By Zach Fortier
I'm Raymond Washington presents the reader with an remarkable investigate the lifetime of the founding father of the Crips. overlook every little thing you've been advised approximately who began the Crips and why. so much of it truly is improper, very unsuitable. Welcome to the one licensed biography of the undisputed founding father of the Crips. full of interviews of acquaintances, kin and pals from those who knew and grew up with, Raymond Lee Washington. do not glance the following for awful tales of gang violence and crimes dedicated through gang individuals, that has been performed ahead of. while you're searching for a authentic and intuitive inspect what made Raymond Washington distinct within the suggest streets of l. a., this publication is for you. This e-book is stuffed with tales and eyewitness money owed of these that knew who the genuine founding father of the Crips gang used to be, what he represented to the folk that knew him, and optimistically explains why his identify remains to be spoken at the streets of la with hatred, worry, and awe and reverence. getting into the area of Raymond Washington with an open brain was once tough for me yet finally the tale of who Raymond Washington was once as a pacesetter, warrior, tactician, and mentor grew to become transparent. with a bit of luck it is going to develop into transparent to the reader why the crowd used to be such a success and clarify how an it sounds as if unremarkable 15 yr previous child within the fall of 1969 might sit together with his ally and shape what may develop into one of many unmarried so much profitable and but feared and hated gangs on this planet, The Crips.
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See Pic 3-2) Raymond eventually became more and more detached from the school system. He would be thrown out of nearly every school in the Los Angeles unified school district and then shipped out to the county schools. He was an accomplished fighter, and upon entering a new school, he would challenge the tougher and larger kids to fights to establish himself as someone not to be messed with. This habit would solidify his reputation early among the kids in the inner-city schools. The last school he attended was Fremont High School.
Raymond was wearing a cast at the time because he had broken his arm on a motorcycle or a mini bike. Their brother, Reggie, had a cast as well; he had cut the tendons on his hand climbing a fence. Derard remembered going to the bathroom where his older brother, Reggie, was taking a bath and complaining about Raymond teasing him. ” Raymond took one look at Reggie and punched him with the arm that was in the cast, knocking him back into the tub. Derard recalled, “Another time Raymond was messing with me and I went and got my BB gun and shot him right in the butt as he was going over the fence.
He would be thrown out of nearly every school in the Los Angeles unified school district and then shipped out to the county schools. He was an accomplished fighter, and upon entering a new school, he would challenge the tougher and larger kids to fights to establish himself as someone not to be messed with. This habit would solidify his reputation early among the kids in the inner-city schools. The last school he attended was Fremont High School. Years later, when the reputation of Raymond Washington as the founder and leader of the Crips was solidly established, kids who had witnessed Raymond’s schoolyard battles would remember him and the ferocity of those battles.
