Townsend commands respect across a broad swath of Black gangs from Crenshaw to Inglewood to Compton. Townsend, 60, is long past doing time in county jail and flaunting his allegiance to the Rollin ...

A Brooklyn Crips member was charged Tuesday with a nearly decade-old murder, accused of whacking his gang’s leader to avenge the death of a close friend. Jason “Twin” Soto, 36, lured Cypress ...

Straight Outta Compton director Gary Gray makes it clear ... Another Witness episode covers the truce between the rival Bloods and Crips gangs during the riots, alluded to in the film with a ...

18) brokering the start of a truce between rival gangs Treetop Pirus and Fruit Town Pirus as members joined him in solidarity for a peace walk through Compton. Hundreds of community members showed ...