The younger cats love the encouragement." If you love your community like you say, you need to help. I wish more folks would come aboard this train."Īt Flipside's funeral, Joubert urged, "Don't just show up when there's a service. We are going to have some tragedies down the road, but we have to push for peace. whom some consider the most respected man in Watts. "We cannot go back to where we were before," says Joubert, 53, a Triple O.G. Tingirides credits many, but two men from Nickerson Gardens, "Big Donny" Joubert and "Big Hank" Henderson, stand out. But by me acknowledging they were doing something right, it threw some responsibility on them."
I just said, 'Thanks again,' and walked away. I appreciate you not jumping back and wasting more lives.' One guy said, 'You're welcome. I walked by and said, 'I want to tell you, thank you. "There were some hard-core Bounty Hunters standing around," Tingirides recalls. Tingirides was walking through Nickerson. And in August, Damionye Terrelle Fredricks-Hubbard, 23, aka "Roscoe," was killed at Nickerson Gardens. From January 2002 to August 2011, 69 homicides hit Nickerson Gardens, Jordan Downs and Imperial Courts.īut then, for 22 amazing months, nobody was murdered in the three projects - and then, on June 23 this year, Floyd Videau was shot to death in Imperial Courts. I guess the only rule now, to each his own."Įven after violent crime plummeted in L.A., the projects were still a dangerous world. In 1996, Flipside's song "Check Yo Hood" warned, "And now the projects have turned into a war zone. Up until the early 2000s, the gang wars littered L.A. "The hoods were telling the Bounty Hunters, 'Point us in the right direction and we will take care of business.' But community leaders from Nickerson told them they didn't want that anymore." "Flip was connected to Death Row Records, to Athens Park, to other hoods," she says. "They don't need things to be dangerous like it was for previous generations." "It's a different time, a new generation," Cole said. Weekly's April 4 article "A Gay Leader Emerges in the 'Hood," explained, "People are coping, instead of going crazy. Brider's cousin Deshawn Cole, who was featured in L.A. The police do care."Ī few blocks away, the repast for Markice "Chiccen" Brider was held. "We're in a good relationship with the community, especially Nickerson and Imperial. The long applause was "the culmination of years of partnerships between the police, interventionists and the community," says her husband, LAPD Capt. "For the people of Watts to applaud about the LAPD making an arrest is such a huge transformation - that clearly shows what we have built with that community," LAPD Sgt. The overflowing congregation of 700 people stood and loudly cheered. "Outside this church right now is the LAPD officer who did what he was supposed to do that night - and caught the shooters." "Let the police do their job," Antwine said. He then urged the Bounty Hunters, L.A.'s most infamous Bloods, not to retaliate against Grape Street. from way back, Ronald "Kartoon" Antwine, 54, shared tender remembrances of Flipside.
The Los Angeles Police Department arrested three suspects for both shootings - Grape Street Crips from Jordan Downs project in Watts - but only one has been charged.įear of a return to the bloody Watts of decades past put everyone on red alert. Ten minutes after Flip White was killed, Markice "Chiccen" Brider, 29, was shot to death a few blocks east on 114th Street at Imperial Courts housing project. 23 in front of his childhood home, about 500 feet from the church. (Operation From The Bottom) who signed with Death Row Records in the 1990s. The gathering was, in a real sense, a state funeral for Nickerson Gardens: a somber, loving, sometimes humorous farewell to Kevin "Flipside" White, aka "Dirty Kev," a rapper with O.F.T.B. The hard hitters - Bounty Hunter Bloods from Nickerson Gardens housing project - were convened at Macedonia Baptist Church, not to wreak havoc but to hear the wiser, original gangsters, the "Triple O.G.s," exhort them to not "grab your Glocks" and "hunt down the killers" of a beloved homie. There probably were more ex-convicts with knockout punches gathered outside a Watts Baptist church at 114th Street and Graham Avenue recently than there were in all the gyms in Los Angeles that day.
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