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Apr 23, 2018 · Federal prosecutors are piecing together a rare death penalty prosecution against members of the Seven Mile Bloods, a notorious east-side Detroit gang blamed for terrorizing neighbors, fueling...
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In the latest violence involving a Detroit rapper,...
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The inside story of Detroit’s gang wars, a battle...
- Rapper Phillip Peaks
Oct 12, 2021 · The inside story of Detroit’s gang wars, a battle prosecutors say was fueled by Instagram hit lists and the Seven Mile Bloods, the social-media savvy gang that had a death grip on both...
Apr 23, 2018 · Back in Detroit, the Seven Mile Bloods battled with gangs spread across the east side, including the Hustle Boys, Gutta Boys and 6 Mile Chedda Grove.
Apr 30, 1990 · Cocaine sales fueled the evolution of Detroit’s gangs. They began as what Taylor calls “scavengers,” youths preying on the most vulnerable residents of their neighborhoods.
Security/ Urban Violence. Gang Violence in Detroit
During the Prohibition era, a gang of Detroit Mafiosi known as the River Gang smuggled Canadian beer and liquor into the United States from Ontario and controlled most of the bootlegging market in Southeast Michigan. [10] The Detroit Mafia also formed close links with Toledo, a major hub for bootlegged whiskey. [11]
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Sep 1, 2018 · Immediately after the Detroit violence of July 1967, President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission and ordered it to determine what had happened, why, and what could be done to prevent urban riots. This analysis focuses on racial change in metropolitan Detroit.
