Johnny Chang

He fought a lot.

yeah yeah how many is it chinese gangs or was that a mixture with la gangs but how how many gangs because you says it's 50 50 yeah then so how mixed was it it was pretty mixed uh we had a lot of different gangs we had chinese gangs with vietnamese gangs in general we had a lot of different asian gangs and then we had predominantly hispanic they they dominated they've been there since

Some of them since the 30s and 40s in that area.

So, you know, we just started pushing in there, I would say, mid to late 80s.

And then in my era, you know, it was about late 90s, early 2000s.

At that time, there was already some gangs that had been established like my gang.

when did you start getting into trouble uh at the age of 10 I started getting into trouble I was fighting and stuff um you know I did stuff like when I was seven eight years old stealing here and there nothing too violent the violence started coming around 10 11 12 years old I was extremely violent you know I had like you know I already stabbed somebody I'd beat somebody up I mean I've done a lot of stuff and at 12 um you know I was already kind of like shooting at people

How many members were in this gang?

A lot.

At that time, we had different... So it's an umbrella, and then there's different cliques, as we call them, or different sides.

So easily, easily, in that time, like...

Anywhere from 800 to 1,000 members, for sure.

Who was the top boy?

The top guy?

Yeah.

There was different factions with different what we call heads.

So yeah, there was a lot of people.

It's usually named by their, so the sides are named by the heads.

So I'm from Oceanside.

So there's like Ocean, you know, a guy named Ocean.