The Cross And The Switchblade Nicky Cruz

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New York City Fighting Gangs. Anyone recall a guy nick names Pepe? 2007 Everything Everything Microsoft Office Outlook on this page. Best known were the Chaplins.

The Cross And The Switchblade Nicky Cruz

Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Henry Enrique “Erik” Estrada was born on March 16, 1949 in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, NY. He is an American police officer (deputy sheriff) and actor. After one of my recent lectures, a Christian college student approached me and asked if black people are uncomfortable with the fact that Jesus is white. I responded. Nicky Cruz (born December 6, 1938) is a Christian evangelist, the founder of Nicky Cruz Outreach, an evangelistic Christian ministry. He was also once the director of.

Karen mentioned the gang problem in her area being bad today. I have to clarify that the gangs of today are mostly about drug dealing, prostitution, and gun violence. Back in the 5. 0s we were about protecting our hood, having great parties, dressing clean, and romancing the girls. There were not many guns, zip guns at that, and we fought hand to hand combat maybe using sticks, knives and belts. And in jail back then you went to do your time not continue gang activities like today where you can get killed for a tattoo. Back then we also wore majestic sweaters with great designs and superb lettering.

I was an Egyptian Crown from the Bronx and the other gangs were the Scorpions, Sportsmen, Lightnings, Rockets, Young Sinners, Royal Knights, Baldies, red Wings, and many more. In the 1. 97. 0s I met a man named Kyle who claimed that he was a member of . Could he have been a member of a gang that had the word Lord's in the name? He was in his 4. 0 s when I met htm. We have our own gang problems here and they're not romantic.

Cold blooded is how I'd describe them. Thanks for your research. Really interesting. KR. *Hi Karen, . Hope to read that how it really went down will come to light.

All those other Mau Mau cats that really made it happen and were forgotten. The Mau Maus that were never given their fare share of recognition. Torres spoke about his older family members killing and cutting up other denominations. According to his dates, it was a time when Puerto Ricans were perpetrated on in Harlem and we were forced to create gangs to defend ourselves. They were the Dragons, Viceroys and Puerto Rican Dukes. Gangs were the street way of protecting their neighborhoods against others, especially when all police were white and many racists.

I must say that the cop on the beat back then got to know us and our families well and treated us fair. Todays gangs stand for stupidity, drugs, and murder. The 1. 95. 0s and 5.

NY. Stars as I remember the other major gang was the Bullets hung 1. Morris Ave. Haven't written in a while, but after reading a few new entries i chose to write. When it came to toughness all gangs had heart and were tough, after all they were originally formed for protection from whatever nationality ruled the hood.

Back in the fifties with Chaplins, and Mau Maus in Brooklyn, Viceroys, Dragons and Red Wings in Harlem, and Young Sinners, Scorpions, baldies, Egyptian Crowns in the Bronx life was rough. We had heart because 9. With all the battles we had none took more lives than the Viet Nam War and Heroin. Those of us bangers that are still around, we either were lucky, woke up, beat AIDS, or found God. Hopefully you old heads are steering the young men of today in the right direction.

As a Puerto Rican I know we are for real We need to school the young ones big time. Carmen: I remember the Horsemen. His family owned 1. Meserole St. Although one Sunday evening in 1.

I stopped by the bodega on the corner of Meserole and Humboldt. Hospital on 1. 06th Street in 1. Ann's on East 1. 10th between 1st & 2nd, which was in Red Wing territory. Art Of Murder Deadly Secrets V1 0 Cracked Screen. He stabbed him in the chest and lucky for Frankie he didn't die, otherwise he would have been in for murder. They called her queeny and She's 7. Just wondering if there's any of her affiliates still out there?

It was an early summer morning and I had just come out of my apartment building on W 1. I would take her across the street to Highbridge Park where I also played baseball everyday. The sun was coming up and the morning sun in my eyes made me squint. I started to walk the half block to cross Amsterdam Ave as had done so many times before. I was six years old at the time. I saw the detectives and cops in the Park looking for clues .

Of course, the cops had the entrance into the park sealed off and would not allow anyone, other than cops, into the park. When I asked someone what happened, I was told a . The neighborhood and the City, needless to say, was shocked. It got even worse when the story began to circulate that Michael Farmer had polio and was not able to run away. Before this murder the teenagers fought with Garrison Belts or hands. After that murder, the teenagers on my street formed a gang called . Puerto Rican by birth but grew up in the LES from 1.

We lived on Rivington St. Fortunately my brother and I were saved by the youth counselors from the Nativity Mission Center and Father Walter Janner. Without them, there's no telling what might have been of us. I forwarded your web address to a friend in Texas who's father was War Lord for the Mau Maus and maybe he'll have some useful input for your book. The horsemen's always met st Wm. Gaynor junior high school.

Late 4. 0's, early 5. My father and godfather grew up in Washington heights. I WAS A 1. 4 YR OLD WHO ATTENDED AVIATION HS IN QUEENS.

LIVING ON DEKALB AVE BET. LEWIS AND STYVESANT. AND HAVING ATTENDED A MOSTLY WHITE CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR 8 YRS, I HAD A SOMEWHAT SHELTERED CHILDHOOD.

AS A RESULT UPON GRADUATION I WAS DRAWN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND JHS 5. GREENE AND STYVESANT).

ALTHOUGH NOT A MEMBER I STARTED HANGING OUT WITH THE IMPERIAL LORDS, A YOUNGER ARM OF THE STOMPERS. DURING A PERIOD OF ABOUT 5 YRS, 3 MEMBERS OF THE STOMPERS WERE KILLED BY THE BUCCANEERS (SUMNER PROJECTS).

FIRST WAS WACO BEATEN TO DEATH ON MYRTLE AVE NEAR SUMNER. THE SECOND WAS SPIKE,STABBED TO DEATH ON KOSKIOUSKO ST BET LEWIS AND STYVESANT. THE THIRD WAS A GUY NAMED FREDDY (JUNKIE) SHOT TO DEATH ON VERNON AVE BET LEWIS AND STYVESANT. IT WAS THE LAST KILLING THAT BECAME MORE PERSONAL. SO ONE OF THE OLDER GUYS (MADDOG OR CARL ) DECIDED TO GO EARLY (TO IMPRESS US YOUNG GUYS I SUPPOSE.) AROUND 8. PM ON VERNON AND STY AVE SHOTS RANG OUT FROM A SECOND FLOOR WINDOW.

AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME WE ENDED UP BEING CHASED BY BUCCANEERS (INCLUDING BUNNY WHO I RECOGNIZED) I RAN DOWN MYRTLE AVE BEING CHASED BY ABOUT 3 GUYS. I WAS SO SCARED I RAN INTO A BODEGA AND WENT BEHIND THE COUNTER,BEGGING THE OWNER NOT TO LET THEM GET ME.

HE CHASED THEM OUT AND I THINK BECAUSE I WAS SO YOUNG (AND THEY WORRIED THE POLICE WERE CALLED) THEY LEFT. I RAN ALL THE WAY HOME WITHOUT STOPPING. Raised on Jefferson and Nostrand ave Brooklyn.

I lived on the borderline of Bishops and Chaplains. I went to JHS PS. I was a Suicde Ringo Bishop. Warlord of Saint Johns Division. The Pres of the Big People was Goat. The Pres of the Little People was Big Ceasar. We had a Dum and Bugle Corp called The Bedford Stuyvesant Golden Aces we were located on Rogers Ave and Sterling Place.

John's Suicide Ringo Bishops. Our Enemies were Albany Chaplains, Itchy Brothers, The Hilltoppers and Crucifiers. Tilden Ave Righteous Brothers. We Turfed on Franklin Ave. From Atlantic Ave to Eastern Parkway after we took the Hill fron the Irish and Italian Hilltoppers/ Crucifiers. Ringo,Waco, Delli, Deacon, Leadpipe, Dice and many more to various to mention but Suicides nonetheless. I retired from. Jitterbugging around 1.

Between 1. 96. 3 to 1. Many were Drafted to Vietnam.

Some of us still see each other on occasion. I thank Allah in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad for Messenger Elijah Muhammad which heiped me take my Militancy in a Positive Direction. I am your Brother The Mighty Sheik Shskeem Ala' D.

That was an excellent clarification of the Mau Maus and the Suicide Mau Maus. Two gangs that actually roamed the same turf. Thanks again. I have been fascinated by the Mau Maus since I first read about them in 1. Durban (my family were new immigrants from England).

I didn't know at the time but I believe that Nicky Cruz was in South Africa giving talks, and perhaps this is why his book was doing the rounds among my classmates. My great curiosity about the Mau Maus street gang is in part due to their name. In the UK there is a military unit called the Special Air Service (SAS). Their exploits, and those of similar units around the world are legendary. However I once read that perhaps one of the greatest things they ever did, was to call themselves .