Quote:Just a cursory look at this allegation that James Sample is showing an affiliation with the bloods-

 

(1) James Sample's high school is in a mostly hispanic neighborhood, not black.  Bloods are almost always black people and they almost never exist outside majority black neighborhoods.

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That's not truly accurate.   Using LA County as an example, people tend to think of the crips of LA as 1 gang, when in reality there are over 75 different versions of the Crips that are independently associated by their neighborhood.  https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid...o&hl=en_US

 

Shifting gears to Sacramento, being a Crip could be as simple as hanging out with 9 dudes from your street and naming your gang the 18th Street Crips.  These days a lot of people just like being affiliated with a gang simple to act cool (without engaging in any real gang activity other than picking up chicks and intimidating others).  That said, I'm certain there are a lot of athletes that have once been associated with a gang in their earlier days.

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