the alley but, after thinking about it, decides against informing anyone about it in order to avoid an inevitable conflict. Meanwhile, the Bloods in the alley drive to a nearby basketball court and inform their fellow gang members about the "E-Rickets" (a disrespectful term for East Coast Crips) funeral nearby. Just as the gang members pile into a lowrider to drive off another car with two women pulls up. One of the women asks for "Poo Bear" and a Blood points to his friend, 17-year-old Darryl "Poo Bear" Young (Shannon Luckey), who is playing basketball on the court. The women in the car are Poo Bear's mother and sister who arrive to deliver a letter to Poo Bear from his younger brother Alton, who goes by the street name "Solo". Solo is doing time in The California Youth Authority for an unspecified crime. After asking Poo Bear for money, the women warn him to be careful because there have been a lot of murders recently. Poo Bear dismisses their warning as "Old jinxy shit" and returns to the basketball court. As the Crip funeral continues several carloads of Bloods pull up into the alley across the street from the church, blasting loud rap music to announce their presence, and file out of the cars and into the street. One of the Crips attending the funeral looks outside of a church window and sees the gang of Bloods and promptly notifies his friends who all begin going to the windows, despite the pastors' hollow assurance that there's nothing to worry about. Despite the pastor's plea for the young men not to go outside the Crips run out of the church and into the street to confront the Bloods who are disrespecting the funeral. After hurling taunts and insults at one another a Blood member throws a bottle of malt liquor at the Crips and a gang brawl erupts in the street which is broken up when the police arrive. While the brawl is taking place Poo Bear is at the basketball court reading the letter from Solo, who states that he hates Youth Authority and intends to return to school and leave gang-banging alone once he's released. After the brawl two members of the Bloods are riding in a car when they come across Poo Bear driving towards them in his lowrider. The Bloods inform Poo Bear and B-Fool, who is