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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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    Ron Stallworth

    author of “The Gangs of Zion: A Black Cop’s Crusade in Mormon Country”

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