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TIL on April 29th, 1992, leaders of L.A.‘s two most notorious gangs, the Bloods and Crips, brokered a peace agreement in response to the acquittal of 4 LAPD officers in the vicious beating of unarmed motorist Rodney King. This agreement was facilitated by football hall of famer Jim Brown.

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