Melvin Farmer visits the home of the man who snitched on Stanley Tookie WIlliams (2014)

Melvin "Skull" Farmer and Juice talk about growing up in James Garrett's home on 84th Street during the Westside Crip and early Eight Tray Gangster Crip era. James Garrett eventually moved to 104th Street and St. Andrews with his wife Esther to a house that Stanley Tookie Williams spent a lot of time in. Tookie used to lift weights in the back of the house with other Westside Crips and it became a known hangout. In 1979, James Garrett turned over a shotgun that was purchased by Tookie to the police and told the police that Tookie had killed the three Chinese people at the hotel on 104th & Vermont and he became the star witness of the trial.
Originally shot in August 2014.
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[@blushbaby5278]

This was my neighborhood i grew up here in the 70s and 80s i still suffer from PTSD from living here. It was no joke

[@robertlittle2471]

LA has the most deceptive looking hoods, looks like high suburbs in Detroit

[@ShudrodWatts]

melvin missed his calling !!! his should have been a lawyer for the hood !!!

[@Sv_bleu]

U can see the youth in Melvin when he started laughing 😂😂😂

[@sultanshareef91]

Dumbass

[@Curtoonstv]

True that, I was thinking the same.

[@AlexAlonso101]

we shot this 5 years ago in 2014

[@jamarielcoltrane5701]

That happen to me by some cluckers

[@waddupdoe3402]

Also see the strap in his waste 10:30

[@nevergiveup7502]

Tookie was no Angel, but I don't think he committed the murders which he was arrested and eventually put to death.

[@eastside313yahdig.2]

Nevergiveup jamel said that

[@gaydydonley2363]

Do your research, he did.

[@isakareem3130]

He did he was high on pcp

[@t_challathagod172]

@nomo whites nah he purposely left it out to not incriminate anyone. He's not a dummy. Read the preface he clearly mentioned that

[@bobbyjohnson7069]

Tookie Williams DID murder those Asians at the motel, he also was in on the robbery that killed that convenience store clerk in the San Gabriel valley. People like Melvin Farmer are EX CONS- they NEVER take responsibility for fucking over and abusing people even after all these years ... These “men” are not to be praised - they made poor black Los Angeles even more HORRIBLE to live in during the 70s to 90s....

[@yamomma6479]

He was alot more patient with Alonso as opposed to Vlad that's for sure.

[@AlexAlonso101]

I actually know these OGs for years, have been to their homes, have ate meals with them, they been to my house, so you see more relaxation when I interview guys like Melvin. Thanks for watching, please SUBSCRIBE

[@doncasino2620]

Alonzo real 🚔

[@FastCashClass]

Don Casino 😂😂😂 “OG’S” Snitching

[@crazygamer-mr6nr]

@@FastCashClass This shit is old everything's done with it's not snitching if there's no pending case or evidence man

[@jamezgene6030]

He seemed irritated as f*** with Vlad

[@sirjuju4766]

You and KevMac be having straight fire bro.. Keep em coming!!!

[@mr.hester5671]

They cut holes in his socks and took his money... he still big mad😭😭😂😂😂😂😂

[@J.C.3423]

Og Melvin Farmer, West Side Legend. Street Tv 🔥🔥

[@streetgangs]

thanks for watching

[@leomabry5231]

All day certified OG.💪💪💪💪

[@TheBLACKMQQN]

In what particular way? Did he have hands?

[@crazygamer-mr6nr]

@@TheBLACKMQQN Idk this dude did his business or whatever

[@jeffreywalker4040]

Thank You OGz for making things right!

[@NinodaBlogger]

Tookie should've never started smoking pcp His respect started losing Young homies don't want to see they big homies smoked out

[@Malitubee]

He probably had no choice , all the shit he seen he was probably tryna find a way to ease his mind

[@jboti1]

That’s a nice house....looks like a great neighborhood

[@bibiinspades1953]

Fr compared to some of the hoods here in San Antonio Tx this looks nice

[@CaLixxN8tiVe]

OG in The Game M83vin

[@3268right]

u sitting on a whole lot of videos that's Gold

[@AlexAlonso101]

3268right man, I got so much archival footage of known guys, you would say, WOOOOOOOW! But I am saving a lot to do another film. I am a filmmaker, not a KZbinr, so I roll a little differently.

[@3268right]

@@AlexAlonso101 i hear that Raspect

[@lyricvideos888]

@@AlexAlonso101 Melvin is a snitch

[@rifleming4854]

👍😬😬🔜

[@saigoneze4465]

the streets and neighbourhood in general makes so hard to picture all the gangbanging that was going on in the 80-90s .Such nice looking areas

[@sabirabdul-lateef5352]

Regentrification!! They're moving the poor out of these areas. It probably didn't look like that back then.

[@saigoneze4465]

Sabir Abdul-Lateef totally agree

[@JAJGGG12]

Actually it did they touched it up a lil bit but South Central LA didn’t look like the slums but yo ass would get murdered quicker than you could blink

[@Anthony-to7cp]

​@@sabirabdul-lateef5352No it's not! Blacks owned those houses, you had a chance to get the house you're parents worked hard for! If you're in and out, how are you going to keep it.

[@kingrainwater2883]

Big Scull ! Melvin Farmer,I did a jolt with the O.G. Gave me good legal advice! One love big cuzzo

[@bigbaba1491]

Scull?

[@starrbwoy571]

Love OG Melvin Skull Farmer ....God bless him keep pushing that Unity ..OG Melvin

[@camerondouglas5951]

Alonzo get him on the Gangster Chronicles

[@rayman1269]

Melvin “u bedd not step on nobodys buscuits” farmer

[@tdawg4206]

Salute triple OG skull Mr Melvin farmer stand up guy

[@skrillaskee472]

He talking bout evil from mad swans? Heard bruh was crazy

[@skrillaskee472]

@Leon Jones nah not the same person...big evil gotta lil brother name sinister...he got music on KZbin but he dead.....a la detective said big evil from mad swans blood got more bodies than any other gang member he knows....sound like some serious shit

[@Sv_bleu]

Naw they bang in 70s early 80s evil from family swans is who you talking about that was the late 90s

[@skrillaskee472]

@pate heckerwoods November 25th 2007...says his real name is Timothy Wayne Johnson and his brother big evil name is clemon Johnson...says he's still on death row an he has beef with the Mexican mafia...they can make a movie about this guy....

[@jamalstate922]

Evil from Raymond Ave crip

[@binzayed8897]

Aha

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Raymond Washington was murdered in 1979 and Tookie was sent to Death Row in 1979…

[@highboltage6200]

those compton houses remind me of Central, Northeast and the Lower Valley area houses of El Paso, TX.. it's a safe city now but in the early 90s, El Paso had the highest # of drive-bys in the entire nation, in 1993 or 94.

[@wiredupt.v9072]

OG TRIPLE OG... MUCH RESPECT 100

[@scraplover7088]

Melvin farmer still crippin' for his age.

[@mmmtheisraelite9500]

Naw for real.

[@starrbwoy571]

Tookie is in God Hands

[@henrysedillo5834]

MR MELVIN FARMER......SALUTE......STREETT.V!

[@zeriousmeadows2017]

Since I've been paying attention to the tookie Williams story I think tookie was set up and frame

[@jaylamb2851]

Thanks Alex

[@AlexAlonso101]

Jay Lamb Thanks for wAtching, I hope you are subscribed

[@jaylamb2851]

Alex A. Alonso Yeah I'm subscribed 👍🏼 thanks

[@bigjon.6258]

Takashi 69..da new James Garret!!!!

[@badd8879]

yeah right james was a real crip six nine a fake blood nine tray gangstas fake bloods gtfho lol

[@bigbaba1491]

@@badd8879 James Garrett wasnt a crip, he was an older guy, a criminal and a crook who let gangmembers hang out at his house, but he wasnt in a gang himself.

[@eastside313yahdig.2]

That’s a big nice corner house

[@YungMollyTV]

So whatever happened to big James ?

[@anttemo41]

Probably hiding somewhere

[@almightymontana3865]

Facts

[@ambroselee8234]

Where is cuz from big James

[@Anthony-to7cp]

Nice houses! We stayed in those back in the 70's ! Not anymore!

[@kingrainwater2883]

MadTown rocc with the O.G Scull! Much respect to the Big homie!! Laced me on many levels,.. n'jema ndugu! Respect...

[@kidkully]

Why wait 5 years to release this interview?

[@blackmanea3112]

kidkully OH I SEE WHAT YEAR THIS VIDEO IS WELL ITS BEcAUSE HE LIE THEN AND HE RE~LYING AGAIN NOW

[@blackmanea3112]

kidkully AND YOU cAN SEE IN DIFFERENT VIDEOS LIKE FOR EXAMPLES... LOOK HOW HE LOOK IN THIS VIDEO WHIcH WAS VIDEO TAPED BAcK THEN AND THEN GO TO -DjVLad- cHANNEL AND LOOK AT HIM ON THOSE VIDEOS HE IS ALOT SKINNYER NOW THAN WAY BAcK HUH cOME ON Bdog ANYBODY KAN SEE THAT VERY cLEAR

[@streetgangs]

we have so much footage in our archives. We was going to use this for a different project.

[@blackmanea3112]

StreetTV I WASNT TALKING ABOUT YOU AND THATS WITH ALL DO RESPEcT I WAS ONLY TRYING TO POINT OUT THAT HE WAS ON YOUR PLATFORM MANY YEARS AGO WITH A PEAcE OF HISTORY AND THAT WAS GOOD ENUFF ON HIS PART BUT FOR HIM TO TELL MAJORIDY OF IT ON THAT STUPID DjVLad PLATFOTM IS WHERE WE MOST OF US GOT UPSET BEcAUSE WHY NOT SEE HIM SHARE SOME HISTORY ON KevMac PLATFORMS BUT OK I SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING WITH HIM JUST HOPE HE DONT MAKE EVERYBODY WHO WAS ON YOUR PLATFORMS AND KevMac PLATFORMS ALL LOOK LIKE LIARS

[@blackmanea3112]

StreetTV OH AND ALSO JUST UPLOAD THEM ON YOUR AlexA.Alonso PLATFORM WAIT WAIT THAT WONT WORK I GUESS IF THATS HOW YOU SEE IT

[@marlzz8126]

Crisp kill each other . Nipsey and fatts got taken out by their own and tookie was snitched by his own crew lol

[@t_challathagod172]

Fatts too? Killed by his six 0?

[@sabirabdul-lateef5352]

It shows you this is all foolishness at end of day.

[@louismannn9901]

Oh please Nipsey death was a hoax go look back at the fakeness no blood on a man that got shot in the head once and took 5 to the chest. Fire Dept emt was pumping on his chest with no blood on the white gloves ....be real go back and look it up Nipsey fooled the masses. Watch "mag bitter truth channel's" "Nipsey Hussle videos" he did at least 5 or more videos showing how it's fake.

[@louismannn9901]

@@sabirabdul-lateef5352 exactly all foolishness and some of these people are agents no disrespect to the real who were just misleading and being misled based on circumstances. I really felt like Rodney King was an agent he wrote a book that had one eye symbolism on the cover. Remember LA riots and King beating.

[@1trucxhondamov589]

I think they repainted that whole house since this interview!

[@peaceful4you408]

Wow!! This is insane!!

[@traedada]

That’s what happened when you got kids raising kids!!!!! Can’t blame TRUE BLUE, gotta blame uneducated youths. -BAR- Stay Tru CUU

[@sobosapparel]

Smoke our Angel Dust 😂

[@cornellmuhammad3912]

Amazing video.

[@ambroselee8234]

It more crips

[@jjosangeles7296]

real Los Angeles soilders

[@seanramsure9764]

So who was the"Coleman" guy in Tookies book? Where does Alfred Coward come into this situation if he was granted immunity?

[@tekarayoung199]

He snitched on him as well

[@LA25250]

Got deported back to canada

[@streetgangs]

he commited a murder in Canada that was caught on video. I wonder if that video is online.

[@LA25250]

StreetTV it was on KZbin a while back i seen it, apparently they took it down

[@romankerimov2852]

​@@tekarayoung199he used snitch on tookie just not gone to death penalty

[@joeymexia1021]

The first house was that across the street from horce Mann middle school?

[@charlesarnesworld]

I take it big james did the murders and put it on Tookie

[@OVERSEEROFRAP]

Damn I was born in 76 super OG niggaz

[@lamontemartin2554]

D0 a doc.on king snake from compton

[@r1ckySV]

Looks like a nice place there

[@JoeBrown]

OG

[@MinusEighty]

Poor Tookie. He was a choir boy singing at church when these killings happened. He was framed. Seriously. It does sound like he was framed. That is what you call karma.

[@Zachw2007]

Is South Central Los Angeles really as hard in 2019 as it was in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s?

[@kidcannaempire7073]

Dumb ass question cuhz its worse

[@mceithdavis3462]

Hell nah

[@convict240]

it's sad that it's almost 2020 and gang banging still exists around there

[@AlexAlonso101]

Z Watkins the 1980s has the most murders

[@wesleyp533]

Hell no

[@ssouthboundpachyderm]

So, they put Tookie to death because James told the cops Tookie did it. Riiiiiight. According to this dude, Tookie wasn't a killer, he was a fighter, but then goes on to say that Tookie didn't contest the first murder they pinned on him, just the 3 others. So if he wasn't a killer, why not contest the one murder they put on him? He was stone cold killer, period. Give him a hit of the dust watch him go to work. Then he conveniently forgets what he has done, he couldn't possibly be guilty of murder if he can't remember doing it, right?

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

Facts bro

[@tdawg4206]

Yeah but when they founded the crips in the sixties that's all it was about was street fighting I heard monster Kody talk about hell they didn't start shooting until the late 70's one that dude shot big Rick the OG of the 60s little brother and that's what started the war between eight Trey and the 60

[@kingbeeris8814]

Man I don't think tookie did that shit they say tookie got caught with the alleged murder weapon and the shotgun shells ain't match the weapon that he was caught with

[@macanmurda2001]

10:50 you know they by LAx airport

[@user-ls5ji9wl7s]

They wanted tookie out they house 😂

[@madmax5431]

I don’t understand visiting a snitch house

[@AlexAlonso101]

this is history. If you been watching Street TV, we like to be on location and go to the actuall places.

[@macanmurda2001]

Cause if it wasn't for dat snitch tookie woulda never got his life took by Arnold..

[@bigbaba1491]

@@macanmurda2001 he never got bis life took by arnold. He committed heinous crimes and was sentenced to death not by arnold, but by a jury. And he did nothing to redeem himself in the eyes of the law, like confessing or cooperating with police, how could Arnold have justified clemency for him. I think arnold would have given him clemency personally, but he had to make that decision as the gouvernor and member of the Republican party in the name of his voters and his fellow republicans not as Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was the gouvernor not the emperor of china who can do as he pleases

[@ambroselee8234]

Stop saying kid shit

[@_k1ng.bk.sm8kes_]

Melvin the crip

[@KOSisNeeded]

time to invest in some mics...!!!

[@AlexAlonso101]

this was shot 5 years ago.

[@williefowlkes6031]

This is real talk

[@i68742]

Tomorrow E-CEO is going live to clear the airways about what really happened with Charleston White & and Melvin Farmer!!

[@tashastewart243]

I was born raised 47th

[@alphatan2]

I cant believe melvin laughs

[@user-rd7er3oq2j]

“We was over here getting high , smoking dust , the girls “..umm I mean act tough , yeah “robbing stores , hiding out” I meant

[@reignkaida]

He don't like snitches but he low-key telling his damn self

[@tinyfalcon1185]

Tookie dead so u can tell the stories

[@michaelmorretti2252]

Evil and Treach from Raymond Ave Crip

[@westcoastnigka]

What intersection is that?

[@joshmoore3127]

Damn what's the Hold up Brother???? We're waiting on you to Finish??

[@delstanley1349]

8:56 STV: "Do we know the name of the victim." MF: "I don't know the name of the victim, but it should be in a cold case and the description shouldn't be hard to find. It's on record once you say where it was, and we can pin point that." Is that really helpful? In LA? An unknown body found in the streets in south central LA probably was about as common then as street weeds! Bodies around Normandie, Florence, Vermont would take a lot of pins to pinpoint. It was an uncovered grave yard with no head stones. Good luck solving anything in that area from those days!

[@freezeizit]

This is a murder that took place in the 70's, a time when murders in LA weren't nearly as common as they eventually became. I'm sure Alex has long figured it out by now with the info given here.

[@JoziMr]

"You wanna see a dead body?"

[@TyrantsAlwaysPerish]

Damn og 💀 looked young asl

[@michaelgodsonmoton9192]

I watched all platforms on this lifestyle and what is sad is that we could be talking about how to build financially and spiritually growing rather than this. I’m not knocking it cause I am all too familiar with it too.

[@rapidfiremuzik_official]

Is gentrification happening in South Central?...and if so, When did this start?

[@MilehighCLE216]

RapidFire Muzik™ “Remember South Central is the most coveted real estate in Southern California. I lived there for about one year and realized that the traffic is so crushing, residents are looking for the most convenient locale to reside. South central It’s centrally located to the major amenities in LA, downtown, LAX airport, the beaches, etc. The new Inglewood metroplex which will be a major mixed use commercial business/residential center just broke ground near LAX. That place used to be a dump where blacks lived, now it will retail commercial square footage at an extraordinarily high lease rate. Black residents sold and are selling for pennies on the dollar, not realizing that they literally have/had a gold mine under their feet. This started roughly 5-7 years ago as African Americans wanted to purchase newer fabricated homes in communities outside of South Los Angeles.

[@wstcst4l]

Also the new Rams stadium in Inglewood and the soccer stadium next to USC which has raised the property value along with rent which is a big reason lower income ppl can no longer afford to live in these areas.

[@Beatbyawhiteboy]

@@wstcst4l Gotta let the rich White folks enjoy the sports. ✊🏼

[@wstcst4l]

@@Beatbyawhiteboy 😁😁😁

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

Wow...does dude realise how crazy he sounds? He says "Tookie was no killer,he was a fighter" then two minutes later he says "Took didnt contest the first murder" 😅😅😅 My man...you may not wanna admit it but the facts are that Tookie was a straight up gangster and killer...end of story.

[@lakesavalentine2149]

Tookie didn't contest because he actually did the first murder while he was on PCP. The 3 murders that got Tookie on he did not do that is the point he is making.

[@ponyboycurtis3795]

@@lakesavalentine2149 yeah i know bro ^^^^ and i understand that but what im saying is that you cant claim sumone aint a killer like Melvin is claiming Tookie wasnt because we all know he done that first murder...which makes him a killer...but yes i believe he was fully railroaded on the other three...for sure and i dont believe he should have got the death penalty.

[@space_dogg]

​@@ponyboycurtis3795He probably knew what he was doing. The clerk would've identified him easy, so he left no witnesses. He killed him calculated and in cold blood. He didn't crawl in there naked on pcp and shot him. Also he bragged on the streets about the hotel murders, and word on the street reportedly was out long before he got arrested. The sportsman park boy Alonzo Interviewed said so. His brain really was fried though. He regained his mental capacity only decades later

[@jeromemathews806]

I thought Dubwc was from 111 NHC?

[@peppajack2149]

Yea that's 111 NHC hood they in

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

this was good... nd funny,

[@keithtowles8354]

I know that Famer is bonafide, so there's no doubt that what he's is true. I wondering if they should be, but this sounds like something they should be talking about?

[@faceface2168]

Melvin a real gee facts he play no game big homie

[@jayclaudio2725]

So who killed ray ray, same year right

[@Horhay21323]

I was busted with juice I remember he had braids over 20+ years ago

[@jamesgreenlees9640]

If he's a snitch how is he walking Around with such bravado

[@bigbaba1491]

Who?

[@theghostjacksonshow3737]

James Garrett is dead

[@Leo-dr4qm]

Do you think tookies arrest could of been a big set up

[@darrellhardin775]

Your lying to cuzzzzzz.took got caught two weeks after the Asian murders

[@ccastro4835]

Whatever happened to James Garrett?

[@theghostjacksonshow3737]

Hes dead

[@batman7895]

R they talkin bout that dude blacky ..? ant he tha one that cheesed out BiGTooKiE..? r wut..??

[@RedStl]

bat man Blackie and James are two different people.

[@AlexAlonso101]

Blackie is Alfred Coward, they let him out, deported him to Canada and killed someone up there/

[@Betterlaylow1]

Man come on, Tookie did it

[@lakesavalentine2149]

The first murder but not the 3 they got got him on

[@thug4life440]

Under a Flite Path,🛫 Dam Jets 🛬

[@jerey53]

💯💯👈🏾

[@banga786]

What was likely the reason Raymond Washington got killed for

[@rolandvaldez2580]

💯

[@jayoils123]

The serial number didn’t match

[@southerncalifornia970]

or the bootprints at the crime scenes

[@bigbaba1491]

If you think they didnt have enough evidence you just read tookies propaganda and repeat it without looking at the real case. They had overwhelming evidence. He killed those people with his own shotgun that he legally bought and got snitched on by people who witnessed the whole thing.

[@lolamlewis8307]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vansonia]

true story.

[@TheBLACKMQQN]

all i hear is self righteousness bs and book material hype.

[@cornell833]

He the police ,🙈👊

[@keith863]

The constant sounds of those passing planes and cars is annoying

[@UpxSetter]

8Original Gangsta Crip3 Mr. Melvin Farmer🧢

[@void-youtubers3507]

Lost causes

[@shakirlateef6839]

👑👽

[@crillznhchkoodsta4337]

Fiya

[@t_challathagod172]

Who volunteered the information? I'm lost. So Tookie told on himself after James told him?

[@Fresh619FBA]

Supposedly, Tookie told James Garrett that he killed those 3 ppl in a robbery. James volunteered this information after he was implicated in a different murder.... James snitched on Tookie..... It seems the OG's know Tookie wasn't a shooter or robber like James was.

[@t_challathagod172]

@@Fresh619FBA I see. If he didn't do the killing then he was lied on. Is James Garret still alive?

[@demeetusbonner234]

@@t_challathagod172 da police beat james and made him say it was tookie facts

[@theghostjacksonshow3737]

@@demeetusbonner234 it wasn't James its was another dude they beat

[@7urmines696]

🤞🏽