During the week of the UK riots, the images in the news brought me right back to where I started. I watched mobs of masked and hooded arsonists in London and other English cities doing exactly what we did during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Just like London’s riots, gang culture was how we spread from city to city, and I know because I was there.
Indeed, during the same week as the London riots, my book Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain, recounting how I went from a gang member to a serial entrepreneur, was published.
I was a 14-year-old gang member when the LA riots kicked off and it would take a couple of stints in Juvenile Hall for my bad decisions before I turned my life around.
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