White gangs around the city prepared for revenge.
In prison, white gangs were allied with Sureños and black gangs with Norteños.
Officially, the pool was integrated, but in practice black and Hispanic residents of Harlem who came north to use it often encountered hostility from white gangs in the surrounding streets.
"In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds – they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene".
After acquitting Mr. Robertson on Saturday night, jurors convicted two men who prosecutors say were leaders of the white gangs that ambushed Ms. Allen, of Aiken, S.C., and several family members in a predominantly white neighborhood.
These books were optional reading in the white gangs, but some of the black and Mexican gangs had curricula that you were expected to read, to educate yourself in the history of your race.
