• andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      Yeah. The high school I worked in had 107hoovas, which is a group of Crips. Pretty sure we had Bloods too, but the hoovas were the ones defacing my desks. Also worked with some South Side Locos.

      Kid walked out of my chemistry once to go jump someone in the bathroom, because they ignored gang lines when redrawing the district and put rival gangs in the same high school. He only got one day of suspension, and they threw away the write up I gave him for walking out because he also got written up for the “beating the shit out of someone in the bathroom” thing and they didn’t want to “punish him twice for the same incident”.

      Edit: I just googled that kids name. He died 2 years after I knew him. Fuck. He was smart, he was capable, he just made god awful decisions.

      • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        That was really their name?!

        You’re listening to 107.5 The Hoovas! (Gun cocking sound) The tri-state area’s number one source (n-n-number one s-s-s-ource) for all the best classic rock! With Johnny Gonads and Kelly Smokeytits in the morning! Weather (thunder clap) on the fives and traffic (tire screech) on the sevens!

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      Yes, but they are each multiple different things. It’s complicated.

      Michael Hobbs does a breakdown of the modern myth of the American gang in a pod episode of You’re Wrong About… on Buzzsprout, dated 2019-08-22, if you want a deep dive of what Crips and Bloods really are about.

      It goes well with the recent LWT main story on police gang lists, which are secret like the DHS no fly lists, and like NF and the even more obtuse terrorism watch lists and like the gang database, can be used to justify denying civil rights or liberty to travel to private persons.