Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Streets and Scholars podcast with Alex Alonso & F.G. Streets and Scholars is a one of a kind podcast hosted by an ex-con who had been sentenced to over 15 years in prison in both the California Department of Corrections and the Federal BOP. He hails from Lynwood / Compton and represented the Cross Atlantic Piru gang, but now he is family man, husband, father and a podcast co-host. He is matched up with a co-host that grew up in the mean streets of Los Angeles, but managed to avoid prison, went on to graduate from the University of Southern California and became a professor. Welcome Frank ”FG” Thornton & Alex Alonso’s podcast, STREETS & SCHOLARS, where they discuss current street issues, provide hip-hop commentary, cover the latest criminal justice topics, and discuss how race and place impact our everyday experience. Tap in! Official Website: https://www.streetgangs.com/podcasting/streets-and-scholars-podcast/ Shoplifter gunned down, YNW Melly trial and Ja Morant got the gang talking (EP64) - Streets and Scholars

Episode 64

Shoplifter gunned down, YNW Melly trial and Ja Morant got the gang talking (EP64)

In this episode 64 of Streets and Scholars with Frank "FG" Thornton and Alex Alonso they discuss: 

*Former Deputy, Victor Hill, from Clayton County Georgia turned himself into the federal prison to serve his 18 month sentence for abusing inmates. 

*YNW Melly trial is in the jury selection phase, testimony is expected to start in early June on his double murder case. 

Overview of the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXTkKT1cDhY

*NBA player Ja Morant, seen on social media holding a gun in Memphis, TN, for the second time, where it is legal to carry. Morant was suspended for eight games during the 2022-23 season for flashing a gun at a Denver nightclub. Bricc Baby from Rollin 60s Crips has some serious words for Morant, and Keyshawn Johnson warns him that acting like a gang member is creating problems.

*** Security guard kills shop lifter in San Francisco, Michael Earlwayne Anthony, the security guard, will not be charged in the homicide of Banko Brown after they got into a fight while Brown, a transgender, was shoplifting. 

 

* FIND us on INSTAGRAM

* Streets & Scholars: http://www.instagram.com/streets.and.scholars 

* Alex Alonso: http://www.instagram.com/alexalonso101 

* FG: https://www.instagram.com/fgeneral1/

FIND us on Youtube:

* Street TV: http://www.youtube.com/streetgangs

* Street TV Flix: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwof1NALLNj3owdHJTM4YVw

* FG Unleashed: https://www.youtube.com/c/FGUNLEASHED

* Alex Alonso: https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexAlonso101

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* StreetGangs website: http://www.streetgangs.com

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Alex Alonso is the owner and curator of LAnd Media, a podcasting network that brings dope content directly from the raw streets to your ears, facilitated through amazing conversations and interviews on street politics, gang culture, prison life, music and hip-hop, criminal justice issues and whatever else our dope hosts want to spit.