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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How Ron Stallworth fought LA Crips, Bloods in Utah’s Mormon country

    A decade after the events of “Black Klansman ,” undercover police detective Ron Stallworth relocated to Utah to infiltrate the same Bloods and Crips who waged gang warfare in LA and now expanded into the rich, mostly white Mormon church.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 29, 2024 • 1 min read

    A decade after the events of “Black Klansman,” undercover police detective Ron Stallworth relocated to Utah to infiltrate the same Bloods and Crips who waged gang warfare in LA and now expanded into the rich, mostly white Mormon church.

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    Contenders for Trump’s second Cabinet, crypto donors as political players
    1. 0:00Who might be in Trump’s second Cabinet? Susie Wiles, Kash Patel
    2. 11:02Pro-crypto donors are pouring big money into 2024 elections
    3. 26:30How Ron Stallworth fought LA Crips, Bloods in Utah’s Mormon countryYou’re reading this
    4. 41:39Previously unknown Chopin waltz discovered in museum archive
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    3 of 4
    Contenders for Trump’s second Cabinet, crypto donors as political players
    1. 0:00Who might be in Trump’s second Cabinet? Susie Wiles, Kash Patel
    2. 11:02Pro-crypto donors are pouring big money into 2024 elections
    3. 26:30How Ron Stallworth fought LA Crips, Bloods in Utah’s Mormon countryYou’re reading this
    4. 41:39Previously unknown Chopin waltz discovered in museum archive
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