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California Gang Investigator's Association CALIFORNIA GANG INVESTIGATOR’S ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 861143 Los Angeles, CA 90086 (888) 229-CGIA (2442) December 9th., 2005 The case against Stanley Tookie Williams My name is Wesley D. McBride. I am President of the California Gang Investigator’s Association; an association comprised of over 1,600 law enforcement professionals, concerned with the control and management of the street gang problem facing our country. I served nearly 36 years on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, 28 of those years in the Street Gang Unit. Stanley "Tookie" Williams sits on death row in a California prison for the unconscionable and premeditated act of murder of four innocent persons. Murders that cannot be explained away even under the most liberal interpretations of racial oppression, nor by putting a political spin on the crimes as if they were committed in the furtherance of some idealistic political terrorist movement. These murders were the result of common thuggery. Stanley Williams, in the company of fellow gang members, murdered these innocents to eliminate witnesses to his premeditated crime of armed robbery. Stanley "Tookie" Williams has in the past boasted of being one of the founding members of the original Crip gang in Los Angeles. While this gang was well established before Tookie came on the scene, he did bring a large group of gangsters with him when he joined the true founding father of the Crips, Raymond Washington. Tookie’s involvement helped solidify the Crip gang and spread it through the West side of Los Angeles. Soon the Crip gang began to have internal conflicts and splintered into over what is now over 200 individual Crip gangs. There is no one leader of any of the gangs. There are persons with that charisma to be a leader over the group at the time. Tookie was one of those shot caller types. These gangs became the centerpiece for the proliferation of gangs across the greater Los Angeles area, and that eventually spread across America like some virulent plague costing thousands of lives and countless crippling injuries in the process. Other gangs rose in opposition to his gang’s domination of the battlefield, a battlefield that the gangs purposefully made of the afflicted communities. These gang conflicts thus created a collective rise in criminality that this country has never experienced before. However, we must not lose sight that Mr. Williams is not being condemned for his infamous role in the creation of the Crip gang or the moral decay and destructive force that his legacy of gangsterism has spawned. He is condemned for the murders of four innocent persons. Persons he murdered simply to demonstrate to his crime partners how not to leave witnesses. As to the allegations that his trial was fraught with errors is also a figment of his handler’s imagination. Numerous courts, even the most liberal appellant court in the land, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that over turns every capital case it can could not find error in the case. The cry that it was based on jailhouse informants is false. Only one of many was a jailhouse informant. Some were just close friends that he told of the murders, actually making fun of the dying victims, mimicking their death throes. Their cries that there was no physical evidence was an out an out lie. Factually, the investigators found him in possession of a shotgun, registered to him, with similar shotgun shells that were found at each murder scene. Shells that were proven to be ejected out of this same shotgun. Tookie was also foiled in an escape attempt while awaiting trial. He had written out a plan that called for the violent takeover of the bus transporting him to court. His plan called for the murder of the two deputies on the bus, and the murder of one of his crime partners that was testifying against him. Luckily, the so-called jailhouse informant told authorities of the plan and it was quashed. Does this sound like the plans of an innocent man? It is for good reason that Mr. Williams sits on Death Row. Tookie’s personification and reputation as a ruthless gang member has become an icon for the generations of young delinquents, helping to recruit them into the gangs. His specific action of aiding in the creation of the Crip gang has brought about much death, desolation, and disservice to the entire African-American community. His creation has destroyed communities just as surely as the gangs’ bullets have killed countless humans. To now present himself as a rehabilitated murderer that does not deserve his just punishment awarded him by a competent legal authority, a sentence that has been upheld at each level of the many appeals processes that his attorneys have instituted on his behalf, because he authored a few simplistic books on gang prevention is ludicrous. There is serious speculation if Mr. Williams actually wrote the books or they were the product of a ghostwriter utilizing his name and ideas. No credence should be given to the theatrical and orchestrated Nobel prize nominations, which were simply a ploy by those opposed to capital punishment who were using his case for their political agenda. His nomination was seen for what it was by the Nobel committee and never given serious consideration. Someone must speak out for the victims of these atrocities. Do not let their surviving families suffer the further indignity by diminishing their murdered loved ones memories or the worthiness of their lives while on this earth. Mr. Williams has never agreed to be debriefed on the gang by authorities, which he feels is tantamount to becoming a “snitch” in gang parlance. This view casts serious doubt on his so called redemption and his disavowal of the gang lifestyle. It would seem that his gang mentality is still functioning and part of his persona. The California Gang Investigators Association strongly opposes clemency for Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Our association respectfully requests that you deny Stanley Williams’ request for clemency. Wesley D. McBride President California Gang Investigators Association .
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