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Gang members admit that they used the riots for their own ends but refuse to take responsibility for them. "Gangs get blamed for everything that happens," says Randy ("Bird") Strickland, 21, a leader of a South Central L.A. gang not participating in the truces. "Gangs are bad, true enough. But if everybody stopped gang-banging right now, there'd still be crime." Strickland says gang members, like many other South Central residents, were outraged over the acquittal of the four L.A.P.D. officers tried for the videotaped beating of Rodney King. "They just kicked us right in the face with...
...Jeffries] does not necessarily represent all Black candidates," said Strickland, one of the panelists...
Later, during the question and answer period, Black Law Students Association member David Strickland criticized Fried's use of Jeffries as "an exemplar...
...Jeffries] does not necessarily represent all Black candidates," said Strickland, one of the panelists...
...that is by no means a sure thing. Strickland is in many respects the most interesting person in the book, a spectator whose outward cynicism may mask a hunger for the truth as avid, in its own way, as Browne's. The pleasure he takes in his debunking films seems tinged with bitterness, as if his quest for good, honorable people has once again been disappointed. Strickland thinks that his stammer prompts others to show him their worst sides: "His infirmity seemed to encourage people toward boasting and indiscretion. He had noticed it even as a child. It was they...