Sanyika Shakur on the run?

[rebelAfrika]

Arrest Warrant Issued For Author Kody 'Monster' Scott
By Roman Wolfe
Date: 2/16/2007 2:25 pm

An arrest warrant was issued for Kody "Monster" Scott, landing the best-selling author on The Los Angeles Police Department's new list of 'Top 10 Most Wanted Gang Members,' for an alleged car jacking.

Scott, also known as Sanyika Shakur, authored the autobiography Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member from prison, which detailed his life growing up in Los Angeles as an Eight-Tray Crips gang member

According to The Los Angeles Times, an arrest warrant was issued on Dec. 15, after Scott allegedly struck an associate in the face and took his car.

Another warrant was issued Feb. 1, claiming that Scott failed to appear in court when subpoenaed as a material witness in a homicide case.

"He was just too involved in the culture of gangs; he couldn't get away," Sgt. Manny Santoyo told The Los Angeles Times. "He chose that life."

Some speculated that Scott's inclusion on the list with murderers was pay back by Police Chief William J. Bratton.

The Times reported that Scott was the subject of an alert issued by the LAPD over a year ago, because he had publicly threatened Chief Bratton.

The warrants come during a crackdown on gangs announced by Chief Bratton and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

According to police, Los Angeles has seen a 14 percent increase in gang crime and a 160 percent hike in the San Fernando Valley.

Last week, the mayor and the police chief released a list, which named the city's 11 worst gangs. Those gangs are now the target of investigations.

"Los Angeles county and city is, unfortunately, the gang capital of America," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.

According to his autobiography, Scott started gang banging at the age of 11, when he was inducted into the Crips.

Scott served seven years in prison assaulting a crack dealer. When he was released, he turned his life around, converted to Islam and renounced violence.


Sgt. Santoyo said that Scott's whereabouts are unknown.

[nattyreb]

What?! OMG, not again!!!

Here's some info for those who don't know his extraordinary history, more is available by searching: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/acg7/author.htm

[rebelAfrika]

Originally Posted by nattyreb

What?! OMG, not again!!!

Here's some info for those who don't know his extraordinary history, more is available by searching: http://www.georgetown.edu/users/acg7/author.htm

Out of curiosity...have you had a chance to read his book? The only reason I'm asking is because my big "relative" (Bloods do not refer to their cousins as "cousin" because of the crips utilizing the term "cuzz") is from East Side Miller Gangsta Bloods and there is a part in the book when Sanyika Shakur (known as "Monster" at that time) was in the day room in lock up and he said "cuzz" too loud and (paraphrasing) one of the biggest, blackest, ugliest bruthas he ever saw (with cornrows in his head that was so tight they looked stitched in) who also happened to be a Blood from Miller Gangstas turned around and looked at him...and then stood up and was like "what'd you say, BLOOD?" and him and a bunch of other Bloods from various sets started to head his way, LMAO!!! I forgot how it turned out, but I always remember that part of the book because of my "relative" being from tha Millaz, LOL!!! Also...I know the brutha Muhammad Abdullah who taught Sanyika Shakur about Islam. He aint no joke. I'm cool with his son.

[nattyreb]

No, Bro., i think i'm gonna try to do that this go-round tho, cuz the last time we struggled around this Brotha's case all that got talked about was "Monster" (there was movie talk around that book at the time). Asante sana for the info!

Originally Posted by rebelAfrika*AAPRP

Out of curiosity...have you had a chance to read his book? The only reason I'm asking is because my big "relative" (Bloods do not refer to their cousins as "cousin" because of the crips utilizing the term "cuzz") is from East Side Miller Gangsta Bloods and there is a part in the book when Sanyika Shakur (known as "Monster" at that time) was in the day room in lock up and he said "cuzz" too loud and (paraphrasing) one of the biggest, blackest, ugliest bruthas he ever saw (with cornrows in his head that was so tight they looked stitched in) who also happened to be a Blood from Miller Gangstas turned around and looked at him...and then stood up and was like "what'd you say, BLOOD?" and him and a bunch of other Bloods from various sets started to head his way, LMAO!!! I forgot how it turned out, but I always remember that part of the book because of my "relative" being from tha Millaz, LOL!!! Also...I know the brutha Muhammad Abdullah who converted him to Islam. He aint no joke.

[rebelAfrika]

Originally Posted by nattyreb

No, Bro., i think i'm gonna try to do that this go-round tho, cuz the last time we struggled around this Brotha's case all that got talked about was "Monster" (there was movie talk around that book at the time). Asante sana for the info!

All they talked about was the book? Well...what I find most interesting about him is that after he began to transform ideologically...his message was not simply a "kids stay away from gangs" message...but he also brought a MILITANT ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT message as well.

[Moorish Rebel]

I know about Bro Sanyika (Monster Kody). I read his autobiography when I was really young. Some of my family members who are crips use to talk about how much work he put in. Despite the life he lead, he changed his life around. Not on some upright-citizen shit, but into a militant, a muslim...and this is why the pigs really want him.

[nattyreb]

Right, Bro., but the talkers i was referring to (i should have phrased it better) was mostly what was coming out of mainstream media, still portraying him as a gangbanger for the most part, and an author (which they *really* hate, this also happens w/Mumia). Of course they despise intelligent Black men, men getting a hint of royalties in prison, and men with even a rumor of getting movie money. If they focused on his transformation, it was usually so twisted around he sounded like a gangbanging-crazed panther-terrorist. In other words, business as usual. WE absolutely were calling it what it was, just another attempt to encage a militant Black leader. It really, really hurts to see this Bro. on the run again, they will NEVER leave him the hell alone.

Originally Posted by rebelAfrika*AAPRP

All they talked about was the book? Well...what I find most interesting about him is that after he began to transform ideologically...his message was not simply a "kids stay away from gangs" message...but he also brought a MILITANT ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT message as well.

[P.S.,etc.]

Ironically I just got finished reading this autobiography like a week ago. This is sad. Puts the war into perspctive.