Los Angeles gang news in 1988 | Kid from Be Bop Watts Bloods

[@streetgangs]

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[@BlaccIndianOG]

Clovis passed away a few years ago from what I heard, not two weeks after the airing of this. he has a son whos active on KZbin, I’d have to find his page for you guys. edit: my mistake, it was his son page. Clovis was 17 during this interview and passed away a few years ago from complications of diabetes.

[@orlandocuadra2125]

Thanks for the info...

[@PreachaTim]

So unfortunate to hear of his passing, but at least he died and his life wasn’t taken by this disease called street life.

[@brucegee4799]

80s was a wild time in LA .

[@ericwright2594]

💯

[@Whitehorse_crimefighter]

California is all prison mentality now. It won't change

[@trejones3075]

Here we are damn near 40 years later. Shit sad fr. Coming from a gang member my damn self.

[@krookslokee5729]

GAAAAANGGBANGINNNNNNN GAAAAANGBANGINNNNN

[@9_Ether_N-R-G]

Fr... ✊️

[@MarioParks25]

​@krookslokee5729 Wasting your time, drinking that wine, smoking that smoke, Doing that c**e, Dealing that d**e, Giving up hope, Gang bangin, gang bangin, gang bangin. 😂😂😂

[@MarioParks25]

​@@krookslokee5729Wasting your time, drinking that wine, smoking that smoke, giving up hope, Gang bangin, gang bangin, gang bangin. 😂😂

[@knocc1]

​@@MarioParks25😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@beachboi_lb1612]

Dam!! Seeing them picture of 3 kids smiling together then seeing them buried together was crazy smh SC was vicious in the 80’s-90’s

[@TheEastside661]

I was born in 1992 but prior to this 1988 news report in 1987 my uncle was murdered on Vermont and 74th or 76th Street. I see the elderly woman in this news report and see her as no different than my grandmother who went through the same thing as her with the loss of my uncle. It’s sad how common of a story this was in South Los Angeles during the 1980s and how so many of our families in South L.A. did not make it out of the 1980s unscathed from gun violence and/or drug addiction. Both of which affected family members of mines who grew up in South L.A. during this infamous era.

[@Doja1787]

Thanks street tv !

[@tishawnpenn6873]

This the era i grew up in Compton was the wild wild west im glad i survived

[@ericwright2594]

in jesus name

[@westside8514]

This is South Central L.A / Watts

[@tishawnpenn6873]

@@westside8514 bro u always hating on Compton bruh in the comments section. I know it's South Central/ Watts the where the 92 Be Bop Bloods at I'm just referring to era. If u was born in this era Inglewood, Watts, LongBeach, South Central, and Compton this how the streets was . You're a weirdo

[@westside8514]

@ You call the Truth hating ? If this video was based on Compton I’d tip my hat to that !!!!

[@westside8514]

@@tishawnpenn6873 The only thing your proving is that a hit dog will always holla smh The weirdo is you for always speaking on Compton in videos based on South Central We know how Compton give it up 💯

[@KevinJ-o9c]

Keep posting footage like this man please bro. This that shit right here. I love seeing this type of footage! Born in 87', I really miss my childhood from when I could remember (~92). Them Jerry Curls remind me of my uncles, who were in that lifestyle back then and were in there mid 20s during this time!

[@PeteMcCorvey]

That lady was in denial about her second grandson. He banger written all over him.

[@SIGNALFREQ]

Poor people who wanted to belong to a cause...Dam shame I had to grow up fearing my own people...Slavery, self-hatred, and generational poverty.✌🏾

[@7601jrod]

1:42 that’s crazy she lost 2 grandsons and her own son in a span of 5 months

[@user-Tripleggggggg]

This the era when black women chose the government over their men and all hell broke lose… black mothers didn’t lose kids rapidly to gang violence prior to the late 70s 80s

[@r.i.p.kobeandnipsey8647]

It’s a nightmare smh 🙏🏾

[@jambro1583]

Life of am independent lady​@@r.i.p.kobeandnipsey8647

[@Geetrill-yk3qm]

80s teenagers were different...articulate and serious...no tight pants and tattoos

[@majorphenom1]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏿 Prayers going out for those trying to recover from the passing of their loved ones 🕊️ Prayers going out for those incarcerated and those on that path 🕊️

[@BekaShakur7]

That’s Clovis Benjamin…Tupac talked about him.

[@YedderBedder-kx5lj]

Really what he say? Just wondering love tupac

[@WestLAJoe]

That’s not him. The dude in the video is Clois McClain not Clovis

[@MrAlexander-y7g]

Any status on that young man??? I hope he made it through all that chaos and is living better 🙏

[@J_h_420]

I think he got killed not long after this 😐

[@SlappyBoy-my7wr]

​@@J_h_420nope apparently he died a few years ago

[@thebizzyoo]

@@J_h_420he died of natural causes and had kids

[@darnellsimpson4413]

I remember this news report.

[@jermaineburgess3767]

First thing wrong with that video you have women as head of household

[@r.i.p.kobeandnipsey8647]

FACTS smh 💯

[@user-xh5rs7jn2q]

@jermaineburgess3767 It's one of the main issues... Please, use the brain that God gave you and ask yourself how they ended up being the head of household, the FULL UNEDITED STORY. It takes two to create a single woman as head of household. I also notice that you eagerly and selectively skipped past the remarks about the love of drugs and money and the level of violence they're capable of. Imagine this coming from the folks who intentionally helped to manufacture this hell and you solely focus on the woman. Real ones offer solutions!

[@craigtitusfitness2249]

Alex won’t say this because he’s a Democrat operative who would rather blame Trump or Republicans.

[@nickjones1314]

Men been playing the back seat sense slavery for the most part

[@craigtitusfitness2249]

@ not true at all. Most black families were in tact through slavery and Jim Crow. In 1960 the out of wedlock birth rate was 20%, today it’s 75%.

[@Balla68]

He looks like a young Messy Marv lol

[@King_Kudjo]

The question is, "Who created that atmosphere, and why?". Someone, or some think tank planned for the community to look like that. Who? Because it literally happened overnight. So who created the characters, the dresscode, the mindset, the rules and regulations for gangbangin? And dont tell me Raymomd and Tookie. Now, after you've found the anwers to those questions, tell me, are you a slave and or a sellout?

[@ratswagger]

We can point fingers, but at the end of the day our communities let it happen. We let them bamboozle us into embracing the gangster and thug culture.

[@streetgangs]

when they dropped Drugs into the black community during the late 1950 and early 1960s, all these problems started. These issues were nearly non-existent from the 1940s and prior.

[@King_Kudjo]

@ratswagger most definitely. BUT, my point is, the bamboozling didnt stop and wont stop. So what else are we falling for? Too many people confuse symptoms wit causes.

[@ratswagger]

@King_Kudjo it will stop because now we're not ignorant of it. We can continue to encourage the building of black families, Black progress and separation of the thug culture. We're the only people where are women want to have kids with thugs. We don't encourage marriage, and our kids are out here looking up to gangbangers and ratchat rappers

[@CeeJay-wm6sn]

You know Clovis outta da 80s with that Raiders cap😊.

[@streetgangs]

i wish i saved my Raiders hat just like that one. During that time the Raiders hat might have been more popular than the Dodgers hat

[@knowendsports84]

Disgusting and senseless behavior!!!

[@Undefeated77798]

You look like an African tell us about your country and its conditions

[@knowendsports84]

@@Undefeated77798 what condition was your mom in after she left my house last night 😉?

[@englishcool247]

I grew up in South Central on 30th and Kenwood ... Rap music really hyped up the hoods....we moved to San Fernando Valley ...same shit just more Hispanics... Crack and rap and everyone wack.

[@stefalonso]

@@englishcool247 i was on Kenwood and Jefferson going to Foshay in rhe early 80s. I seen it, too.immigrant family from Belize, parents protected us as much as rhey could. 2 padent house and no ons on drugs or in gangs.

[@englishcool247]

@stefalonso yup, I went to Vermont elementary...my buddies were black ..Filipino..Mexican...I'm from El Salvador...seen plenty of gang fights as a kid ....crazy how we lived in that hood - my love for rap music grew there

[@officerjacciah698]

@1:08 Charleston White cuh

[@Romy16.]

Whenever these older guys try to say how bad or reckless teenagers and young men are today just remember that the mxrder rate was multiple times higher than what is now and in this area over half of those were innocent people caught in the crossfire. Those dudes were another level of wicked back then.

[@levelupandmanuptradesman1349]

It’s crazy, the Black community will shame you for leaving the hood and moving to the suburbs or the country. To protect my family I wouldn’t give a care of what people think.

All they had to do was move. I don't know why that never crosses their minds. Our people ran across whole states barefooted, starving, chased by bloodhounds and bounty hunters to escape oppression. But these people never think to leave to save their children's lives. They just stay and pray on the plantation. It pisses me off.

[@kingof85]

No offense against anyone at the same time I've thought about this sooooooo many times its literally that simple it honestly makes me think they had to like it in some weird way cause it nobody just finna stay and just don't care and cry for decades and like you said our ancestors escaped thru many trials barefoot across state the whole 9 and somehow this particular generation just I guess gave up I always try to make sense of this and still haven't to this day my Mom would've got the heck outta dodge

@@kingof85 I mean I look at it this way, these the descendants of slavery that don't even think about leaving. These aren't the people that ran to freedom. These aren't the people that Marched and got Dogs sicked on them. These are the people that benefitted from it. It make me sick that people in the Jordan Downs been there for 5 Generations you feel me? They need to make some drastic changes in Social Welfare programs to encourage people to move up and move on instead of getting comfortable and planting their feet firmly into Poverty. I Seen single mothers out here acting like homeowners on Section 8 tearing up people's property and getting a brand new house to tear up every other year. It's crazy.

[@melokan]

Damn this was a pretty low brow response if I ever seen one.

[@UptopVillain-n2w]

Ppl with no money can't just up n move how do u not know this

[@densincomprehend8879]

It's gang's everywhere lol ​@@kingof85

[@WestLAJoe]

Yoooooo this is my big cousin. His name was Clois not Clovis. He died a few years ago.

[@jambro1583]

Single black women ❤❤ that's what you wasted 👍

[@WeBoogie28]

You got parts missing, real historians from these communities you know we gonna set it right tho’ but good work sir

[@Sunset48]

This kids son and grandson and great grandson are following in his footsteps… Black Excellence

[@UptopVillain-n2w]

How do you know

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

Before yall start blaming the people in that environment. Ask yourself how the guns and drugs make it to the "hood" in the first place!

[@jermaineburgess3767]

Come on stop that bullshit no body made them so anything 🤡 no accountability 🤷🏾

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

@jermaineburgess3767 don't be an idiot. Do the research!

[@JmLgyo]

CIA.

[@MikeBBlack4Life]

@JmLgyo facts!

[@mr.reliable8123]

That don't make the killing of your own people right. An excuse will never be more powerful than a fact and a choice.

[@kdolo100]

Hey Alex, is Clovis still alive?

[@JmLgyo]

He’s not.

[@SalsHQ]

​@@JmLgyor.i.p 😑

[@alphonsomorris793]

​@@JmLgyosource?

[@thebizzyoo]

@@alphonsomorris793he passed away recently from diabetes a few years ago he didn’t pass from any violence

[@SwayneLogo]

I was only 2 months old

[@1904_Rob]

Did he make it out?

[@WestLAJoe]

Yes.

[@knowendsports84]

Black we have to do better. Don’t glorify this bs!!! Please

[@sadbuttruereality234]

It’s never going to happen. Too far gone, the good black people will live, but the ones used and created by the government will be gone, that was their purpose to be used and dumped.

[@DonDayJR]

I think Clovis died

[@MarkieB89]

What makes you think that?

[@DonDayJR]

@ I heard he died like 2 weeks after this aired

[@DJDJ-wt7xk]

I was just about to try to look him up

[@jernardwilson2758]

My big homies.

[@katom4234]

He didn't die Back then, he made it through and died before a couple of years of Diabetes

[@malcolmxbox]

This era set the stage for the exodus of black Americans out of south Central LA. I have many family members who left during this time.

[@RENEGADE-gk9hv]

Ruthless, my style as a juvenile. Ran with a gang! Slangged in the means while... Banking... I special in ganking, white, mess'agains, brothers and others...

[@ReyYoung-fh5mn]

TRYING TO HOLD DOWN A 3 BLOCK RADIUS. LIFE IS NOT WORTH SACRIFICING. MY FAMILY LEFT WATTS AND THE EASTSIDE IN THE 1960S. IF YOU STILL THERE, GET THE HELL OUT. ITS NOT WORTH FIGURING IT OUT!!

[@MrHustler30]

This is what living In a Republican ran economy was like back then, no help for those in need, high cost of living, no jobs for those who wanted to do better, This was part of the Make America Great Again culture for the wealthy, not the poor, I lived in this Era. Raised in the 80's grew up in the 90's.. Lack of education, no jobs, high inflation, produce mental health crisis, people tured to drugs, crack especially. voliance increased dramatically over the country, rasicism was high, police killings increased, stop & frisk, no knock warrants took off, police killing increased!! education was low, among the Spanish & African community, high school drop outs were high... kids weren't eating, so to make money the product needed to be sold, they wanted to eat..banging took off to survive, even though they really never survived, a hungry, lost uneducated mind is the worst, thing ever.. so remember The Republicans luv the uneducated people, so for all you MAGA people, this is what's going to happen, one thing for certain 2 things for sure, history luvs to repeat itself, because people luv to repeat history, go backwards instead of moving forward, corporations grew, they got wealthy, the people suffered. Open y'all eyes, wake up.. and to you'll recognize the game begin played.. people tend to forget but the info to remember is out there... im a Blood, & im a vote blue for a better nation for the people..

[@kenjidodson8911]

Trump 2024. You voting for men's in women's bathrooms as a gang member. Sex changes for inmates. Abortions at 9 months. Higher taxes. Hate for the most high. You are an idiot and are voting against the good of your own.

[@RG-zw5wc]

😂😂

[@FresnoBoy6star]

Trump 2024

[@kenjidodson8911]

You don't read or know much. Trump2024

[@kenjidodson8911]

Spoken like an uneducated victim.

[@dontgetittwizted]

The 80s in la really was the wild wild west.

[@eg7949]

Did he say these people?

[@MonkPrudholme]

These people

man she wasn't wearing gloves

[@omardavis1622]

Read up on history. War always been. Sad to say. Just the fight was different. Smh 😢

[@eyeofthestorm_74]

In your world

[@omardavis1622]

@eyeofthestorm_74 the world period ‼️ 😒 You think wars started with just Bloods and Crips ???? I'm sure you heard about the Indian wars. And guess who were the indians. I'm leave it at that.

[@eyeofthestorm_74]

@omardavis1622 I respect your opinion and experiences , I was fortunate not to have lived those experiences like you have. Honor and respect.

[@omardavis1622]

@eyeofthestorm_74 no I haven't either my brother. Just simple poverty wars, just stating that these wars we see , been happening , just in different ways. Only difference, we fought each other over tribes trying protect the land , against the ones who sided with the foreigners , just get crossed smh.

[@salvatoreangius5338]

This is what GTA copied. Todays version copies GTA

[@Tekken_kam]

These grannies and mommas be lyin to the public and themselves with that wrong place wrong time/good boy BS. Just because you seen glimpses of a kind heart or thats what you want to believe about an individual, doesn’t trump the karmic debt of the lifestyle they lived. I’ve done lost homies to a certain lifestyle we lived and it’s hard to feel sad at times when we knew what we signed up for when we committed to it. Of course nobody wants go thru the heartache, but if a person past due to a high risk lifestyle, all you can do is accept it. Those who are victims have to take accountability before hand if an unfortunate outcome takes happens.

[@psydalone801]

Tom Brokaw?, what's the frequency Kenneth?

[@davidmaez7253]

That was Dan Rather

[@davidmaez7253]

Dan Rather

[@psydalone801]

@davidmaez7253 you are right it was dan rather

[@psydalone801]

@davidmaez7253 I know realize they all.looked the same to me.

[@painlessrisen9787]

Peter Jennings

[@ramirovilla5271]

BLOODS VS CRIPS. ,VS L.A.P.D.

[@JmLgyo]

Crack era.

[@ericwright2594]

my childhood

[@jhonezcronic]

Clovis was Nas’ West Coast Doppelgänger

[@WillieMcDuffle]

So ain’t nothing really changed

[@streetgangs]

there is less violent crime in LA. In 1987 / 1988 there were 800 - 900 murders. In LA last year there were less that 300. I would say huge difference.

[@gtergeez7935]

Ain’t shit changed

[@truehistory261]

Alot have changed wtf are you talking about

[@gtergeez7935]

@ ok idiot

[@streetgangs]

there is less violent crime in LA. In 1987 / 1988 there were 800 - 900 murders. In LA last year there were less that 300. I would say huge difference.

[@celowdamu52]

That boy look jus like G perico Guarantee they kin somehow

[@theghettoracle]

It's interesting you say that because everyone in L.A. has at least 8 or 9 doppelganger's, it brings new meaning to the phrase killing your own brother.

[@joemoses3028]

​@theghettoracle it goes back to us being cousins we all fam

[@miami-blac]

The lumpenproletariat, It will never end unless you pull yourself out of it.

[@CiscoSZR]

I guess this is Kamala's fault too huh 😂

[@ronaldmcdonald1977]

yep

[@miichealbolton559]

A good people

[@eyeofthestorm_74]

😂

[@user-xh5rs7jn2q]

History has told a different story about Europeans.

[@jaredhill90]

Free Lil E

[@all4amusement657]

You loosing your touch

[@Chevyboiz]

GayLA

[@Austintx78721]

B/p•👌🏾•🅱️•🤟🏾•👆🏾☝🏾

[@TempeSoldier123]

Those gangbangers are wild animals.

[@mazzb305]

Moreso products of their environment. If u grow up in a war zone surrounded by disfunction, it takes a special kind of person and a lot of good fortune to overcome that. Most won’t.

[@silentsir2446]

They sure are wild savage animals

[@1976abyz]

Reverend MC Eiht

[@Thetruthahk]

😂😂😂