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Gangs rule their territories
through ruthless enterprises,
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fear,
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and a strict code.
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Deviate from this code
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or challenge their power,
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and retribution soon follows...
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especially for the infamous set
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within the biggest
and most ruthless street gang
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in Los Angeles,
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the Rollin' 60s
Neighborhood Crips.
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Here are three stories
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that track how the Rollin' 60s
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go from terrorizing
one neighborhood
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to all of Los Angeles.
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First, their brutality
is established
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on their local turf
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with a cold-blooded
contract hit.
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It was a daybreak,
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quadruple
home invasion homicide.
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[Narrator] Then
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their violent reputation
spreads across the city
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with the death
of an innocent bystander,
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turning the gang into the LAPD's
Public Enemy Number One...
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It woke up
not only the community,
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but law enforcement.
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[Narrator] ...and finally,
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The Rollin' 60s attract
the attention of the FBI
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when an O.G. becomes
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the most prolific bank robber
in history
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by training kids
to do his dirty work.
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The Crips convince
these youngsters
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to go into the banks
and do the robberies.
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[gunshots echoing]
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[Narrator]
These are the stories
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from The Rollin' 60s
Neighborhood Crips.
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This is Gangland Chronicles.
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1971.
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South Central Los Angeles.
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The area is undergoing
massive upheaval.
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The Black Panther Movement
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has disbanded.
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Police brutality and racism
run rampant.
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[bystander] Let him go!
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[Narrator] To survive,
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young men begin forming
neighborhood gangs.
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Many folks,
they formed these gangs
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because it meant a family,
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it meant people
who would back you up.
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[Narrator]
Two neighborhood gang leaders,
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Raymond Washington
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and Stanley "Tookie" Williams,
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decide to join forces.
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They call themselves the Crips.
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[Bowser] Raymond Washington,
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he was about building
and expanding this Crip movement
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throughout L.A.
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[Narrator] Washington
and Williams' mission
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is to roll up
all the surrounding gangs
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into the Crips,
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and dominate South Central
and beyond.
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They would go
to different communities,
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and they would tell
the communities
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to go and join the Crips.
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They were looked at as bullies.
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They were looked at
as an imposing force.
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[Narrator] By 1978,
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Washington and Williams
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have absorbed
45 neighborhood gangs
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under the Crips banner,
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and the most dangerous set
within the Crips
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call themselves
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The Rollin' 60s
Neighborhood Crips.
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The Rollin' 60s would stand out
above the rest, right,
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because they were more violent
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and more about
the gangster type of lifestyle.
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[Narrator] The Rollin 60s'
territory expands,
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and by 2004, there's
an estimated 1,600 members
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on the street.
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[Esteban] They're
involved in organized crime,
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they're involved
in drug trafficking,
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firearms trafficking,
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homicides,
kidnappings, extortions.
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They do everything.
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[gang members shouting]
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[distant sirens]
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When I was covering gangs
at that time
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for the L.A. Times,
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400 hardcore members
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had been arrested
over 3,500 times.
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[Narrator]
And in the summer of 1984,
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the Rollin' 60s'
ruthless reputation
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spreads throughout
all of South Central.
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August 31, 1984.
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Watts.
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Rollin' 60s Crips Tiequon Cox,
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Darren Williams,
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and Horace Burns
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are getting ready
to do a hit job
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for a local nightclub owner.
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[Gerould] There had been
a shooting in there,
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and a young woman
on her birthday was shot.
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She had a lawsuit
against the bar
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for a couple of million dollars,
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and he then hired
The Rollin' 60s
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to kill her
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to make the lawsuit go away.
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[Esteban]
$50,000 for murder for hire
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is a lot of money
in the mid '80s.
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That's probably at least
200,000 or 300,000 today.
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[Narrator] 18-year-old Cox,
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known on the street as L'il Fee,
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has a rep
as a ruthless enforcer.
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[Bowser] You end up
getting killed
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messing with that person.
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He's involved in all
the violence that's happening,
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all the crime that's happening
in that community.
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[Narrator] At daybreak,
Cox and his crew pull up
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outside a small,
well-tended house.
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Cox orders Burns
to keep the engine running.
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Cox has a .30 caliber
M1 carbine.
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[Narrator] What happens next
is a brutal mass murder
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that shocks South Central,
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and puts the gang on the map.
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[Narrator] August 31, 1984.
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Watts.
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Rollin' 60s Crips Tiqueon Cox
and Darren Williams
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enter a house
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to carry out a contract hit.
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[gunfire]
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She is shot multiple times
in the head.
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[Narrator] Then,
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Cox and Williams
enter a bedroom
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where a young woman
sits up in bed.
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[gunfire]
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She is shot.
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Also in the room
are two young boys,
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and they are shot
while still in their sleep.
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[gunfire]
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[Narrator] Once on the scene,
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LAPD officers are shocked
by the quadruple murder.
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[Katz] The four victims
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are members
of Kermit Alexander's family,
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his mother, his sister,
and two of his nephews,
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and Kermit Alexander
is a legend.
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[Narrator] Kermit Alexander
is a retired NFL player.
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The Alexander Family
lives down the street
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from the young woman
the club owner wanted killed.
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The Rollin' 60s
that morning in that van
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simply went
to the wrong address.
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It was a daybreak,
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quadruple home invasion homicide
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with the wrong victim.
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[Narrator] A month goes by,
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and it appears Cox and his crew
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might get away
with this heinous crime...
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until the LAPD
raid a stash house
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in Rollin' 60s territory.
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During the raid,
they actually found the gun
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that was used in the murders.
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[Narrator] LAPD question
17-year-old James Kennedy
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about the murder weapon.
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Kennedy holds
to the gangster's code...
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until the police
turn the screws.
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[Gerould]
The police say, "Okay,
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you're going to be on the hook
for quadruple murder,
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and the death penalty
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unless you decide
you want to talk."
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He says, "No, it wasn't mine,
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it was Tiequon Cox's
M1 carbine."
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[Narrator] Police arrest
and charge Tiequon Cox
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with four counts
of first-degree murder.
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By 1985,
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Darren Williams and Horace Burns
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are also in custody.
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Burns is convicted
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and sentenced to life in prison.
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Cox and Williams
are found guilty
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and sent to Death Row.
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But for The Rollin' 60s,
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this brutal and mistaken hit
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only serves
to grow their street cred.
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[Gerould] There's the idea
that being a little bit wild,
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a little bit berserk
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isn't always a bad thing
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because it keeps people
wary of you.
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It keeps people scared of you.
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[Narrator] The Rollin' 60s
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are known for killings
in South Central...
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[shots blasting]
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...but when they expand
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outside of their home turf,
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they become...
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Public Enemy Number One.
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1988, Los Angeles.
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The city is in the midst
of a crack cocaine epidemic.
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[Katz] Crack cocaine
changed everything
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about the gang world
here in L.A.
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because it was
access to quick money.
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[Narrator] The Rollin' 60s
are banking so much,
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they earn a new nickname--
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"The Rich Rollin' 60s."
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[Valdemar] We're talking
millions of dollars.
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They were dealing with
the Colombian cartels directly
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in the 1980s.
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[Narrator]
With profit margins so high,
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the Rollin' 60s are venturing
into new territories
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to look for more buyers,
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and so are many of their rivals.
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January 30, 1988.
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Westwood Village.
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It's a busy Saturday night
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in the fashionable neighborhood
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home to UCLA.
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It was a place
that everyone liked to go
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and see movies,
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or shop, or eat.
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[Narrator] Rollin' 60s
Durrell Collins and his homeboys
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are walking down the street
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when they spot
a crew of their rivals
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from the Mansfield
Hustler Crips.
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[Gerould] Crips fight Crips.
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The different sets
are constantly fighting
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amongst themselves.
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[Narrator]
The two sets trade insults,
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and after a Mansfield Hustler
makes a move,
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Collins pulls out a gun.
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[crowd screaming,
shots blast]
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[Narrator] January 30, 1988.
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Westwood Village.
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The standoff
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between Rollin' 60s gangbanger
Durrell Collins
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and a rival Crip
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is escalating
in this well-to-do neighborhood.
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Collins pulls out a gun
and opens fire.
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[shots blasting,
crowd screaming]
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He fires two shots,
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neither of which
hit the intended target.
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[Narrator] Terrified pedestrians
run for cover.
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Durrell Collins
ditches his weapon
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and vanishes into the crowd.
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[distant sirens]
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On the sidewalk
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lies 27-year-old
graphic artist Karen Toshima.
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She got caught
in the crossfire.
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She took a bullet in the head
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and died on the scene there.
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This was way out of
gang territory
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and completely unexpected.
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It got a lot of media attention
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and woke up
not only the community,
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but law enforcement.
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[distant sirens]
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[Narrator]
One week after the shooting,
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LAPD arrests and charges
Durrell Collins.
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At trial, he is found guilty
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and sentenced
to 27 years in prison...
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but that's not the end of it.
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The shooting death
of a bystander
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outside of gang territory
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triggers the LAPD
to launch a war on gangs.
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[Katz] The police response
was intense.
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City council, two weeks later,
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approved the hiring
of 150 more police officers,
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and that was the era
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of what the LAPD called
Operation Hammer.
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[Narrator] Operation Hammer
is a large-scale attempt
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to crack down on all gangs
in Los Angeles
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with the use of sweeping raids.
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More than 50,000 people
are arrested
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by the time it's disbanded
in 1990.
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Operation Hammer was the idea
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that we're going to have
a kind of zero tolerance
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on gang activities...
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and so while gang crime
did go down as a result of this,
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it also brought up
a lot of questions
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about civil liberties,
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and how much
do you want the police
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to be able to question people
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when they're not
committing a crime.
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So it started a real kind of
balancing act as far as that.
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[Narrator] Operation Hammer
forces The Rollin' 60s
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to curb the violence,
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but it doesn't stop them
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from looking for
new ways to score...
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and the gang
goes from LAPD target
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to the FBI'S Most Wanted.
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1992.
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Los Angeles.
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The city is considered
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the bank robbery capital
of the United States.
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The number of bank robberies
they committed in 1992
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translated to one bank robbery
every 42 minutes.
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[Narrator] The Rollin' 60s
are one of the first
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to entice crack addicts
to commit bank robberies
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in return for drugs.
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The old-fashioned way
of robbing a bank
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is with a note.
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It's a very quiet encounter,
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and that person passing the note
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typically wants to get
out of the bank
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as quickly as possible.
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[Narrator] Suddenly in 1991,
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violent takeover robberies
become the standard.
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A takeover robbery,
they come in blasting,
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and they intimidate people
and scare people,
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so a lot more violent,
a lot more dangerous.
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[Narrator] But then,
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the Rollin' 60s add a new twist.
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August 14, 1992.
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Downey, California.
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Without warning,
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the employees and customers
in a small bank branch
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are blindsided.
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[Katz] Kids,
some as young as 13,
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barge into a Wells Fargo
in a takeover style robbery...
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[blows landing]
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[automatic gunfire]
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[Narrator] Brandishing
semi-automatic weapons,
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two of the youths
empty the cash drawers
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while a third terrorizes
the people in the bank.
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It was terrifying,
it was violent,
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and it left people
in a position
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where they felt
"We're overwhelmed."
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[Narrator] But someone trips
the silent alarm,
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and before the youths
can get away with over $55,000,
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the police arrive.
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So the police have
these three kids
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surrounded in the bank.
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[police loudspeaker]
Come out with your hands up!
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[Narrator]
The juvenile bank robbers
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have no intention
of giving up peacefully.
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They smash a window
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in an attempt to get away.
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[Narrator] August 14, 1992.
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Downey, California.
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After storming the bank
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and terrorizing
the people inside,
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three adolescent bank robbers
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shatter a window to escape,
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but the police
have them surrounded.
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These kids come flying out
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through the broken glass,
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guns blazing.
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The cops
chase two of them down
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and take them into custody.
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[Narrator] The third bandit
makes a run for it,
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and a police officer
goes after him.
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[Bowser] He gets cornered,
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and so he turns around
and shoot at the police,
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and police shoots back.
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[shots blasting]
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[Narrator] The 15-year-old
is fatally shot.
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When the FBI interviews
the two boys in custody,
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they admit
they're working for an O.G.
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who goes by the name of Casper,
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but when pressed
to make an official statement,
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they refuse.
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With nothing
leading the Feds to him,
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Casper remains a ghost,
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and continues masterminding
hundreds of takeover robberies
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with other kids.
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[Esteban] He never
walked in the banks himself.
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Then he paid them
either in drugs,
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or a little bit of money,
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and he kept the proceeds
for himself.
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[Katz] Some
wanted to be in the gang,
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some wanted money,
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but all, like, disadvantaged
and vulnerable kids.
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[Narrator] Casper leaves
no physical evidence,
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no prints, no witnesses,
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and no surveillance footage
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to tie him to any crime.
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And he had a real knack
for choosing stolen cars,
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the right stolen cars
for the right job
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as getaway vehicles.
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[Narrator] The FBI
connects Casper's crews
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to 90 violent robberies
in the L.A. area
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with a total take
of $1 million,
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over $2 million today,
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and because of the baby bandits,
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bank jobs are turning into
vicious indoor muggings.
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The FBI creates a task force
of 50 agents
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to end the reign of terror
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and find Casper,
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but he continues
to prove elusive.
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[Katz] Casper was using
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all sorts of evasive techniques.
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He was switching addresses,
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he was placing his assets
in other people's names.
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He was apparently
an expert behind the wheel
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for shaking the police,
if anyone was chasing him.
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[crashing]
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[Narrator] But then,
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the FBI get a tip
from an informant.
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May 28, 1993...
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[wailing sirens]
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...the FBI tracks Casper
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to a house in Rollin' 60s turf.
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His identity
is officially revealed
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as Robert Sheldon Brown,
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a member of the gang
since he was 14 years old.
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This guy's only 23.
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The guy was a one-man
crime spree.
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[Narrator]
Facing multiple indictments
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that could send him to prison
for 285 years,
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Brown decides to plead guilty,
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and gets 30 years.
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He remains
the most prolific bank robber
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in U.S. history
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with over 175 heists
to his name.
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[Katz]
After Casper is sentenced,
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bank robberies in L.A. plummet.
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They were down 50%
two years later.
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[Narrator] Today,
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The Rollin' 60s
remain the largest
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and most notorious Crip set
in Los Angeles
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with over 6,000 members.
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[Gerould] The Rollin' 60s
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really captured the imagination
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because they were extreme.
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"We're in it for money,
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but we're also in it for rep,
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and we're also in it
to show that we are bad,
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that we are in control."
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[Esteban] The Rollin' 60 Crips
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have destroyed Los Angeles,
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and they continue to grow.
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You know, other groups
have gone away,
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but The Rollin' 60s
continue to flourish.
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