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Crips Gang Founder Brokers Peace
W hile in the “hole,” W illiam s lion, some with tears in their eyes,”
begins reading, praying, study­ said Becnel. "Mr. W illiams’ mes­
ster lifestyle and I deeply regret ing w ords, history, and politics. sage helped spark a gang truce
that I ever did," writes W illiams, in He then meets a w riter working on between Crips and Bloods.”
a formal apology for co-founding a book ab o u t gangs. B arbara
In 2000. Williams was nominated
the Crips. "I pray that one day my Becnel, played by W hitfield, be­ for the Nobel Peace Prize.
apology will be accepted. I also gins visiting T ookie and agrees
“To get to real change, you
pray that your suffering caused by to help him write children's books have to have system s in place.
gang violence will soon come to an an d g e t m e s s a g e s o u t to Then, you put a pow erful voice
end, as more gang members wake g an g b a n g ers in Los A n g eles, with that system and you get the
up and stop hurting themselves
and others."
Williams started the Crips in
1971, when he was 16, with Raymond
Ix e Washington, who was killed
by a rival gang member in 1979, the
sameyearMr. Williams went tojail.
On April 11, Fox’s FX network - Stanley “Tookie" Williams in a formal apology for co-founding the Crips
aired, "Redemption,” the made-for-
television movie starring Jamie Foxx which helps create truces.
resu lt,” said Hall o f Fam e athlete
and Lynn Whitfield.
“Stan had the courage to em ­ an d a c to r Jim B ro w n , w h o
The movie tells the exhilarating brace humanity in the most inhu­ founded A m er-I-Can, a gang in­
story o f a boy from the South who m ane o f circ u m sta n ce s,” said tervention program.
moves to Los Angeles and, to pro­ Becnel during a star-studded pre­
“We have worked for years to
tect his neighborhood, unites sev­ miere o f the movie at Fox Studios. put a system in place and have now
eral smaller gangs into the Crips. She says she decided to work joined forces with the powerful
Known as Tookie, Williams be­ closely with Williams after she wit­ voice o f Stanley W illiams," said
comes the King o f the Crips. He n essed a room fu ll o f 4 0 0 Brown, who recently visited with
maintains his reign over the gang gangbangers watch a taped mes­ Williams for three hours on death
while incarcerated until he is sent to sage of his.
row. "Tookie is brilliant and has a
solitary confinement for six years.
“They gave him a standing ova- fantastic spirit.”
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May 05. 2004
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