By Calvin Walden
The first gang member I met was a classmate at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta.
He sat at a computer looking up guns on the internet last year in a social studies class. He said he belonged to the Fruit Town Pirus, a Bloods gang. And he bragged about crimes they committed — robberies and burglaries.
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