Well, well, well, loosen the bounds it goes around ! -'We’re Having Gang Wars All Over Again'

Maxwell Strachan | A partnership between KARK/Fox16 and HuffPost
HuffPostSeptember 14, 2017

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas ― Brian Silva, an unemployed African-American man from one of Little Rock’s roughest neighborhoods, still struggles on a daily basis not to go back to the life of crime he knows so well.

Almost since birth, Silva has lived within the world of gangs. He has been involved in shootouts and sold drugs, shot three times and incarcerated just as many ― the first time after receiving a four-year sentence for illegal firearm possession and the manufacture, delivery and possession of a controlled substance; the other two for violating parole. Even so, it’s hard not to feel tempted by the benefits of the drug trade.


“It’s a fight every day,” Silva said, pausing to find the words to best describe his daily dilemma. “What you’re making in two weeks, I can go out and make this in two days.”

Silva, 30, came of age in Little Rock at the tail end of one of the city’s most violent eras.    https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-having-gang-wars-over-094503495.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-having-gang-wars-over-094503495.html