Raymond Lee Washington, the founder of the Crips, member of the Baby Avenues
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Raymond Washington from a 1974 police mug shot
Raymond Lee Washington grew up on 76th Street on the East Side of Los Angeles near Fremont High School and is the founder of what would later be known as the Crips. It was in 1969 when Washington organized several neighborhood kids in a click called the Baby Avenues (aka Avenue Cribs). By late 1971 the Cribs where being referred to as the Crips and their reputation around Los Angeles grew. It was around this time when Washington met Stanley Tookie Williams, who lived on the westside and recruited him into the Crips. In 1999, Alex Alonso published a detailed history on the Crips in Territoriality Among African American Street Gangs in Los Angeles which in 2000 inspired the documentary, Lords of the Mafia (aka Gangsta King) which tells the story of how the Crips formed in Los Angeles.
Raymond Lee Washington was killed on August 9, 1979, five months after Tookie Williams was arrested for quadruple murder. No one was was ever arrested in Washington’s murder.
An article about Raymond Washington was published in issue #5 of Allhood Magazine.
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i cant believe so many have a say on somethingthey know nothing about !but then again when ur cybering u can sayanything go on the streetsof cpt and find 1 of us and say this and see if u can talk w/o wires n ur mouth 4 the next 6 to 8 wks!!!!CRIPPIN TILL I DIE AND THEY PLACE A BLUE FLAG ACROSS MY CASKET
Crips aint as stupid as you think we are.
It iz what it is get off it and get what they was on one big crip ship kill the set trip!!! C-Establised
does anyone else see the kind of mentally challenged look this dude’s got goin on? he’s seriously got some neurological disorder, just judging a book by its cover. i just know when you got that low a forehead, it doesn’t bode well for your brain size….. just sayin… personal experience.
this guy and tookie and all you stupid retard crips mofos ruined the black community. may you all die and burn in hell FOREVER.
judge not yest u b judged urself!we aint as stupid as u think !we rmakin a livin the best way we know how were a fam we police urselves ,govern urselves an take care of urselves an ur fam !!!!!were fathers an mothers justlike u azzholes that talk about us !!!resource more before u open ur mouth an show people just how stupid u really r!!!!!!
Tookie did start the west side crips don’t get it twisted, Raymonds work was on the east side, west side till I die !
Territory ? Five Duce Hoova. Affiliation ? None.
I try to love way more than I hate .
May you all continue to kill your people by the hundreds..bless you all..maybe if we are lucky, you dudes will blast each other out of existence..we, the honest people in LA, can only hope..
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These thuggish idiots are all cowards. It don’t take guts to kill an innocent unarmed person that’s why they DON’T enlist I the military , cos the other guys have guns too and shoot back.,.bunch of pussies.
exactly. at least when gangs kill each other they’re both armed. still, profile of a total coward.
You gangsters are all weak if you want to kill just enlist in the military. You guys are not men`s you were raised by your mother`s only so you don`t know anything about being men`s. All of you can`t read or write so it`s not your fault you say gangsters only know about white t-shirts and cars. But you wait your time will come soon many of you have kids so you wait and see what the outcome will be for them.
c.r.i.p. to my original east side crip raymond lee washington….. this east side 76 east coast crips…. … 76street. is where raymond washington first started the !crips! on the east side of south central l.a. east side up!
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go learn ENGLISH. DAMN you look stupid.
Nice! Great article! Thank you.
everybody know hoova”s killed him
thats y ecc stay killin them snoovas
i dont like orange anyway
slap a snoova all day
how do u know Hoova killed King Raymond
TRY AGAIN
i thought paybacc crips got paid by bloods 2 do dat
RAYMOND WORK WAS ON THE EAST SIDE BUT DON’T GET IT TWISTED. CRIP STARTED IN THE EAST BY RAYMOND AND MIGRATED TO THE WEST AND COAST CRIP 4 LIFE! EAST SIDE 97 ECG 4 DEATH DOE!
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873 fool!
what stupid?
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is that how much money you paid for your last crack fix or just one more reference to the code for murder? wait, sorry let me talk your talk.
187 187 187 f f do dat fo mo lulu crip crip. understand?
great. now go rip your vocal chords out.
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DIS MAN WAS KILLED BY HOOVAS DATS WHY 52HGC STILL CRIPPIN
dis = this. hoovas = ? who cares. dats = thats. 52 HGC = who cares.
still crippin = “i’m still the dumbest person on the planet”
LEARN ENGLISH. YOU LOOK LIKE A RETARD.
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why did the media keep saying tookie williams started the crips when that is not actual or factual.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCrFAmVRpMs
Because that sounded more sensational and would make people more interested in the story. The media ain’t shit Cuzz!!