Tree Top Piru graffiti in Compton, CA The Westside Tree Top Pirus [TTP]are a predominately African-American street gang located on the westside of Compton. This gang formed on the 400 block of Spruce between Arnabe and Oleander.
The Westside Tree Top Pirus [TTP]are a predominately African-American street gang located on the westside of Compton. This gang formed on the 400 block of Spruce between Arnabe and Oleander.
Original formation of the Pirus Street Gang. In Compton, Raymond Washington and his Crip affiliates approached the Piru Street Family in 1969 and the gang later changed their name to the Piru Street Crips.
The Pirus, also known as Piru Street Family and Piru Gangsters (PG), are a Los Angeles street gang alliance based in Compton, and also present in the cities of Carson, Sacramento, Hawthorne, San Diego, Fresno, Santa Barbara and Watts.
Where is Piru Street?
The term originally refers to Piru Street, a residential street in Compton and neighboring Willowbrook; it has been adapted as a backronym for Powerful Indestructible Revengeful United , or alternatively Political Inner-city Revolutionary Union.
The Pirus, also known as Piru Street Family, West Side Piru, East Side Piru Relatives and Piru Gangsters ( PG ), are an African American street gang alliance based in Southern California.
Pirus use the colors red or burgundy to signify affiliation. The Pirus comprise various sub-groups known as “sets” between which significant differences exist such as colors, clothing, operations, and political ideas which may be in open conflict with each other.
In 1969 the Crip alliance made by smaller gangs, the Pirus also joined, making a large “set” of the Crips. At that time, there were various sets throughout the region of Los Angeles, California. However, these sets were small groups of hustlers.
In 1969, fifteen-year-old Raymond Washington started the Crips street gang with friends from his neighborhood on the East Side of South Central Los Angeles. The Crips began to attack hustler groups and cliques in order to create a larger organization.
A subset, Murdaland Mafia Pirus, was created in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2018, Dontray Johnson was convicted of murder for shooting and killing two fellow members in November 2012 for violating rules of the gang. Johnson had posted on his Facebook profile, “198 n risen” referring to Baltimore’s homicide toll of that year.
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