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Gangs rule their territories through
ruthless enterprises, fear, and a strict code.

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Deviate from this code,
or challenge their power.

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Retribution soon follows.

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Especially for the
infamous set within the biggest

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and most ruthless
street gang in Los Angeles,

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the Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips.

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Here are three stories that
track how the Rollin' 60s go

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from terrorizing one
neighborhood to all of Los Angeles.

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First, their brutality
is established on their

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local turf with a
cold-blooded contract hit.

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It was a daybreak,
quadruple, home invasion homicide.

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Then, their violent
reputation spreads across the

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city with the death of
an innocent bystander,

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turning the game into the
LAPD's public enemy number one.

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It woke up not only the
community, but law enforcement.

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Finally, the Roland 60s attract the
attention of the FBI when an OG becomes the

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most prolific bank robber in history
by training kids to do his dirty work.

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The Crips convinced these youngsters to
go into the banks and do the robbing.

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These are the stories from the
Roland 60s neighborhood crypts.

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This is Gangland Chronicles. 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 has disbanded.

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Police brutality and racism run rampant.

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To survive, young men begin
forming neighborhood gangs.

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Many folks, they formed these
gangs because it meant a family.

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It meant people who would back you up.

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Two neighborhood gang
leaders, Raymond Washington

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and Stanley Tukey
Williams, decide to join forces.

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They call themselves the Crips.

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Raymond Washington, he
was about building and

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expanding this crip
movement throughout LA.

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Washington and Williams' mission
is to roll up all the surrounding

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gangs into the Crips and
dominate South Central and beyond.

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They would go to different
communities, and they would tell the communities,

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you're going to 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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By 1978, Washington and
Williams have absorbed

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45 neighborhood gangs
under the Crips banner.

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And the most dangerous set
within the Crips call themselves...

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The Rollin' 60s would stand
out above the rest, right,

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because they were more violent and more
about the gangster type of lifestyle.

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The Rollin' 60s
territory expands, and by 2004,

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there's an estimated
1,600 members on the street.

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They're involved in organized crime.

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They're involved in drug trafficking,
firearms trafficking, homicides, kidnappings,

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extortions. They do everything.

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When I was covering gangs at
that time for the LA Times,

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400 hardcore members had
been arrested over 3,500 times.

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And in the summer of 1984,

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the Roland 60's ruthless reputation
spreads throughout all of South Central.

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August 31st, 1984.

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Watts.

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Roland 60s Crips'
Tyquan Cox, Darren Williams,

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and Horace Burns are getting ready to do
a hit job for a local nightclub owner.

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There had been a shooting in there, and
a young woman on her birthday was shot.

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She had a lawsuit against the bar
for a couple of million dollars.

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And he then hired the Rolling Sixties
to kill her to make the lawsuit go away.

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$50,000 for a murder for hire 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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Eighteen-year-old Cox, known
on the street as Lil' Fee,

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has a rep as a ruthless enforcer.

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You end up getting killed
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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At daybreak, Cox and his crew pull up
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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What happens next is a
brutal mass murder that shocks

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South Central and puts
the gang on the map.

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August 31st, 1984. Watts.

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Roland Sixties Crips, Tyquan Cox,

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and Darren Williams enter a
house to carry out a contract hit.

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She is shot multiple times in the head.

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Then, Cox and Williams enter a
bedroom where a young woman sits up in bed.

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She is shot.

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Also in the room are two young boys and
they are shot while still in their sleep.

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Once on the scene, LAPD officers
are shocked by the quadruple murder.

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The four victims 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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Kermit Alexander is a retired NFL player.

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The Alexander family
lives down the street from

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the young woman the
club owner wanted killed.

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The rolling 60s that morning in that
van simply went to the wrong address.

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It was a daybreak, quadruple, home
invasion homicide with the wrong thing.

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A month goes by, and
it appears Cox and his

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crew might get away
with this heinous crime.

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Until the LAPD raid a stash
house in Roland's 60s territory.

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During the raid, they actually found
the gun that was used in that murder.

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LAPD questioned 17-year-old James
Kennedy about the murder weapon.

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Kennedy holds to the gangster's
code until the police turn the screws.

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The police say, OK, you're going
to be on the hook for quadruple

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murder and the death penalty
unless you decide you want to talk.

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He says, no, it wasn't mine.

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It was Tyquan Cox and Moncarving.

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Police arrest and charge Tyquan Cox
with four counts of first-degree murder.

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By 1985, Darren Williams and
Horace Burns are also in custody.

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Burns is convicted and
sentenced to life in prison.

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Cox and Williams are found
guilty and sent to death row.

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But for the rolling 60s,
this brutal and mistaken

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hit only serves to grow their street cred.

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There's the idea that being a
little bit wild, a little bit berserk,

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isn't always a bad thing
because it keeps people wary of you.

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It keeps people scared of you.

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The Roland 60s are known for
killings in South Central.

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But when they expand
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they become 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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Crack cocaine changed
everything about the gang world

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here in LA because it
was access to quick money.

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The Roland 60s are banking so much, they
earn a new nickname, the Rich Roland 60s.

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We're talking millions of dollars.

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They were dealing with the
Colombian cartels directly in 1980s.

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With profit margins so high,

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the Roland 60s are venturing into new
territories to look for more buyers.

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And so are many of their rivals.

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January 30th, 1988, Westwood Village.

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It's a busy Saturday night in the
fashionable neighborhood, home to UCLA.

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It was a place that everyone liked
to go and see movies or shop or eat.

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Roland's 60s Darrell Collins and his
homeboys are walking down the street

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when they spot a crew of their
rivals from the Mansfield Hustler Crips.

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Crips fight Crips.

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The different sets are
constantly fighting amongst themselves.

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The two sets trade
insults, and after a Mansfield

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hustler makes a move,
Collins pulls out a gun.

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January 30th, 1988, Westwood Village.

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The standoff between Roland's
60s gangbanger Darrell Collins and

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a rival crip is escalating in
this well-to-do neighborhood.

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Collins pulls out a gun and opens fire.

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He fires two shots, neither of
which hit the intended target.

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Terrified pedestrians run for cover.

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Darrell Collins ditches his
weapon and vanishes into the crowd.

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On the sidewalk lies
27-year-old graphic artist Karen Tashima.

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She got caught in the crossfire.

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She took a bullet in the head
and died on the scene there.

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This is way out of gang
territory and completely unexpected.

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It got a lot of media
attention and woke up

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not only the
community, but law enforcement.

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One week after the shooting, LAPD
arrests and charges Darrell Collins.

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At trial, he is found guilty 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 outside of gang territory

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triggers the LAPD to
launch a war on gangs.

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The police response was intense.

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City Council, two weeks later, approved
the hiring of 150 more police officers.

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And that was the era of what
the LAPD called Operation Hammer,

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Operation Hammer is a large-scale attempt
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
by the time it's disbanded in 1990.

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Operation Hammer was the
idea that we're going to

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have a kind of zero
tolerance 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
about civil liberties and how much do you want

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the police to be able to question
people 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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Operation Hammer forces the
Roland 60s to curb the violence,

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but it doesn't stop them from
looking for new ways to score.

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And the gang goes from LAPD
target to the FBI's most wanted.

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1992, Los Angeles.

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The city is considered 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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The Roland 60s are one of the
first to entice crack addicts

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to commit bank
robberies in return for drugs.

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The old-fashioned way of
robbing a bank is with a note.

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It's a very quiet encounter,

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and that person passing
the note typically wants

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to get out of the bank
as quickly as possible.

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Suddenly, in 1991, violent
takeover robberies become the standard.

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A takeover robbery, they come in blasting.

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And intimidate people and scare people.

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So a lot more violent,
a lot more dangerous.

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But then, the rolling 60s add a new twist.

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August 14, 1992.

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Downey, California.

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Without warning, the employees and
customers in a small bank branch are blindsided.

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Kids, some as young as 13, barge into a
Wells Fargo in a takeover-style robbery.

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Brandishing semi-automatic weapons, 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
where they felt, we're overwhelmed.

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But someone trips the silent alarm,

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and before the youths can get away
with over $55,000, the police arrive.

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So the police have these three
kids surrounded at the bank.

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The juvenile bank robbers have no
intention of giving up peacefully.

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They smash a window in
an attempt to get away.

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August 14th, 1992.

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Downey, California.

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After storming the bank and
terrorizing the people inside,

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three adolescent bank robbers
shatter a window to escape.

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But the police have them surrounded.

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These kids come flying out
through the broken glass, guns blazing.

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The cops chase two of them
down and take them into custody.

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The third bandit makes a run for it,
and a police officer goes after him.

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He gets cornered.

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And so he turns around and shoot at
the police, and police shoots back.

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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
OG who goes by the name of Casper.

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But when pressed to make an
official statement, they refuse.

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With nothing leading the feds to him,

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Casper remains a ghost
and continues masterminding

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hundreds of takeover
robberies with other kids.

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He never walked in the banks himself.

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Then he paid them either
in drugs or a little bit

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of money and kept the
proceeds for himself.

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Some wanted to be in the
gang, some wanted money,

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but all like
disadvantaged and vulnerable kids.

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Casper leaves no physical
evidence, no prints, no witnesses,

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and no surveillance
footage 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 as getaway vehicles.

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The FBI connects Casper's
cruise to 90 violent robberies

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in the LA area with a
total take of $1 million.

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Over two million today.

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And because of the baby bandits, bank
jobs are turning into vicious indoor muggings.

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The FBI creates a task
force of 50 agents to

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end the reign of terror and find Casper.

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But he continues to prove elusive.

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Casper was using all
sorts of evasive techniques.

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He was switching addresses. He was
placing his assets in other people's names.

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He was apparently an
expert behind the wheel for

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shaking the police if
anyone was chasing him.

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But then the FBI get a
tip from an informant.

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May 28, 1993.

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The FBI tracks Casper to a
house in rolling 60s turf.

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His identity is officially
revealed 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. This guy
was a one-man crime spree.

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Facing multiple indictments that
could send him to prison for 285 years,

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Brown decides to plead
guilty and gets 30 years.

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He remains the most prolific
bank robber in U.S. history,

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with over 175 heists to his name.

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After Casper was sentenced,
bank robberies in L.A. plummet.

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They were down 50% two years later.

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Today, the Rollin' 60s
remain the largest and

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most notorious crypt set in Los
Angeles, with over 6,000 members.

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The Rollin' 60s really captured the
imagination because they were extreme.

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We're in it for money, but
we're also in it for rep,

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and we're also in it to show that
we are bad, that we are in control.

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So Rolling 60 Crips have
destroyed Los Angeles.

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And they continue to grow.

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You know, other groups have gone away,
but the Rolling Sixties continue to flourish.