Tookie Williams III

To Kill Or Not To Kill

Crip founder, Stanly Williams III, also known as “Tookie”, was born December 29,1953 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was known for being a gang member, an Activist, as well as a writer. Mr. Williams and his mother left New Orleans in 1959, shortly after his father abandoned the family. They moved to Los Angeles hoping to find a better way of life for Tookie and his family. He described the neighborhood as an “Affluent –looking South Central Neighborhood,” where they rented their first apartment. Tookie Williams began to wander the streets at the age of six. He began to find the streets more interesting than being at home. As him being the new kid on the block, he had to learn quickly how to defend himself from the neighborhood

Before he reached his teens years he had became one the most vicious street fighters. He would later become the co-founder of the west side Crips at the age of 17. Being introduced to weightlifting by a gym coach while being in the detention center. In the year of 1976 Tookie lost his maternal grandmother in which he was very close too. His life now started to unravel, losing his job as a counselor in 1977 for being implicated in a robbery in which the suspects were from the group home Tookie worked at. At this point in his life he was going through many challenges in his life being that he was a gang leader as well as a member several things that he loves doing were being taken away like he entering in an Amateur bodybuilding contest. He was denied entrance because of the fact he was member of a gang. Tookie found himself experiencing with drug he encountered a drug habit. For which he funded this addiction by robbing other drug dealers. This would become his undoing as most would say. Three fellow gang members under the influence of PCP-laced cigarettes and drove into a convenience store with

A particular case was Earl Washington who had and IQ of 69. In 1983 he was coerced by police to confess to a murder. In 1982 Mr. Earl was sentenced to death Sixteen years later DNA evidence provide him innocent.