Slauson Massacre Summary

This documentary begins with the story about how Los Angeles was broken up. There were certain areas where African Americas were not allowed to across because the police would arrest them and tell them that they did not belong there. This break up was between Alameda street, passing Alameda they were not allow to go to. African American people were fed up and a created the 1965 LA riots. This riot broke out due to the African American people fed up with the police infuse treatment. These riots occurred on the streets of Avalon and Central which lasted for about five days. These riots lasted for five days that the national guard had to come and put a stop to it. Many African Americans, both male and female got injured. After this riot the creation of the Slauson gang formed. The police and everyone else believed they were gang members but the people in the group believed they were a group. They believed they were a group because hey weren’t allowed to be in boy scouts or any other group. After the Slauson gang was created different little group of the Slauson gang started forming their won little groups. This is were the Crips and the Bloods came out. Crips were the gangs who wore blue while Bloods were the gangs that wore red. Crips and Bloods are rival gangs. If there was a Crip in a Blood neighborhood they would be …show more content…
A social group is two or more indivduals that have a common goals, interact and have an awareness of we. Crips and Bloods Made in America relate to this concept because Crips and Bloods can be considered a group. This group can be considered as a structional funcionlasit because the overviewof this theory is that deviants are products of society. Crips and Blood were a product of society which was the cops who were mistreating them. The cops did not allow the African-American people to achieve success in living. African-Americans got to a point where they took justice in their own