Hidden historical corner: the "cry" formed by American gangs

Foreword:

In 1980s, the classic American gangster film The Godfather was born, and Marlon Brando played the godfather Vito, which pushed the secret and bloody gangster story to the forefront.

At the beginning of this century, the word-of-mouth gangster games fistful of dollars 2 and Grand Theft Auto produced by R Star Company vividly interpreted the legends and disputes of gangsters from the American West in the19th century to the Los Angeles metropolis in the 2 1 20th century, and were deeply loved by players all over the world.

Today, Quentin's Hateful Eight and Netfilx's Irish are still obsessed with gangster movies, and the audience's enthusiasm for this theme never seems to diminish.

So, how did the "American gangster" come into being? Are they really as wonderful as movies or games?

In the 1990s, gangs in the northeastern United States fell into conflict again because of urban revival and ethnic migration.

By 2008, according to incomplete statistics, there were more than 600 gangs in the whole Northeast, 17000 members.

Among them, gangs in Pennsylvania are the most active.

For thousands of years, the famous gangs in this area include "Cripple Gang", "Latin King Gang", "MS- 13", "Neta" and "Bloods".

Rodney described to the outside world in detail how he knelt down and raised his hands in the air when he was arrested, and then slowly tried to move to avoid making any "stupid moves", but he was eventually beaten unilaterally by police officers.

After the trial, four policemen were accused of using excessive force. Strangely, three of them were acquitted and the jury failed to convict the fourth policeman.

Within a few hours after Rodney was released, ethnic minorities could not stand the long-term unfair treatment in American society, and the result of Rodney incident once again made their accumulated anger reach a critical point.

So, 1992, there was a riot in Los Angeles.

The riot lasted for six days, with 63 people killed and 2,383 injured. It was not until the direct intervention of the California Army National Guard, the US Army and the US Marine Corps that the riots gradually subsided.

The federal government had to restart the ruling on the Rodney incident. 1On April 6, 1993, two policemen involved in the case were sentenced to prison, while the other two were still acquitted.

1994, in another civil lawsuit, the jury ruled that the city of Los Angeles should be liable for compensation and awarded Rodney $3.8 million in compensation.

Gang power gradually spread with anger. On the far side, in the southern part of the United States, some gangs started their activities in the 1980s, which was unprecedented.

From 65438 to 0994, Mary Beth Pelc, a criminologist at UHD, believed that Texas lacked "a rich history of street gangs" compared with other regions.

However, she also said, "Gangs in Houston began to develop as early as the 1980s."

According to an article published in Texas Monthly in 2006 by author Skip Holland Worth:

With the continuous growth of gang members and factions, cocaine and other drug transactions have gradually become the main source of all gangs in the United States.

These dirty money can be used to buy weapons, expand personnel and seize more territory. Violence never stops.

According to the relevant data of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the number of vicious violence incidents in the United States surged from 288 in 1985 to 1993 to 1362.

Even more thought-provoking, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation pointed out in a report in 2008 that 1-2% of the members of the US military were connected with gangs. As of April 20 1 1, the intelligence center has determined that at least 53 gang members are serving in the US armed forces.

For a time, secret stories between the FBI and gangs were rampant and conspiracy theories were overwhelming.

It seems that gangs in the northeast of the United States began to take shape from the19th century, and now the gangs in the United States are also very arrogant. This short period of 200 years is actually an epic masterpiece in which immigrants compete with aborigines, colored people compete with whites.

People kill each other in the competition for resources, and regard skin as a weapon to protect themselves and identify enemies.

Until the recent events of George Freud and jacob black in the United States, the contradiction between black and white has been fermented again and again, and there seems to be a bitter indignation.

As the most powerful immigrant country and superpower in the world, the United States is caught in the human rights issue on which it depends, and it is in jeopardy.

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