Information about the origins of the Robson family, despite being infamous as they currently are, are almost completely unknown. Everyone, who either looks up or down to the band of brothers, only see them as a couple of trigger-happy madmen whose only motivation is to see the red pouring out of their innocent or not so innocent victims. But as for their backstory, there is more to it than you may begin to think.
The Robson brothers were like any other set of brothers you would find throughout Mexico, however the Robson family were one of the biggest family for miles mostly consisting of brothers without any sisters at all. The source of their gang activity nowadays can be traced back to the days when they would simply pretend to be gangsters
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So after many meetings and decision making the brothers agreed on moving to America and start a new life there and try and live the American Dream. Upon arriving their dream had already been half fulfilled. Strangely enough in Los Santos, a lot of people were wanting drugs and weapons and with all of the brother’s skills combined there were able to make a lot of money in a short time span. With this money they were able to afford food, shelter, and vehicles to help improve their mobility and business. Once the brothers managed to settle in they hadn’t noticed that the reason there was a high demand for drugs and weapons was that Los Santos was just a big playground for all of the rival gangs that operated there to kill just kill each other. The brothers decided to join a gang and try and become somebodies in the city but after some time had passed the brothers were becoming sick of taking orders from other people and wanted to try and rise to the top themselves. After all, they have the guns and the drugs to fund the family if they chose to make one and many of the brothers were good shooters who practised on a daily basis on non-living and living targets alike. So when the opportunity arose, they left the family they were currently part of and then as a group began taking over and contesting territory …show more content…
Theo Robson, who is in the middle of the age group and leader 18th Avenue Homeboys, is the person who rose from no one to someone and always enjoys putting a bullet in a body, sometimes for no good reason. Theo, despite being something of a madman with a gun from time to time, is someone who likes to take responsibility for his other brothers and making sure they don’t step out of line and get themselves arrested or killed. James Robson is someone who rides on the side-lines of all of the violence, mostly because he isn’t as great as a shot as the other brothers but is the best at gathering valuable resources such as materials for crafting firearms and transporting drugs from client to the family safe house quickly and without stirring up any trouble. James is also the one with the most medical expertise and is responsible for any injuries or health issues the other brothers have. Mikey Robson , one of the older brothers and is someone who enjoys any kind of mischief that involves pain and suffering for other human beings. Mikey is probably one of the only brothers who feels no sympathy or remorse for the people he injures or ultimately causes death to. Dee Robson, the oldest brother and most loyal of them all and always appears when he is most needed. Despite being the oldest however, he didn’t want to take on the responsibility
Alex Sanchez’s interview with Steven Osuna entitled They’re Not Solving the Problem, They’re Displacing It, expresses the struggles, misconceptions, and everyday life of a Latino immigrant in the United States’ transition to a MS13 gang members in El Salvador. Alex Sanchez, former MS13 member, is a peacemakers and co-founder/ executive director of Homies Unidos in Los Angelos. This organization’s mission is to bring peace to the youth of Central America who are immigrants, involved in gangs, and criminalized. Sanchez reveals how his personal experiences as an immigrant and MS13 gang member has contributed to his present line of work. Further, Sanchez discusses issues such as being targeted by the INS and LAPD, death squads, and anti-gang initiatives
The Bielski Brothers is written by Peter Duffy. It is a biography about three men and was published in 2004. Three brothers from the Bielski family lead Jews in the forests of the Soviet Union during World War II. They rescued and protected Jews from the ferocious Nazis; they were able to fight off Nazis and build a village in the middle of a forest. Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski are responsible for over 1,200 Jewish lives.
Infamous Duo In the middle of the Great Depression, a villanus group arose making citizens tremble. They were the leaders of the Barrow Gang known as Bonnie and Clyde. They are well known throughout the United States and even to this day they are remembered as lovers in crime.
It was now all about gunplay. As one gang member put it, “it’s kill or be killed.” The Crips and the Bloods became involved in all facets of criminal enterprise including murder, drug trafficking, robbery, and extortion. Gang violence has killed and maimed
He started to get into trouble as a young boy when he started hanging out with the wrong crowds. As a young kid he went by the name “Johnnie”. He started getting into trouble by doing pranks on people in his neighborhood, and local corner stores around. He then started to get into petty theft stealing candy bars, gum and other food items. He then got into a street gang called “the Dirty Dozen”.
Him and his gang would do all sorts of Relates to the prompt because: he joined the gang so he didn’t feel lonely. By him joining the gang, his future was destroyed. An example about when my cousin lived in Colombia, she grew up in the middle/poor class. Many of the women there were prostitutes. They were very beautiful, had money, didn’t need an education.
Two men who grew up in the same neighborhood, but the choices and the accountability they made comes as outcome in their lives diverge in to two opposite directions. The author of the book, Wes, who is one of the key characters in the book, had arduous childhood and overcame most of the obstacles in his life because of his mother’s support. When Moore was three, he witnessed his father’s death. After his father’s passing, his mother become stand guard. “Baltimore was getting more and more dangerous; there had been a rash of break-ins in the houses around them” (Moore36).
Even seemingly barbaric gangs search for order in society and provide security and comfort for the impoverished. People are naturally inclined to help others and act socially, especially
The two brothers watch as their dad struggled to provide for them. It left both of them with something to think about as they grew older. As Sonny and the narrator become adults they begin to realize how much poverty still affects the citizens of Harlem. The narrator says, “but houses exactly like the houses of our past yet dominated the landscape, boys exactly like the boys we once had been found themselves smothering in the houses, came down for light and air and found themselves encircled by disaster” (Baldwin). As the narrator and his brother
After hearing that his younger brother, Sonny, has been put in jail due to drug use, he remembers his childhood, and how they both never did really get along. Both Sonny and the narrator feel a sense of “darkness outside”, and this “darkness” is what creates the miscommunication between the brothers (Baldwin 338). Sonny changed his normality due to not being noticed during his childhood, and the drastic change causes the older brother to feel uncomfortable seeing his brother, because Sonny told him that “he was dead as far as [he] was concerned” (351). Their struggles caused them to lose contact, and to slowly build that invisible barrier between their
Scott Monks introduces the reader to his book about boys and gangs, growing up in an area where it is a norm to be in a gang and leadership in a gang. Introducton: The story of the book, Boyz “r “us deals with Mitchel, (Mitch) and gangs in the 1990’s in Marrickville, an inner suburb of Sydney. The toughness of boys growing up in extreme circumstances, poverty, one parent families, dysfunctional families. Juvenile delinquencies of boys and siblings, assaults and wilful damage.
Even though his brother was too deep into drug and gang culture to escape, “[he] wanted Wes to be nothing like him” (72). Yet, Wes was consumed by the, “… same game that had consumed [his brother] and put a bullet or two in him,” and had never known anything in his family outside of drugs and gang violence, so drugs and gangs were the only expectation Wes had, the only place he saw himself fitting into (58). Ultimately, the expectations of those
It can be seen that the boys comply with a higher power and become
It became the life for Blake. The narrator describes how “I saw that Blake’s romance with the street life and the hustler image had flowed dangerously” (Staples,2). The gangster life is anything, but safe. These people live a very dangerous life of violent acts. They commit murders and sell drugs.
Anecdote Suddenly one Friday night, Javier started seeing a bunch of gangsters arriving to the party in which they were at too. They were entering one after another, and began fighting randomly as they walked in. One of the gangsters that had arrived was holding up a gun to Javier and Javier’s cousin panicked that he would be killed. So, Javier’s older cousin runs to the back of his car and takes out a gun and passes it to his friend, he grabbed it and killed the ruthless guy that was going to kill Javier.