, or spending the rest of your life in prison.
That was the governments plan all along
Most start very young. Typical age to join is 10-14 years old. There's not much logic involved, it's about being part of something, having homies.
Sounds like the military going to war for nothing ! Yet they praise the soldiers ?
now imagine just how bad things must be for them to choose those options. Let me guess, they're just irrational actors who actually had a bright flourishing future ahead of them?
If you grew up in it, you wouldn’t have to imagine it. You would understand it. Imagine these people judging those other people, yet have never walked a mile in their shoes. Imagine that.
Imagine being a cashier at McDonald’s in the 90s and have a grown man walk up to you and order a “curger” with extra “cacon” oh and I want a “boke” for my drink
😭
Fuckin losers 😂
😂😂😭
No one ever did that lol
Cripmac did on 55 criiipppp😂😂😂@@victorespino5650
"Sticks and Stones can break your bones but Names can get you Shot?"DAMN....
Or colors
They dont need a reason
What you are hearing are excuses, not reasons
Mental Illness
Words in general can get you shot and killed.
Freedom of speech doesn’t exist in the ghetto.
describes my 3 years of High School...thankfully, I made it out. Some didn't.
3:43 "One of my big homeboys, he was a real ni- ...Very known" got me ahahahahahahhaha
Ahahha
the way I was reading this comment and then he said right after I was finished was hilarious.
When my son was in middle school in the late 2000s they had former gang members in conjunction with the police come in the school and talk with the kids about the dangers of gang banging. My deepest respect and thanks to men like them and Mr White for doing so. It definitely had an impact on my son and his friends and I believe steered him in the right direction.
Uh, Walter White?
Literally committed a robbery within a year or two of doing that 😂
I admire those who try to get on the right path, no matter how long they were on the wrong path.
These guys have seen what it really is and are smart enough to walk away, then warn the next generation not to get caught up. That's saving our future.
Dude just said he joined a gang because he liked the color blue...
He was so an adolescent. What do you expect?
Didn't he say he was 10 when they started grooming him. Your quite impressionable at that age
When I was in middle school, lots of kids made up gangs or got b**lsy and joined a real one, just to be cool.
Well, it first started out with a couple of questions before that.
First, what is your name?
Second, what is your quest?
😂
This sounds even dumber now than it did when I was 13 in 93'.
typical blks.. should be expected
all conflict and factions sounds dumb when you're not part of it...
sometimes all that's needed is two group of young boys with two different colors of scarfs and that's is.
I mean even where I live sometimes people k*ll each other over football clubs. there's not even money to be made in there.
people just want to be part of something I guess...
Sounds like the army too... when I was younger it sounded cool to fight about your country till you get older and see how the country treats ex military and other races. Then you learn about how America bullies everyone then your like who tf joins the army
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981Naah it's dumb even when you're in it.
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981100%. It's so depressing to see people completely throwing away the context that these groups exist in
Im glad you were able to share your story and get out of the gang and live a more stable life.
I really hope people see this video and truly reflect on the dangers that this kind of life could bring to them.
"Please don't die over the neighborhood. That your mama rentin' Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood. That's how you rinse it”
Don't sell drugs and gang bang to begin with and don't rob or murder either. All evil
selling drugs to your own people is treasonous business
Jay z for anyone curious
@@JP-np8fj it’s jay z. Story of oj
Tbh as much it sounds the right thing to do , most people don't want to reinvest in a gang riddle hood. No one wants to be tge land lord dealing with gang members as tenants.
If you ever own any property, you know what one bad teant can do, give you that sour taste in ur mouth and call a quits.
Most ppl make money and re invest where it'll make sense to own and have vaule.
You can own half ur gang hood and still xome out broke. All these rappers saying they would change the hood if they own it, the same one will sell that property for re development/ genderfication.
People think gang banging is something to be glorified I grew up gang banging in Northern California as a Norteño and some of the things I did and some of the thing I risked going to jail or dying over were just plain stupid I’m glad I made it through with only a few battle scars
Shut up chapete. Y’all were in the farms until La eme drop outs started the Norteno movement.
On 74hoover st agreed
Norteño from where ?what town
@@jayf8716 norteno from sesame street, over there up over the stairs.
Smart man glad you came to send and doing well all respect to you my brotha
Fighting for a neighbor hood that you don't own has to be the dumbest way to start an argument and still an ongoing active gang wars.
Easy for you to say
Gangs in general are dumb
Fighting? Humans fight?
@@bunk95 Yeah humans fight. But I don't see any countries like Norway have a massive gang war problem. Humans choose to fight.
@@Coizerino whats that supposed to mean?
wow, I loved hearing about this issue from someone with the complex dichotomy of having been on both sides of criminality… massive respect to this man for providing a generally unbiased recounting of gang life and cop life, without condoning or exculpating the actions of either. it’s people like HIM who will ultimately change this broken system.
Tyrone, keep using your experiences and voice to speak out and educate those around you, on all sides of the law. hopefully, one day we can reach a place without all the corruption and brutality that breeds the socio-economic and racial divisions propping up the gang system.
Thanks, Jodi.
Im thankful for the life I have
me too bro
Gratitude.
Life starts out as a lottery
Doin too much …
I'm thankful for your mommy
You can see them around LA driving on their wheelchairs throwing gang sings
😂😂
Everybody wanna put they dope on me; sayin' I won't get searched by the LAPD.
signs*
@@billmccormick4370 It be true tho
😂😂😂
I grew up in the hood in the 60s and 70s. During my time the biggest handgun I ever saw was a 44 revolver but the weapon most common was a 38 revolver. Shootings were rare because of an un written rule of handling beefs with your hands and everyone walked away. What changed in the 80s was caused by the Iran Contra Scandal and I encourage you read the books by Gary Webb and Freeway Ricky Ross. Webb details the Governments involvement and Ross the effects it had in the streets. We had other Drugs but when crack came around it was highly profitable, highly addictive, affordable to the consumer until they lost their jobs or businesses. A Lawyer/Friend lost his practice when he switched from Cocaine to Crack.
Bro this needs more likes not that many ppl actually know about the Iran-Contra Scandal they didn't even teach anything about it when I was still going to school.
@@brandonfj5811they don't want you to know about that..
@@brandonfj5811Why would they wanna teach that in school? It doesn’t fit the system’s narrative
@@brandonfj5811you ever seen Snowfall? Obviously it’s Hollywood so it’s dramatized, but it’s a good show. Main character is loosely based on freeway, his plug was a fed moving guns for the “cause.” I knew about all that stuff before the show, it interested me a lot so I did quite a bit of research on it years ago. So when I heard about snowfall I immediately tuned in. RIP to the creator of the series, John Singleton. He did Boyz n the Hood.
And of course, like other ppl said why would they want us to know about the gov doing any dirt like that? Not ideal for them in the slightest.
Edit: same name btw lol
We’d be significantly better off if people still handled disputes with their hands. There were always shootings, but now ppl are petrified to actually fight and I don’t blame them. HIGH chance the loser is gonna go home and return with something etc. You can’t even use words anymore, Nipsey was trying to give back to his hood and show people the way out legitimately. He still got gunned down by someone in his own hood in front of his own business. Sad stuff. There’s a reason most ppl who make it out don’t return, Nip was a beloved figure in his community way before he passed. All it takes is one incident, one dumb kid with a fragile ego.
Tyrone White, the first man interviewed did attend and graduate from the police academy. I attended his graduation. I’m also his nephew.
Same, im one of his uncles
This guy at 15 yrs old: *drive by shooting*
Me, today as a 37 yr old man: *eating one of my kids pizza lunchables*
Honestly, that's a better life in any sense. I'll pick yours in any lifetime
true, if you have a kid you have something to love and protect, these gang members oftentimes risk that
Why are pizza lunchables still so good as an adult?
@@papashield3I second that
That's just because you're a smart one.
Gang life has always been horrible.
It's a last resort. Same with prison culture - basically having a dry place to sleep and shitty food is luxury.
Just get a job lol@@holledervolksmusik9981
It might be horrible for you, but for the rest of us, it's the best reality show in history. Especially with social media
@@magikindianfacts I say this all the time. I don’t listen to drill music because it’s good music. I listen to it cause it’s like watching the hunger games. Always a new character then they get smoked in real life
@@djstackademikz its krazy all'ight - cities are renamed (O-Town), alliances rise and fall, like game of thrones with more glocks, moncler and smack
Imagine they killing each other and they’re from the same community
Don’t need to imagine! It’s happening everyday
Most killings are in the same community …
lol the mob did the same thing
These are the Lowest of the community, they Dumb and Dangerous, nobody should worry about them.
Different turf
I remember this times, it was crazy living in south central LA. Going out to party on the weekends was a 50/50
I remember being shot at for just partying every weekend back in the day
I remember Tyrone. I grew up on 69th & Hoover. Around the corner from the Menlo's. We were the only Mexicans in that neighborhood at that time. From 77 - the early 80's. The Menlo's in those days were Able, Black T, C-Capone, Killa Rob, Oran & DeVonne Douglass, etc. Me and Devo were childhood best friends. I lost touch through the years. Good to see T in this video. God bless you all.
*Just a correction. DeVonne (Devo) wasn’t a Menlo. His older brother Oran was. LAPD put DeVonne in the gang file as a Menlo under Devo. But he was never put on. Cops were really dirty back then.
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Hope you managed to leave that life behind you as well champ
I hope you're living a good life now.
This whole story reminds me of the old Roman strategy of Divide and Conquer. They would foster and nurture squabbles between different barbarian tribes, and in doing so they were able to rule large swaths of the world. They could do this openly, but it could also be done covertly, so that "beefs" that seemed to occur naturally between different tribes were actually fostered by Roman spies and proxies. You don't think that anything like this could have occurred in our society, do you? Nah, that's silly conspiracy theory.
@@theghostofspookwagen4715 Blessed bro. God got us through those hard times. The 90’s was fun but dangerous on those L.A. streets.
"When you goin' against war with one another, there's no winners. Now you can look at it and say 'okay, i shot more of they homies than they shot of mine' or 'I killed more of they homies or they killed of mine' but both sides are taking losses. So if both of yas are taking a loss of life, then there's no winners."
Wisdom.
Common sense
@@thebluejay3145 Wisdom is the ability to put common sense into practice.
Wait till you find out that most people have that “wisdom” to not join a gang in the first place
@@kingofwishfulthinking2490He was like ten, when they started initiating him. You’re not some genius for not being groomed as a child.
Tell me why are we so blind to see that the ones we hurt are you and me
"After you save lives, you have to create opportunities" 🔥
Shout out to this guy for keeping it real, cause everybody wants to hate on ONLY gang culture but not hate on the context that made gang culture a way of life and how the state more often than not supports and proliferates gang’s existence.
Incredible journalism from Insider and salute to the OG Tyrone White for being courageous enough to share his story. Hope the cycle discontinues one day.
Hes a fake. He's never been a gangster. It's a fabricated story.
@@Stat1onary "he's fake" source: Trust me bro XD
@@TheKince There are a lot of the classic signs of lying: He describes being part of the "crips and bloods" gangs. Any crip or blood would never say that... They would say they were either a crip or a blood not part of them both. Even a former one.
1:00 The way he describes getting his first gun he slows down his speech giving himself small breaks to think up the details. Especially when hes gonna mention the gun and he looks up to the right trying to make something up before actually saying it.
2:00 hes describing his memory of shootings in the 80s as: "You could literally turn on the news every day and you [something about a shooting]". So the way he's remembering that were a lot of shootings is from seeing it on the news. Not being part of it.
I'm sure there are plenty more in this video but I'm done watching it just after 2 minutes. Please be skeptical about the things you hear on the internet even when it seems to be a credible source!
First starters, using “OG” as a salute of respect is certainly doing nothing to end the cycle. Kids wanna be an OG gangsta when they see old heads getting respect for it like this.
Foolish
@@MegaSuperCritic No, kids want to make a few hundred dollars for 20 minutes of work.
This thing that really hurts to hear is that people only unite to fight another group. It's never for a good cause except for pride. It's not just a gang thing. It's how we ALL are
Yeh but most people are not trying to cause street war in the US...like for real why do this in the country that gives you the most freedom.
@@CombatMedic1O people fight eachother over politics and sportsteams what are you talking about?
Its human nature to identify with a group and fight to the death for it
They were fighting over drugs and money, the crack era was booming
@CombatMedic1O For most it doesn't give you any sort of freedom except poverty which is some of the worst in the developed world. Add to that medical costs that aren't seen in any other developed country and an incredible divide between rich and poor and an incredibly high incarceration rate and you find the perfect storm.
Speak for yourself. I'm my own man.
Having grown up in South LA and Compton this interview was very accurate and authentic. Good job bro! Continue to do positive things......
😂😂😂 "positive things"?! Right 🙄🙄
@@ddramos956 It’s definitely positive. He turned his whole life around and even if it may have took a while he’s sharing his story in hopes that other young men like himself don’t turn into this life.
As a, fairly new resident of Louisiana. This is a tutorial I do NOT want to skip.
Appreciate the video. 👍
I really like how he balances calling out racism and the police without exonerating the gangs and the "us vs them" mentality. That is still hard to find.
this might be the dumbest comment. no one ever exonerates gang members. if anything it just shows how similar police and gangs are. One is just state sponsored
Ladies and gentlemen, we found the moron. We got him!
@@PLACENAMEHERE-ym1zw well I’m still gonna stick to calling the cops instead of a gang-banger during an emergency
@@seansingh4421cops generally work only if ur white
@@seansingh4421until ya family member gets killed all of a sudden you want the person dead not alive in jail
I grew up in suburbia and this brother motivates me to want more for myself.
I’m broke but I won’t sell dope
When you can’t support your family with the jobs available to you, it can feel like it is your only choice.
I grew up in a mix of suburbia and a rural area. But when you're hungry, you do what you gotta do.
Dudes a joke but Blue Face said it best "if I go broke, somebody gettin robbed" or "if I go broke then it's kick door."
Point is different strokes for different folks, but at the end of the day I won't go to bed hungry.
@@nickb7514 most street gangs don't exist to make money they just gang bang
Francis Ngannou style!
Gotta start somewhere, majority of people start life broke and work their way up, just gotta put in the effort and stay motivated to get that bread.
Can't be robbing citizens and expect not to get touched.
Appreciate the testimony
You wait till chaos hits you think illegals with no mf allegence to American citizens going to be on best behavior? Let alone citizens. Honestly let's join together like America supposed to be. I love Jim Brown BTW... met personally did not know who TF he was so was just straight respect as person to person. Nice guy straight up. At golf tournament. I was taking pics he was registering in. I never knew who was what in sports at these events, SOME HAS BEEN OLYMPIAN was like you know who I am.. holding his putter like a P@nis .. no pal sorry.
This sould win an award for best short documentary.
I use to work at “killa king” hospital” doing interviews of victims of gang trauma. This was 1990-92 and we would get tons of teens from Nickerson Gardens and Imperial projects in the hospital. The ER during those days was insane. So much potential lost as a result of inward hate turned outward! Come on black people we must do better!!!
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don't forget the cia smuggling in drugs to black communities.
once you do away with this racialist ideology then you will improve. Read the Bible
Well Said .
You won’t tho. You’ll continue killing each other while the rest laugh. The Mexican community in America has accomplished more here in 50 years as a people then blacks have in 150.
A lot of times I get serious anxiety, and I just feel like a loser stuck in my comfort zone. But after seeing youtube videos of so many messed up people, I honestly feel like I'm really not that much of loser in life.
not being in debt, having a form of education and a job puts you up there anyways bro. even if you never left your house the knowledge you want to do more puts you above others
@thirddimensional, you write well spokenly, and intelligently, you're winning in my opinion
@@stoundingresults ironic
No your still a loser it's just your blessed compared to the others you look down upon😂
This mindset makes you a loser.
To quote someone who did a lot of academic research on the subject, "I've asked eight different guys who were there, in the room, when the crips were founded and gotten twelve different answers about why they called themselves 'Crips'." No one knows how the crips got their name, there are some educated guesses but even the original sources gave conflicting answers. One thing we do know, however, is it was not originally an acronym for "Community Revolution/Resistance In Progress." That came later when, to skip a lot of context because it could it's own thirty minute video, someone had to come up with what CRIP stood for on some city paperwork and he decided to claim it was an offshoot of the Black Panthers.
These videos are propaganda. psyOp. They’re setting the narrative for those who don’t know; and trying to gaslight those who do like you.
They were eating chips at the time, and they were Briish
Its because of the rico act, Look at when the crips were formed and when the rico act was formed... Not a coincidence.
A lot of gangs that exist now were splinters from the BPP. As the FBI and COINTELPRO went to work, the conditions that created the Panthers didn't go away (if anything, they got worse). Efforts were made to keep the party going under different names, but all of the leaders had been killed or jailed. Instead of being led by educated adults, you had 17 year old high school drop outs trying to run a civil rights organization with middle school drop outs.
@@getampedmiku12 that’s crisps dummy. Nice try doe
Thanks for this, this was very interesting. Glad you got to get out of the cycle of violence, hope you have a long and fulfilling life!
BOYZ N DA HOOD and MENACE TO SOCIETY represents that era
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Hardly
It was far far worse
Snowfall is a good example of the govt involvement in the trade
Milk comes from cows.
What are we doing here?
The movie "Colors" ,which is older than Boyz In Tha Hood, is by far the BEST movie about Crips and Bloods and it's from the 1980's. It's MUCH better than the movies you mentioned
When I first saw "blood" formed out with their fingers, I was legit impressed.
Sad
@@730holdings2 ah, ok.
Very sad
@LordHollow Yup no one here in LA does that or California for that matter.
@@complexblackness Thx. I have less than zero knowledge of the subject.
These youtube vids are getting intense lmao.
Right off the bat, 15 secs in: "of course I participated in drive-bys :)"
Real journalism. Thank you, Chris!
Grew up in the LA area, 1 year younger than this guy - it's amazing how much of this was common knowledge at the time, and seems so insane now.
These type of dudes never leave town unless it’s on a doc bus
Send us sum money blood
🤣😂
cus*
blood
this is why fathers are so important
Exactly
Nah, people with dads can become evil too, in fact plenty. We need Jesus, and of course, our REAL Father, YHWH.
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@@whathappened246 Bro speaking the truth 💯
@@whathappened246 Preach it brother🙏🏻🗣📣
Jimmy and Timmy already taught me how the crips work, thank you very much sir.
Imagine wearing k-Swiss back then & not knowing .. lol
Hahaha
Or eating crab legs like a slob
We had shoes called British knights. They banned them in our school because they had B.K. on the side.
@@Sjcstro84 lol , I'm old enough to remember them. I'm an early 90's baby. They were just phasing out.
Same ishh in the Midwest. In the 90s so much was gang affiliated with GDs and VLs. Couldnt wear no Bulls attire or Georgetown Hoyas just to name a few. I always repped the Astros cracked 5 starter hat..
I never understood gang life, like I grew up to two parents that are from a foreign country, my dad doesn’t even speak English and we were in a neighborhood known for gang activity and I never once thought to myself “I guess I’ll join a gang”
What neighborhood was that?
Key word there is "Parents" ......some gang members are searching for some for some form community or family .......thats where gangs come in.
Fatherlessness is the primary driver. Seeking brotherhood and respect and looking up to the older gang members who feeling that fatherless role. Don’t forget greed and attention seeking as well but I mean our into music and TV and movies creating criminal minds
"I grew up to two parents" there you go.
Most of these folks are either missing a parent (often the dad) and/or their parents are into the street life / drug addicts
I grew up in a place while not on this level of violence was pretty poor and had plenty of drug dealer, i knew most of the drug dealers from school, plenty went to prison.
Only reason i i didn't turn out like that is because I was literally forbidden to hang out with them, i had a strict mom that wouldn't even let me use slang inside the house. that was a blessing
@@sonnylambert4893they already knowin..they just dgaf
This is a great video! I'm thankful that you got out of that life and are sharing your experiences. Thank you so much!
Glad you survived long enough to share this with the youth.
Wow! Thanks for sharing your story. Way to turn it around and help educate others. I lost several friends to gang violence in the early and mid 90s. 😢
Gang members having a 'Sunday funday' is immensely amusing to me
I remember growing up in the early 2000’s in south central couple minutes away from watts. I’m only 20 but I still remember the drive by, shootings, murders and how common they were. It rarely happens now but those were crazy times
why does it rarely happen now?
@@gregdahlen4375 From my experience, a lot of families that were involved in gangs no longer live in that area, or they left that type of lifestyle behind due to having children. A lot of kids are more aware of the risk of being in a gang and instead pursue their education.
@@gregdahlen4375they all moved to Moreno Valley and Palmdale. And I concur that younger generations learned from others’ mistakes.
Drive bys are much harder these days most just do walk downs
@@Codlove-zv5mj and they still suck at marksmanship
Thank you for this.
I love how he calls murder and drug dealing "west coast culture"
He unknowingly admitted the truth. We have a massive culture problem.
Is he wrong?
He's right. And I love the west coast and its cities; it could be easily be the best part of the country if they got their damn acts together. It's a massive culture and political problem
Its just a really negative thing I would easily call so many other things WC culture like Surf Culture, Tech Culture, Hotrods, Low Riders, heck even Seattle Grunge or Fisherman culture, maybe Native Indian culture, Chicano culture. Way before that damn Bloods vs. Crips crap.@@SpartanArmy117
@@reizayinYeah honestly. The South particularly Louisiana, Mississipi, North Florida, Georgia, and OK has the highest incidence of murder and drug related offenses per capita.
Divide and conquer has been working for a very long time.
I mean, people say that like they are free of the choice to do it. If you stop, it doesnt work. They chose it.
None of these people are conquering anything.
@@strangewayfaringstrangersay that do they face then
Especially when you have a bunch of traitors of your own, doing it for money and fame.
PsyOp video.
GPS: "Turn right on MLK JR BLVD"
Me: No thanks I chose life
Heard this years ago "MLK and Rose Parks devoted their lives to peace, but the most dangerous streets in America are named after them."
You hear MLK IN VEGAS you know that the hood no doubt 😂
@@OtmbElsame in St Louis
@@michaeldaniel73it’s every major city in America. Really makes one wonder.
@@michaeldaniel73 Ditto in Memphis TN
when he said the "55 crips" lol i immediately thought of Crip Mac 🤣
Stop it!!!😂😂😂😂😂👍🏾🇬🇧🇬🇧🔺️👁🔺️
"My name is Daniel Bag, I'm a former fortune 500 CEO, and this is how crime works."
Masterful 👍🏾
Yes people buy our legal products and services.
Don't even need a profile picture to imagine who this comment would come from.
@@jamesharris40001bros never heard of white collar crime
Every body has a story to tell ? he change his life for his kids that was the best part of his story {Keep saving kids sir i respect that}
I love he specifically calls out none of the guns are bought legally. Because it's been tracked, most if not all guns used in gang violence are stolen or in some way illegally possessed
Most serial numbers are scratched off too tho
@1stHalf depends. Defacing serial numbers is becoming a little less common as it's just.. not applying as much anymore since people aren't tracing serials, just saying "hey they used a gun". Not saying they NEVER deface anymore just seen it less recently
Does it really matter? It doesn't seem indicative of anything.
@@Lechgang it's about the uselessness of making buying legal guns harder, if the crime they're trying to prevent isn't even done with legally bought guns.
@@Lechgang It really does matter. Left wingers are using crimes committed with illegal guns to take guns away from law abiding citizens that bought theirs legally. They don't care who you are, what you are, or how you act. If you legally bought a gun they want to take it from you; and they appear to legitimately believe that these criminals are buying them legally.
Killer, thief, dealer, still a community leader working towards positivity. The kind of leadership we need
Gotta say. Thank you for doing this video and teaching us about all this. It's difficult to understand all of what's going on without someone knowing what it's really like on a deep level. You've lived it, and you're telling us about it. Thank you much!
Sorry that the cops didn't work with you like they should've.
Also, very happy you were able to make it out.
I don't understand how both gangs hated what happened to Rodney King but they have no qualms about doing the exact same thing
It's because white people were doing the beating. Same reason "Black Lives Matter" doesn't actually try to stop gang violence or improve black communities (even though I assume those black lives should matter too). They just want to get upset about white people.
Personal beef is different
...because no one is under any delusions about what gangs do and what they're for. Everyone knows gangs kill people, deal drugs, etc. It comes with the profession. Police on the other hand are expected to uphold the law and protect citizens. Seeing them do the opposite was infuriating.
You have to remember everyone in LA knew the LAPD were crooked. The Rampart Scandal was known by the community before it was ever revealed to the rest of the country. With the Rodney King beating, now they had proof. There was video evidence of what the LAPD did every day to dozens of people, including those in gangs. Seeing those cops get off scot-free was just the match that lit the powder keg.
@@GTA_B lol just stupid
That’s what I don’t get. Black gangs are constantly killing and beating each other, dying literally everyday. But when a white dude does the same thing it’s somehow different?
This was a captivating interview, damn.
CRIPK
Thank you for sharing my brother 🙏
Imagine fighting and dying for a street you owe nothing on and no property
Except your livelihood, your heart and everything in your home. Imagine being so primitive-minded, sheltered and arrogant you think you should actually "own" land to begin with.
Someone needs to oil that damn film projector!
😂
Lmao
LMAO 😂
" I was a cop and they was racists.. they were like how we gunna trust you?
not even a minute later..." I was gang banging even when i was a cop , I was arrested"
Lesson ??? trust your exitinct about ppl
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What a fascinating story! I'm glad to hear this man was able to make it out because so many gang members' lives ended early, either in prison or a cemetery.
I hope the situation improves in the U.S.; we Canadians want you guys to succeed. Good luck. ✌️
"I felt like the other police were discriminating against me, calling me a criminal, so, anyway, ... I went back to robbing people."
:/
That's what made this authentic. Seems like the guy believes loyalty is worth more than doing the right thing for society. Without a strong family background or morals I guess we all would be that way, one neighborhood against another, kind of like how primates will fight over patches in the jungle. Dog eat dog. Even when he changed it was because he wanted to protect his family, not because he could care less about abstractions like doing the right thing. Racism against him also might have something to do with this attitude of 'crew society, what have they ever done for me?'
I think what he was trying to say was that because his police cohort didn't want to be friendly with him, he went back to gangs to fill that social void, and from there yes the crime followed. I don't even think it was about loyalty.
When he tried doing the opposite and being an enforcer of the law he experienced hate. When he went back to breaking laws he had friends. It is sad, and you can tell from his voice he's kinda shocked/disappointed in his past self for making jail, especially because he did become a police officer.
I'm sure he would have done the opposite if the police showed him love, and the gangs showed him hate.
@@emperorarima3225 Shows that for a tough guy like him he's still vulnerable to social pressure, which is understandable.
@@emperorarima3225 he could've gotten an honest job anywhere and befriended his coworkers. He didn't get a taste for wealth on a newbie cop salary that's for sure
@@bennyhath1789 But he chose law enforcement, and when he did he did not succeed at befriending his co-workers. Yes he should have done something different, but understandably, when he was repeatedly looked down on as a ghetto criminal, he went back to just hanging out with his old friends. I don't know why we bother listening to people if we aren't going to listen.
He gave the specific events, talked honestly about his past. Both being proud of his gang affiliation and hating gang life. He never mentioned money, just a need for belonging, and he made the (wrong) decision to just go where he felt he belonged.
He legit sounds like a changed man now so I don't see the motive to lie about money being the motive since he's had an even more shameful reason to be a part of it. He admired gang members and wanted to be a part of that.
And to be clear, I am not saying "rejoining the gang and committing crimes was the right thing to do", or excusable, just that it is understandable. The only reason I originally responded is because the original comment made Tyrone sound like a hypocrite, when he was more of a failure, trying to leave the gang, but being pushed away by the police, getting pulled in by the gang and allowing himself to succumb to those forces.
Imagine if these gangs weren't violent anymore and actually helped the community.
THEN the government would actively try to stomp them out.
Bingo!
Well I have news for you
They did it already with the Black Panther Party.
@@TheUAProdigy i guess..
@@chubs2312 lol, what?
Damn its crazy to see somebody whos actually like giving you their perspective
LMAO 😂
" I was a cop and they was racists.. they were like how we gunna trust me ?
not even a minute later..." I was gang banging even when i was a cop , I was arrested"
Lesson ??? trust your exitinct about ppl
Fighting over blocks they rent their houses on…makes a ton of sense right!???
A good amount of these families owned their houses lol
It's about drug territory. And if you think black gangs are bad. The Mexican gangs are even worse. Drug dealers are taxed by the Mexican Mafia.
Idk if it’s a good rental in LA….just saying 🤷🏽♂️
Slumlords exist. I bought a property from one. He didn’t have insurance or anything. A ton of them end up getting really wealthy when these areas gentrify
“When you’re going to war against one another, there’s no winners” *right out the gate* there’s something profound to chew on. Goddam
The truly hidden bad thing about it all is those young men who don't want to be a part but don't want to be targets for not being a part. Most women and men never consider this.
Imagine beefing over a color, streets, blocks. They be driving hours to go into an enemy spot but they don't have time to focus on themselves to rather succeed in their hobbies instead. They be outside in front of liquor store whole day with 30 males sausage parties😂😂😂
Right, that's childish and corny
Sounds a lot like the military
Sounds like the average Trump rally.
imagine being so self absorbed that you try to belittle those that you see as below you. now IMAGINE ... letting everyone see you do it. NOOOOW imagine... posting that online for the internet to see it forever. imagine? oof. im glad im not that person.
@@ember7fiveno your not intelligent enough to be your just another sheep towing the line and glorifying social inequality and inequity
"If you say burger, you say curger"
Iconic
Really enjoyed this video! It brought a lot of perspective in these gangs.
I'm glad to hear that things are going better for him!
I can confirm most of what he said. I was bangin' for Grove Street in San Andreas back in the mid-2000s.
I disagree
That’s cap brodell
Nah bruh it was back in the 90's when the game was based on that time period.
On GTA yes
Oh nice! We have crossed paths, Spencer. I bang for Culver City Crips as of right now.
I’m from Long Beach born and raised and my cousins are from Compton. I was born in 93. The early 2000’s was crazy when it came to drive bys too. I got family that are OGS from a bunch of hoods from 20s to nutty blocc to piru. Man it was crazy
lacks of resources, food deserts, no funding for schools or after school activities, but the root of issues will never be addressed
More like lack of good teachers or businesses willing to work in crime infested areas. Chicago has businesses leaving in droves because of the crazy amounts of crimes committed in their employees and high rates of theft. The root of the problem is within the community
Hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars have been poured into urban areas over the last 50 years and what has changed?
Food deserts are created by the people that live there. You can watch it happening in cities across the US right now. Local governments are allowing stores to be shoplifted into bankruptcy so they are closing.
Schools in these areas have some of the highest funding rates in the country. Look up the Dept. of Education statistics.
Clearly the problem isn't any of the overused talking points. The real problem is something no one is allowed to talk about, not even members of the very community in question, lest they be accused of "racism" or "white supremacy".
Nah, when a issue mostly effects black people it’s easy to get the non black public to just blame the black people for there own situation. This comment section is just as racist as I thought it would be.
@@Ball.Daily11 They're blamed more for causing violence than being affected by it. If it were the latter, they'd have everyone's sympathy.
@@adsafgasgasdfasdf That’s a false equivalence. The correct thing would say imagine if somebody blame the guy for starting the car and driving while drunk when the other option was he had no other way home. Those community’s where again devoid of opportunity to survive so when the government floods a community with nothing with drugs and guns and the alternative is to starve 100 percent of communities would have ended up the same way. Watching you put no fault at the feet of the blatant government sabotage is simply highlighting your bias against wanting to recognize any of the systemic sabotage that black communities deal with and you are no longer worth having this conversation.
Excellent video
Informative!
❤
ITS CARELESS TO JOIN A GANG BUT HIND SIGHT IS 20/20
Imagine spending all this wasted time and energy that you could focus on going to school or learning a trade to elevate your life and get out of the hood.
It's alot of gang members with Diplomas, degrees, and Certificates
@eazypaid8311 why on earth would someone with degree waste their time doing this
@@eazypaid8311 source? I made it tf up!
@@kyle1493they got degrees in selling drugs death certificates and diploma in drive by’s
Government was funding these dudes to destroy the community
I’m learning so much
Everyday comes with new information n learning.
This video brings a lot of the things I saw back in the day into focus.
Can't wait until Insider reposts this video in a few hours, or years.
The thing I find facinating about gang culture is the diversity of how these different gangs work in different parts of the country like if you compared the late 90s LA scene to the late 90s NY scene
how were they similar and different?
@@gregdahlen4375 the culture, the vehicles, the style of music, everything really
I didnt know all these doctors and lawyers go this hard.😂
As video editors, let’s all agree to not use Adobe Podcast AI as much. I am guilty of it too, but let’s try to encourage our productions to get the audio right on-site first.
definition of waste of lifetime
Most people in those communities don't feel their life has meaning anyways, so to them this is their love their family their community; the gang
Thats pathetic and no excuse at all
According to OneJazzKid
Precisely.
@@buki0141
Well I agree wholeheartedly with OneJazzKid
Shout out to this Legend for writing this history for us. Respect.
This story is sad but I'm grateful you shined a light on it