i haven t actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because they re from across town and all that. i haven t done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones i m going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. what do you want for your future? money, power, respect. top of the food chain. everybody s like that when they re young. they don t see the big picture. they can t see it yet. you know what i mean? it s just whatever happens happens. having been in and out of state prisons in california, fisher sought to share his wisdom with the younger thompson. i ve got him out of situations in here, he was just reacting to [ bleep ]. i m telling him you can t always just react. slow down. think about something real quick. he thanks me later on, like
yeah. i m glad i didn t do that. he keeps me cool. i m real hot headed. quick snap on somebody. real quick. no problem, don t worry about nothing. he keep me out of it, cool. despite the fact there was sort of a mentor relationship, you could see that cousin ice couldn t totally impart all that he had learned in his careers on to duker. new generation. check all you old folks out. fisher told us that gang-banging has changed since he was thompson s age. we just wanted to protect our side of town. you know what i mean? i mean, none of us owned nothing over there. but we called it our side of town. when i was 18 there wasn t you heard about somebody getting shot maybe once every three months. now, it s every day somebody s getting shot. dinell thompson can attest to that. he s been shot eight times. i ain t scared of death, though. death s scared of me.
for you it s not a negative for him to spend a lot of time in prison, for your son? it s not a negative for you? nah. in another context, in another environment, it might be a parent saying to their child, if you don t end up being a doctor i ll still love you. with duker it was, like, if his son didn t end up being a crip, he would still love him. my children. i was born into it, you know what i mean? you re going to end up in prison or in a casket. you know what i mean? coming up i m part of a pretty intimidating group. when we re on the yard, we re 20, 30 deep. pretty big white boys. nobody really challenges that. a gang leader with a twist. i was expecting this mean,
quick snap on somebody. real quick. no problem, don t worry about nothing. he keep me out of it, cool. despite the fact there was sort of a mentor relationship, you could see that cousin ice couldn t totally impart all that he had learned in his careers on to duker. new generation. check all you old folks out. fisher told us that gang-banging has changed since he was thompson s age. we just wanted to protect our side of town. you know what i mean? i mean, none of us owned nothing over there. but we called it our side of town. when i was 18 there wasn t you heard about somebody getting shot maybe once every three months. now, it s every day somebody s getting shot. dinell thompson can attest to that. he s been shot eight times. i ain t scared of death, though. death s scared of me. prosecutors allege thompson has been on the other side of the gun plenty of times. besides the murder convictions he s currently appealing, thompson was charged with three additional drive-b
another environment, it might be a parent saying to their child, if you don t end up being a doctor i ll still love you. with duker it was, like, if his son didn t end up being a crip, he would still love him. my children. i was born into it, you know what i mean? you re going to end up in prison or in a casket. you know what i mean? coming up i m part of a pretty intimidating group. when we re on the yard, we re 20, 30 deep. pretty big white boys. nobody really challenges that. a gang leader with a twist. i was expecting this mean, tough hardcore guy. and instead, it was this tommy that we came to know. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp.