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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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