How The Bloods Gang Actually Works | How Crime Works | Insider
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Published 2024-06-13
He became a member of the Bloods in the early 1980s. According to Townsend, this was for protection from the dominant Crips gangs in his neighborhood. He discusses his involvement in drug dealing and gang activities, as well as being a target of drive-by shootings.
Townsend speaks with Business Insider about his experience as a gang member, the recruitment, and the rivalry with the Crips. He talks about gang signs, culture, and music. He also covers the role of celebrities and groups affiliated with the Bloods, such as Suge Knight and Death Row Records, in gang prevention within California.
After his release from jail, he began a career as a tow-truck driver and later founded the gang prevention and intervention organization 2nd Call to support local communities in LA, focusing particularly on the youth.
Find him here:
www.2ndcall.org/
00:00 - Intro
00:32 - The Beef
03:00 - The Shoot-outs
04:04 - The Culture
06:30 - The Money
09:53 - The Rules
10:44 - The Hierarchy
13:44 - Going To Jail
16:10 - The Police
17:27 - The Aftermath
19:05 - The Future
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All Comments (21)
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When the gangs ask you to check in, how many suitcases do they allow?
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To all the real ones in this comment section who left their old neighborhood, town, city or old friends completely behind and you life has been at peace and on the uptick ever since.
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My man said he carried a gun because he just wants to go home. Damn that got me. :(
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Skipp been around for a min man...Seen him in an LA Riot doc
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What’s crazy to me is how these people fight and die over neighborhoods, blocks, etc. That they don’t even own. City/government owns them. They’re killing for things that aren’t even really theirs. It’s just so pointless at the end of the day.
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It’s wild watching this one, the crip guy and the Mexican Mafia guy all basically say the same thing basically.
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Man, of all the EX active dudes I've ever heard, this dude made the most sense and was the most straightforward and honestly should speak all over the country about this sort of thing.
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I know who definitely lost... our communities. Ridiculous especially coming from what we came from in the 50 and 60 fighting for civil rights.
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Shout out to OG Skipp Townsend. Keep spreading that peace and positivity
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Abridged version: you stand around, you sway back and forth, You talk loudly over other people, or you mumble something to the effect of “shiiiniia.” This is it. This is the movement.
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He's a Elder in Los Angeles & well Respected I watch Skipp channel
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What a shame, dude sounds intelligent and carries himself respectfully. Imagine what he could've become if he didn't get pulled into that garbage.
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Yo what size are your shoes, they're my size run em😂😂😂😂
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The producer knowing what CP stands for; well researched
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Skip is one of my favorite cause he doesn’t just talk about fixing the problem he has boots on the grown in these neighborhoods as he says his story’s are great redemption story’s an I’ll watch him anytime I see him being interviewed
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Remember this guy of the crips and bloods made in america documentary
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This has been the most destructive force in the Black community. We have to stop blaming everyone else and look in the mirror. Gangs have killed more Black men than anyone else. And why do we never hear of all the innocent young Black men who lived in these communities that were harassed or killed by these gang members? The gangs were/have been the biggest threat to innocent Black men rather than the Police.
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Great interview
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Me with no contacts in: "when tf did Vin Diesel get into the Bloods??"
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Very ineresting and educational, thanks.
