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On February 23, 2018, my book on the Mau Maus and Sand Street Angels, who were two Brooklyn youth gangs from the 1950s, has been completed.\u00a0 It took 15 years of research and writing to complete Brooklyn Rumble: Mau Maus, Sand Street Angels, and the End of an Era.\u00a0 <\/em>This book is roughly 6\u2033x9\u2033 and has 370 pages and includes a look at the characters in the Mau Maus and the details of a gang killing that happened in February 1959 in front of the iconic Brooklyn Paramount Theater (now Long Island University).\u00a0 If you want to buy a copy, click here and this link will take you to an online ordering page<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Does Judge Gerald Culkin sound irritated?\u00a0 Read the sentencing minutes of Alberto Torres below.\u00a0 Torres was a member of the notorious Viceroys from East Harlem and in this case he was arrested on December 11, 1956 with George Rivera, another Viceroy, for possession of a loaded .22 hand gun along with a cartridge stored in his wallet.<\/p>\n