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In 1996, a group of South Side Compton Crips led by Orlando Anderson attacked Trevon Lane, a Mob Piru Blood, at Lakewood Mall. [2] During the altercation, Anderson allegedly stole Lane's gold Death Row Records chain, which was a gift from Suge Knight.
Orlando Tive Anderson was born on August 13, 1974, in an African-American household in Compton, California. He had a secure childhood with his grandparents after his parents split up. His mother worked 12 hour shifts as a bookkeeper to support her children. [3] Anderson joined the South Side Compton Crips gang at some point in his youth.
Armenian Power graffiti in Little Armenia, Los Angeles MS-13 graffiti. This is a list of notable criminal gangs in Los Angeles, California.. The County and the City of Los Angeles has been nicknamed the "Gang Capital of America," with an estimated 450 active gangs with a combined membership of more than 45,000.
Later at Mary McCloud Bethune Junior High, he fell in with a group of kids who included Raymond Washington, who went on to form the Crips with Stanley “Tookie” Williams, another South L.A. native.
On July 21, 2021, Representative Maxine Waters requested the United States Department of Justice to investigate the existence and actions of the Compton Executioners. [8] In the 2021-2022 California State Legislature session, the legislature passed 2021-2022 Assembly Bill 958 . The act requires all law enforcement agencies to enact a policy ...
East side of Compton but active in Houston, Newark, Norfolk, Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Birmingham: Ethnicity: Primarily African-American: Allies: Cedar Block Piru Campanella Park Piru Westside Piru Compton Varrio Locos: Rivals: Mob Piru Tree Top Piru Southside Compton Crips Santana Blocc Compton Crips Front Hood Compton Crips Park ...
The Crips and the Bloods, two majority-Black street gangs founded in Los Angeles (L.A.), have been in a gang war since around 1971. [36] [37] It has mostly taken place in major American cities, especially L.A., but is also present in Australia, Belize, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Albert Camarillo, right, a Chicano studies scholar and author of "Compton in My Soul," a memoir about growing up in Compton during the 1950s and 1960s, speaks at Color Compton on Aug. 24, 2024.