In April 1992 — days before unrest would erupt citywide after the police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted — a small group of gang ... gangs in Watts: the Grape Street Crips ...

instilling fear and attempting to assert control in neighborhoods including Florence-Firestone and Watts. The Kitchen Crips is a predominantly Black gang that claims as its territory an area of ...

A member of the Grape Street Watts Crips gang cradles a shotgun A teenage member of the Crips poses with his little brother draped in the gang's coloursCredit: Getty Images Up to 15,000 deaths are ...

Adopted by: The Crips (specifically L.A.'s Rollin' 60's ... team's five-star pointed logo—a star which also symbolizes the gang. Rival Folk Nation (their main symbol is the Star of David ...

He was an original gangster in the PJ Watts Crips. Back then, a reporter asked him why he got out of gang life. “What is there? Killing? Killing another black man? Robbing another black man?

said he immediately recognized the hats' colors from his work with former gang members. "My fear was that the wrong kid was going to wear the wrong hat in the wrong neighborhood and get hurt," he ...

The alleged shooters — members of the Rollin' 30s Harlem Crips — believed Jacobs ... just speculation about the color of a hat, to suggest Jacobs was mistaken for a gang member.