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Bloods and Crips
In 1992, Aqeela Sherrills helped negotiate a truce between the two main gangs in Los Angeles, the Bloods and the Crips.
In the early 1990s, gang warfare in South Central Los Angeles was claiming hundreds of lives a year. Then, in 1992, peace activist Aqeela Sherrills helped negotiate a truce between the two main black gangs, the Bloods and the Crips. He tells Witness how it transformed his local neighbourhood of Watts.
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