Misguided Loyalty by Katie DuBrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm The Timeline of Tommy Shakur Ross's Downfall en-us 2019-04-26 20:39:44 UTC 2019-04-26 21:32:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Tommy grows up in L.A. with a Pastor father and his Nurse mother leading a fairly normal childhood. katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354602656 2019-04-26 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354602656 Tommy is made to go to church every week and starts to resent in and begins misbehaving. His father whips him as a form of discipline. He continues to rebel against his father. katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354602827 2019-04-26 20:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354602827 A friend introduces Tommy to the 8 Tray Gang. Tommy realized there is a sense of camaraderie amongst the gang and that is something he longs for. When he was 13 he was jumped by a group of gang members and that made him want to join a gang. katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354603331 2019-04-26 20:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354603331 At the age of 15, Tommy joins the 8 Tray gang where he gets the nickname 'The Joker.' He glamorizes the life of gang members. katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354604171 2019-04-26 20:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354604171 katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354604524 In 1985, at the age of 19 he shoots and kills a rival gang member (Stanford Bursey) five times outside a liquor store for a comment he found offensive.  Stanford associated him with the rollin' 60 gang, which were known as Bloods. The 8 Tray gang are crips.  

Tommy gets off the streets because he fears retaliation. ]]> 2019-04-26 20:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354604524 Four days after Tommy kills Stanford Bursey the rival gang members retaliate by killing his 15 year old brother and his mother. katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354607146  On September 15, 1985 Tommy was arrested.

Tommy has since realized that belonging to a gang was not the life he thought it would be and being in prison changed who he was. ]]> 2019-04-26 21:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354607146 Prison Gangs and Security Threat Groups katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354607947 2019-04-26 21:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354607947 Aryan Brotherhood katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608032 - White 
- Formed in San Quentin State Prison in 1967.
Allies: Mexican Mafia
Rivals: Black Guerilla Family
Symbols: Swastika, '666', SS Lightning Bolts, etc.]]> 2019-04-26 21:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608032 Black Guerilla Family katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608209 - African American 
- Founded in he 60's by incarcerated Black Panthers. 
Allies: La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Aryan Brotherhood
Symbols: Crossed Sabers, machetes, rifles, black dragon, etc. ]]> 2019-04-26 21:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608209 Bloods katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608697 - African American
- Formed in South Central L.A. in the 1960's to defend against Crips.
Allies: La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Crips, Aryan Brotherhood
Symbols: Color Red, red bandanna, crossed out 'C', 'blood' hand signal. ]]> 2019-04-26 21:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608697 Crips katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608995 - African American
- Formed in South Central L.A. in the 1960's.
Allies: Black Guerilla Family, La Nuestra Familia
Rivals: Bloods, Vice Lords, Aryan Brotherhood.
Symbols: Color Blue, Blue bandanna, BK Knight tennis shoes to represent 'blood killas."]]> 2019-04-26 21:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354608995 Security Threat Group katie_dubrule https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354609475 A Security Threat Group, or STG, is a group of 3 or more inmates who engage in activity that poses a threat to the safety of other inmates or prison staff. Punishments for forming an STG is solitary confinement, loss of privileges, parole delays, etc.]]> 2019-04-26 21:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/katie_dubrule/wiuonvzje1tm/wish/354609475