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SHADY EIGHTIES The Eight Trey Gangster Crips, also known as Hell Gang, and Movin Gang, are a predominately African-American street gang, founded during the mid-1970s as a splinter gang off the Original West Side Crips. Rayford “Big Sidewinder” Miles was the founder who created this neighborhood which was a split-off from the West Side Crips. Sidewinder cofounded the set with Jeffrey “Big Bay” Bacot, Cornell “Hunchy” McKinney, Melvin “Skull” Farmer, and Jesse “Hillbilly” Ford were also co-founders. The original name, Original Gangster Crips, was created by Skull, but after he was arrested, Sidewinder changed the name slightly to Eight Tray Gangster Crips, because he actually lived on 83rd Street. Even though the set started on 83rd Street, it spanned north and south stretching from roughly Gage to Century, covering over 40 city blocks similar to the old boundaries of the West Side Crips. Over the years, they formed several sub-clicks and including the Original South Side, Deep South Side, Bacc West Side, Far West Side, and Nutty North Side. A section of their turf extends west past Western Avenue where St Andrews Park is located. Though the 60's and a few other gangs outnumber them in membership. North Side, Farr West Side, Original West Side (retired), Bacc West Side, and the South Side are the main cliques active within their turf. Eight Trey Gangster Crips are mostly known for their beefs with the Rollin' 60's and 90's that have been going on for over four decades. These beefs are what has led to the major split and animosity between most Gangster Crip and Neighborhood Crip sets both across LS County and the rest of San Andreas. The Gangster Crip card is said to have started as a result of the feud between the Rollin' 60's Neighborhood Crips and the 83 Gangster Crips that resulted in the Gangster Crip card being founded at Saint Andrews Park in 1979. Most Crip gangs on the East Side of South Central would choose to align themselves with 83GC, except East Coast Crip and Main Street Mafia Crip, while most gangs on the West Side allied with the Rollin' 60's under NHC/Rollin Card besides the West Los Treys, Hoovers, and 99 Mafia Crip. '92 RIOTS The 1992 Los Santos riots were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in South Los Santos during April, and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Santos on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Santos Police Department charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Michael King. The incident had been videotaped by a bystander to the incident and was heavily broadcast in news and media outlets. The rioting took place in several areas in the Los Santos metropolitan area as thousands of people rioted over six days following the verdict's announcement. Widespread looting, assault, and arson occurred during the riots, which local police forces had difficulty controlling. The situation in the Los Santos area was resolved after the California National Guard, San Andreas Military, and several federal law enforcement agencies deployed more than 10,000 of their armed first responders to assist in ending the violence and unrest. When the riots ended, 63 people had been killed, 2,383 had been injured, more than 12,000 had been arrested, and estimates of property damage were over $1 billion. Little Seoul, situated just to the north of South Central LS, was disproportionately damaged. Much of the blame for the extensive nature of the violence was attributed to the LSPD Chief of Police who had already announced his resignation by the time of the riots, for failure to de-escalate the situation and overall mismanagement. Before the release of the Michael King videotape, minority community leaders in Los Santos had repeatedly complained about harassment and the use of excessive force against their residents by Los Santos Police Department officers. Chief of the LSPD from 1978 to 1992, has been attributed with much of the blame for the riots. According to one study, "scandalous racist violence... marked the LSPD under tempestuous leadership. The LSPD had begun Operation Hammer in April 1987, which was a large-scale militarized push in Los Santos. The origin of Operation Hammer can be traced to the 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Santos. The LSPD expanded gang sweeps for the duration of the Olympics. These were implemented across wide areas of the city but especially in South Central and East Los Santos, areas of predominately minority residents. After the games were over, the city began to revive the use of earlier anti-syndicalist laws in order to maintain the security policy started for the Olympic games. The police more frequently conducted mass arrests of African American youth. Citizen complaints against police brutality increased by 33 percent in the period 1984-1989. By 1990 more than 50,000 people, mostly minority males, had been arrested in such raids. During this period, the LSPD arrested more young black people since the Rancho riots of 1965. Critics have alleged that the operation was racially motivated because it used racial profiling, targeting African American and Mexican American youths. The perception that police had targeted non-white citizens likely contributed to the anger that erupted in the 1992 riots. The Christopher Commission later concluded that a "significant number" of LSPD officers "repetitively use excessive force against the public and persistently ignore the written guidelines of the department regarding force." The biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation were found to have regularly contributed to the LSPD's use of excessive force. The commission's report called for the replacement of both Chief Of Police and the civilian Police Commission. POLICE INTERVENTION AT 71st AND NORMANDIE At Florence and Halldale, two officers issued a plea for assistance in apprehending a young Eight Trey gang member who had thrown an object at their car and whom they were pursuing on foot. Approximately two dozen officers, commanded by 77th Street Division LSPD Lieutenant Eric Moulin, arrived and arrested the youth, 16-year-old Sean Daniels, forcing him into the back of a car. The rough handling of the young man, a well-known minor in the community, further agitated an uneasy and growing crowd, who began taunting and berating the police. The police formed a perimeter around the arresting officers as the crowd grew more hostile, leading to further altercations and arrests. One member of the crowd stole the flashlight of an LSPD officer. Fearing police would resort to deadly force to repel the growing crowd. Lieutenant Moulin ordered officers out of the area altogether. Moulin later said that officers on the scene were outnumbered and unprepared to handle the situation because their riot equipment was stored at the police academy. Moulin made the call for reporting officers to retreat from the 71st and Normandie area entirely at approximately 5:50 p.m. They were sent to an RTD bus depot at 54th and Arlington and told to await further instructions. The command post formed at this location was set up at approximately 6 p.m. but had no cell phones or computers other than those in squad cars. It had insufficient numbers of telephone lines and handheld police radios to assess and respond to the situation. Finally, the site had no televisions, which meant that as live broadcasts of unrest began, command post officers could not see any of the coverage. After the retreat of officers at 71st and Normandie, many proceeded one block south to the intersection of Florence and Normandie. Just after 6 p.m., a group of young men broke the padlock and windows to Tom's Liquor, allowing a group of more than 100 people to raid the store and loot it. Concurrently, the growing number of rioters in the street began attacking civilians of non-black appearance, throwing debris at their cars, pulling them from their vehicles when they stopped, smashing window shops, or assaulting them while they walked on the sidewalks. As a member of the film crew continued to film the scene on the ground with his camcorder, the Los Santos News Service team arrived in a news helicopter, broadcasting from the air. The LANS feed appeared life on numerous Los Santos television venues. At approximately 6:15 p.m., as reports of vandalism, looting, and physical attacks continued to come in, Moulin elected to "take the information" but not to respond or send personnel to restore order or rescue people in the area. Moulin was relieved by a captain, ordered only to assess the Florence and Normandie area, and, again, not to attempt to deploy officers there. Meanwhile, bystanders in the area labeled the police presence as "none". Although the Los Santos Mayor lifted the curfew, signaling the official end of the riots, sporadic violence and crime continued for a few days afterward. Schools, banks, and businesses reopened. Federal troops did not stand down until May 9. The Army National Guard remained until May 14. Some National Guard soldiers remained as late as May 27. Between fifty and sixty people had died and two thousand more were injured. Damage estimates climbed to nearly $1 billion. While residents tried to rebuild their communities, federal authorities charged the four police officers in the King case with civil rights violations. Two of the officers were found guilty and sentenced to prison. THE 3X/GANGSTER CRIP CARD As many major "Gangster Crip vs. Gangster Crip'' wars began to pop off, it caused sets such as 42/43/48 Gangster Crips, 87 Gangster Crips, 97 Gangster Crips, and Budlong Gangster Crips to become friendly with Rollin/Neighborhood/Blocc Crip gangs due to their ongoing beefs with more respected Gangster Crip factions like 83 Gangsters, Avalon Gangsters, and Broadway Gangsters. Gangster Crip sets that align themselves with anything claiming Rollin'/NHC/BC are automatically considered "unofficial" or "watered down” by sets that abide by traditional GC/3X politics. Gangster Crip sets that prioritize beefing with NHC/2X Crip gangs over older blood rivalries often use the phrase “G before the C'' to signify their loyalty to the Gangster Crip card alone as opposed to the larger Crip umbrella as a whole. In recent years the younger generation of members from Gangster Crip sets have even gone as far as to cross color lines and associate with Blood gangs like BPS, NHP, and IFGB due to their shared hatred of the Neighborhood Crip/2X gangs despite past feuds between the two sides in earlier decades. Which has led to modern day alliances in the city such as "Suwoop Movin Groovin" that would not have been tolerated during the height of “Blood vs. Crip” gang wars the city experienced in prior decades. The Suwoop, Movin, Groovin movement is an unofficial alliance between various different Blood, Crip, and Hoover gangs on the West side of South Los Santos. Suwoop, Movin, and Groovin was allegedly formed around 2010 when several gangs who feud heavily with the Neighborhood card came together under one alliance, with the Eight Trey Gangster Crips and the Inglewood Family Gangster Bloods being the main sets mentioned. At one time, the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips and the Eight Tray Gangster Crips were close allies and often fought rival gangs together. However, by the early 1980s, they were engaged in all-out warfare. In September 1979 a 15-year-old member of the Eight Tray Gangster Crips got into a fight with a teenage member of the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips over a girl who had been dating both young men. In a subsequent fist-fight between the two teenagers, a new recruit to the Eight Trays, eager to make a name for himself, pulled a gun and shot the Rollin 60s member to death. The older brother of the 60s member who was killed, also a member of the Rollin 60's himself, demanded that the Eight Trays hand over the new recruit to be punished in order to prevent a war between the two gangs. The Eight-Trays were unable to find the new recruit for he had already turned himself in to the police. The Rollin 60's, feeling that the "Treys" weren't being honest, murdered a member of the Eight Trays in retaliation. Although a meeting was called by the leaders of both gangs in an attempt to end the fight, tensions were so high between them that the meeting erupted into a gang rumble, after which the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips and the Eight Tray Gangster Crips engaged in a gang war that still exists to this day. This rivalry is responsible for being the first Crip-on-Crip rivalry in history. The feud has spilled over into surrounding neighborhoods, forcing other gangs to chose sides in the conflict. Gangs who aligned themselves with the Eight Tray Gangster Crips adopted the “Gangster Crips” or Tray(3x) card while those who aligned themselves with the Rollin 60’s adopted the "Neighbor Hood Crips" or Deuce(2x) card.

THE MAKING OF A CRIP Unlike most sets in the Southern District, Eight Tray Gangster Crips are based mostly on representing their affiliation either by colors (Mainly Grey or Blue), tags or music. They're most well known for being very provocative to their rivals and claim that every single other gang is basically a no match for them, using phrases such as "Movin Gang or don't bang". The ETG are also rivals to all “Rollin 0s” gangs which would include the Rollin 40s, Rollin 30s and the Rollin 90s. Their rivalry “NeighborHood” or “NH” gangs included the 67 NeighborHood Crips (67 NHC), located on the north side of their territory. They are rivals to all Blood gangs but their main Blood rivalry is with the Strawberry Family Gang (SFG) located to the west of their territory, but it must be noted that their rivalry with the Rollin’ 60s Crips is stronger than with any blood gang. The SFGs are attributed for the first ETG casualty which predates their rivalry with the Sixties (1979). Their Crip rivalries include Rollin 30’s, 40NH, 55NH, 57NH, 58NH, 60NH, 67NH, 90NH, 100’S NH, NH103HTHC, 111NH, 112NH, 115NH, UnderGround Crips, BCG, Menlo Crips, BudLong Crips, Geer Gang, 99 Mafia Crips, and 87 Gangsta Crips. OOC INFORMATION Our goal is to portray a modern day 83 Gangster Crip, our leadership has allocated some time for the purpose of researching Eight Tray Gangster Crips. We aim to provide the most enjoyable and creative roleplay for our members and the community at large. This faction is an open one, so anyone can join. However it depends on the case, as members can be striked or kicked from the faction if they do not follow the rules of the server and the faction in general. Things like toxicity and deathmatching which are very common in the scene are not allowed. So if you fail to conform to these standards, you will be removed. Those who are interested in playing roles within the faction should create a character aged 14-22. The key to progressing in this faction is development. Your character can be born and raised in the faction, or you can play the role by moving in. Either way, your character should not be involved in illegal activities in the first week of roleplaying with this faction. Upon entering the discord, you will be greeted by the welcome bot. The welcome bot gives you all the information and requirements needed to get your role in the discord. Once you have met these requirements, you will be asked to write a short character story so that we can get an idea of your character. Our leadership and board are not only experienced role-players, but also experienced leaders. Our private messages are always open to the public for any questions, concerns or any complaints. If you ever feel the need to contact any of the leaders, you can always PM @Penguin or @Mobb Skiton forums or discord.