OctoSeveral gangs have been cast as extras in a new film called The Education of Sonny Carson, including the Tomahawks (48), Pure Hell (22) and the Unknown Riders (43). Police report “the Screaming Phantoms operated out of the Williamsburg area and had been ‘way out of their area’ at the scene of yesterday’s gang fight.” Two boys associated with the Devils Rebels were stabbed and killed. AugSeveral members of the Devils Rebels (19) were walking around Bushwick when they were accosted by the Screaming Phantoms (11). SeptemA gang altercation among the members of the Young Barons (44) resulted in the death of one young man and another whose nose was cut off. I’ve put numbers by the gangs so you can find their dedicated turf on the map above: I dug a little further to find some specific incidents which involved some of these gangs. Gang activity was so especially vicious at this time - particularly gang-vs-gang violence - that Luis Garten Acosta, the founder of El Puente youth outreach program, called northern Brooklyn ‘the killing fields’ in 1981.
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