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American Gangster - Stanley 'Tookie' Williams [BET] 2006 (41.28min)


Name: Stanley Tookie Williams
Reign: 1970’s
Business: Street Crime
Region: L.A.
Claim to Fame: Most notorious member of the Crips, later nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Downfall: The Crips' strength led to the formation of rival gangs and violent turf wars.
Sentence: Death
Status: Dead
Lesson: Sometimes it is too late to turn


By the time Stanley “Tookie” Wiliams was executed in 2005 in San Quentin prison, he was a man that his old pal Raymond Washington – founder of the Crips – barely would have recognized. The most famous member of L.A.’s largest and most notorious street gang had become an author of children’s books that counseled against gangs and violence, a writer and philosopher who’d been nominated six times for a Nobel Peace Prize. But like Washington, who was mysteriously murdered on the streets of L.A. back in 1979, Williams would meet a violent end. His final hopes for clemency were rejected by an equally larger-than-life character, Arnold Schwartzenegger, the actor turned California governor who, took on a real- life role as “the terminator.”




San Quentin's Death
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San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, California where Stanley Williams has been for the last 24 years

American Gangster - The Chamber Brothers [BET] 2006 (40.59min)

Name: The Chambers Brothers
Reign: 1980’s
Business: Crack
Region: Detroit
Claim to Fame: From modest beginnings, they became successful business men.
Downfall: Their associates testified against them in plea bargains.
Sentence: Billy Joe, 27 years and $500,000 fine; Larry, life in prison and $250,000 fine
Status: Billy Joe could be released in 2015
Lesson Learned: Entrepreneurship is good, but not in illegal businesses.


It was a classic American success story: brothers escape poverty in the rural South to seek their fortunes in the big city, and through hard work and family loyalty achieved fame and fortune. At one point, they became the most successful private business in Detroit. The only problem was that their product merchandise was crack cocaine.

By the time the Chambers brothers’ empire fell apart in 1988, their exploits made them national figures who were condemned by the public for importing and exporting pain and misery. At the Democratic Convention that year, presidential hopeful Bill Clinton dropped their names as examples of what can happen when America allows poverty and injustice to fester in its midst.

The 14 children of Hazel and Curtis Chambers grew up in a sharecropping family in one of America’s poorest counties, a swath of rural Arkansas where age-old practices of racial discrimination remained virtually untouched by the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. With little chance to make it in their hometown, the brothers began to scatter, many settling in Detroit. Some got solid jobs in the postal service and the auto industry, while others, like Billy Joe Chambers, made his mark hustling marijuana.

But by the early ’80s, the plants were closing down, creating a job crisis and making Detroit fertile ground for the emerging crack trade. that spurred a market for harder drugs - notably crack cocaine. Billy Joe and his older brother, Larry, became the kingpins of this new market, running rival organizations that complemented one another. In a perverse twist on the old good-cop, bad-cop routine, the fun-loving Billy Joe instilled loyalty by generously rewarding employees, while older brother Larry laid down strict rules, including fines for infractions.

At their height, the brothers were pulling in more than $50 million a year in drug sales. But as their empire began to crumble under constant pressure and surveillance by police, friends and associates made their own deals to stave off prison terms, while providing enough damning testimony in court to put Billy Joe and Larry in prison for decades.

American Gangster - ''Nicky Barnes'' Mister Untouchable (39.58min)


Name: Leroy “Nicky” Barnes
Reign: 1970’s
Business: Heroin
Region: Harlem
Claim to Fame: Graced the cover of “ New York Times Magazine” as Mr. Untouchable
Downfall: Convicted of racketeering
Sentence: Life in prison
Status: Released and living under the witness protection program
Lesson Learned: If you’re on trial, stay off of magazine covers.

Leroy “Nicky” Barnes, the head of a Harlem-based heroin cartel, helped define the poles of New York in the ’70s – flaunting a lifestyle of lavish pleasures while peddling a product that preyed on human weakness and desperation. With the guidance of Mafiaosos like Joey Gallo, Barnes was able to create a massive heroin distribution ring that at one point reputedly controlled 5 percent of the nation’s market. He and his cohorts on the seven-member ‘council’ became legends on the streets.


For a while Barnes’ glamorous lifestyle and his ability to elude the law made him a folk hero, which reached its zenith when he posed for a New York Times Magazine cover as “Mr. Untouchable,” in 1977. But Barnes’ hubris proved his undoing when the story attracted the attention of President Jimmy Carter, who instructed the Justice Department to make Barnes a top law enforcement priority, resulting in Barnes’ conviction on racketeering charges.

Once in prison, his reign quickly crumbled as fellow council members took to looting his money and squiring his women. Feeling betrayed, Barnes turned informant and helped destroy his own organization, working in concert with an up-and-coming district attorney named Rudolph Guliani. Barnes’ legacy is one of treachery and destruction. But Barnes himself has proved remarkably resilient. As reward for turning state’s evidence, he was eventually released from his life term in prison, and is currently living somewhere in the United States, under the witness protection program.

American Gangster - ''Nicky Barnes'' Mister Untouchable (39.58min)


Name: Leroy “Nicky” Barnes
Reign: 1970’s
Business: Heroin
Region: Harlem
Claim to Fame: Graced the cover of “ New York Times Magazine” as Mr. Untouchable
Downfall: Convicted of racketeering
Sentence: Life in prison
Status: Released and living under the witness protection program
Lesson Learned: If you’re on trial, stay off of magazine covers.

Leroy “Nicky” Barnes, the head of a Harlem-based heroin cartel, helped define the poles of New York in the ’70s – flaunting a lifestyle of lavish pleasures while peddling a product that preyed on human weakness and desperation. With the guidance of Mafiaosos like Joey Gallo, Barnes was able to create a massive heroin distribution ring that at one point reputedly controlled 5 percent of the nation’s market. He and his cohorts on the seven-member ‘council’ became legends on the streets.


For a while Barnes’ glamorous lifestyle and his ability to elude the law made him a folk hero, which reached its zenith when he posed for a New York Times Magazine cover as “Mr. Untouchable,” in 1977. But Barnes’ hubris proved his undoing when the story attracted the attention of President Jimmy Carter, who instructed the Justice Department to make Barnes a top law enforcement priority, resulting in Barnes’ conviction on racketeering charges.

Once in prison, his reign quickly crumbled as fellow council members took to looting his money and squiring his women. Feeling betrayed, Barnes turned informant and helped destroy his own organization, working in concert with an up-and-coming district attorney named Rudolph Guliani. Barnes’ legacy is one of treachery and destruction. But Barnes himself has proved remarkably resilient. As reward for turning state’s evidence, he was eventually released from his life term in prison, and is currently living somewhere in the United States, under the witness protection program.

American Gangster - The Smith Brothers (39.42min)


Name: Troy and Dino Smith
Business: Thefts and Robberies
Reign: 2000's
Region: San Francisco
Claim to Fame: The two stole $6 million in merchandise from a jewelry store.
Downfall: The brothers were extremely flamboyant, drawing attention to their dishonest activities
Sentence: Dino, 23 years; Troy, recently convicted
Status: Imprisoned
Lesson Learned: “Set It Off” and “Dead

For two decades, Troy and Dino Smith lived the equivalent of a high-wire crime act, from sophisticated burglaries to kidnapping to home-invasion robberies, while living a jet-set lifestyle and proving remarkably elusive at both capture and conviction. But they were finally brought to justice following a spectacular $6-million heist of a San Francisco jewelry store in Union Square, by far the biggest score in that city’s history.

The Smith’s moneymaking schemes were nothing if not elaborate. Preparing to kidnap, rob and possibly kill a popular nightclub owner, they arrived at his home dressed in Ninja outfits and bulletproof vests – where a tipped-off SWAT team waited to arrest them. That conviction, coupled with one for the previous home invasion of a cocaine dealer, netted the Smiths an extended prison term. When the sentence was cut short on technicalities, the Smiths threw themselves a high-profile party in a flashy bayside nightspot.

But the brothers’ specialty appeared to be jewelry, and the Lang Estate Jewelers robbery in Union Square may have been inspired as an act of revenge against owner Mark Zimmelman who’d previously provided testimony against them after unwittingly fencing some of their stolen gems.

Or maybe not. The Smith brothers claimed that the owner was in on the heist all along. In either case, they allegedly pulled off the caper by burrowing in at night from an adjacent building, surprising employees the next morning and forcing them to open the safes at gun-point. George Turner, a third crew member, was promptly arrested, but the Smith brothers managed to avoid arrest for more than a year – Dino rented an apartment in New York posed as a “ghostwriter.” Dino was arrested in Queens in 2004 and found guilty of the Lang robbery. Troy remained on the lam until April 2006 but turned himself in. In his trial that ended on Oct. 19, 2006 in San Francisco, Troy Smith was found guilty, thus bringing the long criminal history of the Smith brothers to an end … at least for now.

American Gangster - “Crack King” (Freeway Ricky Ross) (40.15min)


Name: “Freeway” Ricky Ross
Reign: 1980’s
Business: Crack
Region: South Central L.A.
Claim to Fame: Blamed the CIA for pouring drugs into Black communities
Downfall: He was set up by his own dealer, who became a government agent.
Sentence: Life, later reduced to 18 yrs.
Status: Imprisoned
Lesson Learned: Sometimes taking the business international is a no-no.


Introduction:

Rayful Edmond, III may have introduced crack cocaine to the East Coast (Washington, D.C.) but ‘Freeway’ Ricky Ross has the distinction of introducing crack to the West Coast (Los Angeles). Ross was also the first person to cook up powdered cocaine into ‘rocks,’ he invented this process, calling it, ‘ready rock.’ Ross grossed $3 million dollars per day in drug profits despite being illiterate, he couldn’t read or write.



“CRACK KING” (FREEWAY RICKY ROSS):

Ricky Donnell Ross (pictured above) grew up poor in Troup, Texas. He and his family moved to South Central, Los Angeles.

Ross was a talented tennis player at Dorsey High in the 1970’s. His dream of a college scholarship evaporated when his coach discovered he could neither read nor write.

Ross dropped out of school and attended a trade center where he learned to bind books. To pay his bills, Ross picked up a side racket, stolen car parts. He was arrested in the late 70’s for stealing a car and had to quit the trade center while the charges were pending.

During the Christmas holidays, a friend told Ross about a jet-set drug called cocaine, the friend also told Ross that the drug was going to be the new thing and everybody was doing it. At the time, in South Central, cocaine was virtually non-existent because it was the drug of the rich and famous. Intrigued, Ross set off to find out more about this drug.

Ross got connected through a former teacher who hooked him up with a South American contact who sold Ross inexpensive amounts of cocaine.

Ross would eventually head the first cocaine ring in South Central, grossing upwards to $3 million dollars per day.

Despite being the biggest drug deal to come up from the streets of South Central, Ross had a reputation for helping people out and giving money back to the community. He also drove flashy cars and wore expensive clothes and he never got high, he didn’t drink or beat women.

He invested the money in millions of dollars worth of real estate, including houses, motels, theaters and several other businesses. His nickname ‘Freeway,’ came for the fact that he owned properties near the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles.

Ross would set up five cookhouses, where he turned the powder into crack. The houses had huge steel vats of cocaine bubbling atop restaurant-size gas ranges.

Ross was being supplied with 100 kilos of cocaine a week, which was rocked up and distributed to major gangs in his area. At wholesale prices, that’s $65 million to $130 million worth of cocaine per year, depending on the going price of a kilo.

Ross expanded his empire to include: St. Louis, New Orleans, Texas, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Indiana and Seattle.

In city after city, local dealers either bought from Ross or got left behind. It didn’t make a difference to Rick what anyone else was selling if for. It would just go in and undercut himself $10,000 a key.

Before long, the supplier was giving Ross hundreds of kilos of cocaine on consignment-sell now, pay later-strategy that aided in the expansion of Ross’ crack empire.

In 1987, under pressure from a Task Force, Ross decided to retire from the drug trade and move to Cincinnati but he shelved these plans when he was approached and agreed to help a friend unload 13 kilos of cocaine, the friend offered the kilos to Ross for $10,000 per kilo.

Ross started during business in New York and Miami. In 1986, Ross was arrested on federal charges in Los Angeles for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in St. Louis. The case was later dismissed for lack of evidence.

In 1988, Ross allegedly attended a meeting in Kentucky, about the transportation of cocaine from Miami on an unknown date.

In 1989, the DEA tried to seize assets owned by Ross that were believed to be the proceeds of drug sales.

Ricky Ross also became the suspect in a bank robbery in Indianapolis, Indiana. A bank teller identified Ross from a photographic spread as the bank robber. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Indiana decline to prosecute the case.

Ross was suspected of another robbery for the theft of $337,673 in jewelry from the ‘Shane Company’ in Indianapolis.

Early investigative reports found that beginning in 1987, Ross had recruited young blacks from Los Angeles to travel to Cincinnati to sell cocaine and crack on the streets. Most of these people were reported gang members. The recruits were given apartments, beepers, cocaine and instructions on how to conduct street sales by using phone booths, pagers and mopeds. The drugs were stored in the trunks of parked cars placed around the neighborhoods. In Cincinnati, Ross was known as the “Six Million Dollar Man” because people perceived that he was making a fortune.

In June 1989, ten individuals, including Ross were indicted on drug charges in Cincinnati. After Ross was arrested on state charges in Los Angeles for assault on a police officer, he was transported back to Cincinnati and held without bail, pending trial on indictment.

Ross pled guilty to the charges in Cincinnati and was sentenced to 121 months in prison and three years supervised release-a sentence within the guideline range.

After his release, he was arrested again in 1993 on a warrant issued from Smith County, Texas, arising out of the interception of a call in 1988, which Ross agreed to supply a cousin in Tyler, Texas with two kilos of cocaine. Ross pled no contest to the Texas state charges of conspiracy to possess cocaine and was sentenced to ten years to run concurrently with his federal sentence in Ohio. He was paroled in 1994 by the state of Texas.

After his release, Ross said he hoped to head back to his old neighborhood as soon as possible and devote his life to warning youngsters about the mistakes that kept him locked up for most of the last five years. Ross was reportedly broke, having lost his drug profits to attorney fees, shaky business deals and double-crossing rivals. Ross also stated that he learned to read and write in jail.

Ross didn’t keep that promise to go clean, in 1996, Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to purchase more than 100 kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent. The sentence was brought to a federal court of appeals where his sentence was reduced to 20 years. Ross is eligible for parole in two 2008.

Currently a movie is in pre-production based on his life, titled “Freeway” Ricky Ross. The movie is slated for a 2008 release.

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Surrounded by death and the brutal lifestyle that feeds it, a Los Angeles gangbanger explores the history of Southern California street gangs from the 1950s through the 1990s in an attempt to fully understand his existence. Eloquently and passionately directed, Bastards of the Party humanizes the staggering casualties of the LA gang wars.

http://www.documentaryfilms.net/index.php/bastards-of-the-party-hbo-documentary-on-bloods-crips-history/