New Zealand Couple React to Army Rangers SMOKED Some Crips in 1989... (DO NOT MESS WITH RANGERS!) 

When the Rangers turn out the lights, It is not a switch, it is your life. God Bless My big brothers in green..... HOOAH !!!!

LOL. Absolutely! Turning off the lights is a CLEVER tactical thing when its dark out!

​@@joshgellis3292yep we put on the night vision goggles and move

The crips was lucky there was no snipers BOOOM 1 shot 1 kill.

They're saying "We own the night."

Get rid of gang mentality indeed. It's odd, but there will always be some crazies who will attempt something like this. Related to gangs or not, there will always be someone doing something so insanely stupid you wonder how they managed to live this long Edit: A friend of mine wants to be a Navy Pilot because he's impatient. his exact words were "You get the most kills if you are impatient. Those who wait patiently die on the runway." Needless to say, he watched Top Gun and told himself he wanted to be like Tom Cruise

Just to state the counter argument here, but how do you tell the difference between people getting rid of the gangs like this, and the gangs themselves? There are reasons who LEOs hate vigilantes.

@@TheDurid1the difference is stark. One group is selling illegal drugs, committing crimes and being the aggressor, the other group responded in self defense to protect their community. Very different motives and behavior.

when leo's fail at their job then you get vigilantes @@TheDurid1

yeah the darker folks will rob you of your life before that happens

Wow

I mentioned above we lived in North Bend, not that far away, but I didn't know anything about it until we went to visit my parents up on the Washington Peninsula. I thought my dad was teasing me at first, then I think he showed me an article about it.

The Rangers shot bullets like people shoot water from a hose to shoo a dog down the street. They INTENDED NOT to kill anyone. The people in The neighborhood had been calling The Police for a month. For political Reasons The Police were ignoring the calls. This caused The Staff Sergeant to deal with it himself, with a little bit of help from his friends. Tacoma Washington is a place you have to live in to understand.

He's right he invited his buddy's over for a barbecue and to bring there weapons the gang came at night they were waiting on them

Now Seattle is doing the same non policing routine. This will happen again. Leftist is a mental illness

Do people visit him and get some laughs hearing his account

Please tell your Dad & his friends we have mad respect for them, & thank them for their service.

@@ironear7748 he just turned 64 and remembers what happened. i showed him the original vid and he was like that is not what happened.

Bet he's glad to go bye-bye 😅

i was with ya till you said he got 20 years for stealing toys.. press X to doubt

@@ripvanwinkle2002did u really not read the charges?? 😂. The first is felony child abuse, very disgusting crime and heavily punished if the justice system does it job

@@steventaylor6881 what he described wasnt a 20 year sentence.. tying her up in a basement and torturing her wouldnt get 20 years in the USA sadly..

What’s his name so we can try him for treason. American military operating on American soil to kill Americans. Tell your brother he’s the reason we’ve lost every war since 1812

obviously not, these men made their neighborhood a target for gunfire and of all the rounds they shot they didnt shoot any of the gang members. that is so irresponsible

@@cBodhi lol couldnt have said it better, rangers vs civilian/gangmembers with no training and handguns and bb guns

@@cBodhi I can see you are the kind of person who would run some dump like San Francisco or Detroit.

@@cBodhi i live in Minneapolis, when youre aiming towards the ground from an elavated position, the bullets hit the ground..... black gangs are horrid around here. I shot one after he stole my dads car many years ago, blew off the side of his head lol

​@@cBodhihow do you prove what you just stated?No answer will be accepted as you are f of s ,and you did not listen ..or think.

damn thats crazy, i dont think ive ever come across somebody whos served under the manchu banner outside of my great uncle

you would have known my father and uncle they were both involved in defense of the house and they served in panama.

One thing Rangers are very good at is killing. Those Rangers could have killed every one of them but that would have stirred up a shit storm they didn't want or need. They did their job and sent a clear message.

I was a Man of War … 1/33 Armor … at Fort Lewis, at the same time. Hail brother

I was 1/9. KUTF!!!

In a 2022 interview with Sgt. Foulk, he stated, “when a gang member got shot, they didn’t lay around waiting for EMS. Their gang buddies took them away. Wherever, whatever they did with them.” The police obviously didn’t want to publicize the thugs getting shot because they didn’t want vigilantism to arise.

They wouldnt be charged with murder. Its self defense at that point.

That's a unfair fight

You could use a Grammer lesson yourself, salad boy.

Yeah I definitely agree no trained soldiers will miss that badly, it was More a show of yes I’m here and here to stay oh and btw I will protect myself family and property.

thats what the 2A is for

I’m sure if they wanted to they would have tbh.

My guess is it was 1 of 2 things or maybe a combo of both. 1) They were careful about intentionally causing a mortal wound (for obvious legal reasons) or 2) They were concerned about potential collateral damage so they were careful with their line of fire so as to not hit innocent people. Thats just my thought as an Army vet myself.

@@darksydedigital that was my understanding, they just wanted the gang to go away and hopefully go to prison. They weren't out to kill them unless it was necessary.

@@robertthomas583 Which that makes sense too.

it was 1989 and the Rangers didn't have NVGs. If they did not a single crip would have walked away

Do you have more info about it or video?

If I remember correctly the TV show, The Shield, did something similar that was inspired by this.

​@spcmegreg ya but that show sucks. 😂

the story basically just says "no reported deaths" but less eloquently and way more words

oh it was a lot worse than reported by the police and media. my father and uncle were there.

Exactly, I grew up in Buffalo, NY. In the early 1980’s I personally witnessed a major gang battle on the Westside of the city (in the Niagara Street area) between a Black gang and a Puerto Rican gang. It lasted a few hours. The police just surrounded the area and let them fight it out. There were quite a few deaths on both sides but it was never reported by the local news agencies. I had a few uncles that were Buffalo Police officers at the time and they were the ones who told me that there were quite a few deaths on both sides of that gun battle. They also told me that they were absolutely not going to risk their lives trying to stop known felons from killing each other. They were just there to ensure that the violence did not spread outside of the gang controlled area were it was taking place.

To add - in so many other countries the media intentionally doesn't report violent crimes (like in the U.K as a prime example.) They only report specific things. This also happens in the USA and is usually weaponized for political gains, usually when an officer uses his firearm, or if it can be used to push a hot political issue to garner more votes for a specific side. Sadly people aren't really aware of this.@@dennisfloyd999

But only if the powers that be let us rather than send us to protect "American interests" aka oil and commerce. To my embarrassment and shame I was there when we sat on our hands protecting shipping from the financial distress of piracy (the pirates were not killing anyone, just ransoming their ship for money) as the genocide in Rwanda was happening well within our range. We did nothing. Not one single thing.

Unless we're doing the oppressing ofc.

Exactly. What kind of a legal shit storm would have happened if they killed even a couple? They did exactly what they intended, end the problem.

SOCOM disagrees

@@tomjackson4374 Gang members use underground medics a few of them got fucked up. i can guarantee that

@@seminolewarrior1626 You do realize each different branch of the military has its elites? Rangers are the armies elites.

The rangers are part of socom, and the army has rangers, sf, and delta. Marines have marsoc, navy has seals, af has PJs and CCs :)

And the government should be ashamed of themselves for being absolutely useless in enforcing the law.

The next rank, E-7 SFC, is DA (Department of the Army) promotion not a local promotion as SGT (E-5) or SSG (E-6). Local means you are recommended to go before a local promotion board that either recommends you or not. With that recommendation score and other things that (e.g. ribbons, awards, college, PT score, etc.) give a total score (max score was 999). You then make the list and watch the Army Times for the cutoff scores for your MOS (job). If you have match or exceeded the score then you'll be promoted. However, Senior NCO ranks ) E-7 and up are done at the Pentagon with Senior NCOs & Officers reviewing your records, awards, civilian schooling, army professional schools, ASIs, etc. and are awarded a number between 1-5 with 3 sub divisions...5+, 5, 5-....1-. So him not getting promoted was because he wasn't selected. There are things you can do in the army and not get kicked out immediately, but your career is dead. That's what happen. As for the Early Retirement Program, I took it. There was 3 types you could select and you had to have at least 15 years of active duty (Reserve/ National Guard time didn't count) and were in an MOS determine to be excess; (1) full retirement at only 40% of your base pay with all privileges of a full retirement less 10% of your base pay, (2) 10 year plan where you received full benefits for you and your dependents (PX, Commissary, Medical, etc.) only getting a yearly bonus payment for 10 years then no benefits (other than the VA benefits for you), and (3) the Take the Money and Run where you would received a huge one time payment with only the normal VA benefits for the soldier. The program ran for 3 years, IIRC, and the first 2 years were only offered to the combat MOS'. Once they were downsized, then in the 3rd year it was offered to non-combat MOS' since the army could calculate how many support personnel to combat MOS' could be allowed.

REPEAL THE SECOND AMENDMENT!

Spoken like a true idiot. The situation of the border is just the same as it always has been. Nothing in the last decade is any different

Very true. USA cops are corrupt and lazy, can’t depend on them.

You stand no chance against the US Military. Full stop. 0%. Now that we have that understood, the only thing guns are doing are destroying this country.

@@mta4562good luck 😉

I grew up on Hilltop in the 90's

We were McKinley Hill for living, Hilltop for visiting friends or items for sale, or work up on Sixth Avenue or Puyallup Ave. Not bad but not good either. Hey, it's Tacoma. It was serious, I agree, but we still laugh about it to this day. I still maintain a Love/Hate relationship with that city. How about you?

Tacoma changed a lot for the better, but (thanks to politicians) it’s backsliding into its old ways.

Hello from over by Jane Clark Park

Thanks for clarifying. My parents lived up in Sequim and we lived in North Bend, not that far but we didn't know about it until we visited my parents. Dad said they "checked out" their weapons from the armory but I didn't know if it was true.

You're probably talking about Modern Pirates but I like to imagine some Late 1600s- Early 1700s Schooner pulling up flying red flags and shooting cannonballs 😆

​@@Werewolf914Bad day for Jack Sparrow! Lol! 😂🤣

My nephew was serving aboard a Harleigh Burke class destroyer on a Mediterranean cruise, he had to open fire on some bold but dumb Somali pirates who were coming much too close to his ship and were ignoring warnings to withdraw. Fool around and find out. 💀💀💀💀💀

​@@usafvet100your nephew is a liar navy boys lie about everything

Or, people like me buy them, and smoke them precisely as manufactured. They aren't terrible cigars, for the price point. Back when I was on the grass scene, the popular cigar for smoking weed was either a Philly or a White Owl. Never cared for that smoking method, myself. Found it highly over rated.

Yeah exactly.

I doubt it 😅

Mark your target, center of mass ... I'm shocked that rifle fire didn't nail them

They didn't want to kill people. I bet it was mostly suppressive fire

They're still huge in oklahoma, not as visible with the colors but still huge

Probably get killed, pizza and car taken. Not worth it

​@@LJBSullivanthat definitely wouldn't happened it would bring to much attention

Samoans have definitely been better for the city than those “young teens.”

Don't know what you're talking about, lots of Bloods still there

It's not open borders that are doing it. It's the asshole politicians that don't want the laws to be enforced. California won't prosecute thefts of up to about $750, so people are openly stealing from stores and nobody stops them. Illinois are letting criminals go free without even posting bail. It's only a matter of time before this kind of event happens again.

My guess is that some Crips actually DID die that night, or succumbed to wounds a day or two later. I do agree, though, that could have left a few corpses in the streets, had they really wanted to. I would also guess that, if my first guess is correct, the majority of the assumed deaths was was due to untreated (or poorly treated) wounds, since it seems that no one checked into a hospital.

I expect this to be true. Though, I don't think that it was solely the Military doing the covering. I also think that this incident was a threat to a couple of different political agendas, so downplaying the significance of this occurrence would be politically advantageous. For example, this story, especially at the time, was particularly dangerous to the anti-gun lobby, and the political players who adopted that platform. They'd certainly have an interest in wanting this incident to seem rather fruitless.

North End is extremely nice. Eastside and South End are still trash.

Obvious?

@@pieceofmymind360 Then and now, the 13%ers are responsible for the majority of the violent crime.

I would sure like to see that movie again saw it when I was a teenager