Homeboy Industries

After the Rodney King verdict, Los Angeles exploded. The LA Times wanted to know why that was. And I said, well, because we had 60 strategically hired gang members who were enemies and so they had a reason not to get up in the morning and not to gangbang the night before. Ray Stark, who was a, you know, movie producer who happened to have $500 million,. Some and me after he read an article and he said, how should I help? How should I use my money? Was what he said. And I told him there's an abandoned bakery across the street from our school. You could buy it. We could put hair nets on rival gang members,

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