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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 ...
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In 2017, three members of the Rollin 90s Neighborhood Crips were arrested for the murder of 21 year-old Justin Holmes, who was wrongly identified as a member of the Eight Trey Gangster Crips. The case received national attention, as one of the defendants, Cameron Terrell , was white and came from an affluent background.
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.
In the early 1970s it became the turf of the Avalon Garden Crips gang led by Jimel Barnes, who lived in the project. [3] [4] In the late 1970s the buildings began to deteriorate and they experienced an increase in crime. By the early 1990s it was labeled as a "war zone" and was dominated by drug activity and violence.
Bloods, "Hoover factions", "Eight Trey Gangster Crip (83GC)" [1] The Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips is a " set " of the Crips street gang alliance based in Los Angeles, California , originally formed around Hyde Park, Los Angeles in 1976 from the Westside Crips and having since spread to other cities in the United States.
A gang change. At one time, gang members in the Braggtown set could also be part of the Crips as well as other homegrown gangs that hung out in the Hoover Road public housing area.
Raymond Lee Washington (August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979) was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. [1] Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in South Los Angeles, becoming a prominent local crime boss.