Ray Browing Summary

BGF leader Ray Ray Browing was especially masterful in manipulation. While running a quite lucrative drug smuggling operation via the Columbian drug cartel, he quite successfully sidelined a reputation among local inner city neighborhoods as being an organization that cheerfully gave to those in need. This tactic had a sinister side to it however as there was a cost with dealing with a gang of this magnitude. Valdemar elaborates further on the fact that under the Browning administration, profits were used to pay the grocery and utility bills of the families that resided in the homes surrounding the residences they occupied along with paying neighborhood teens to monitor police scanners and even younger children to report if any strange people
The Baltimore City Police Department appeared quite confident that as they apprehended gang members on the streets, the citizens would be safer. On the contrary, the streets of Baltimore were overflowing with members of the Black Guerilla Family and even that status was not enough to protect them from the sanctions being handed down from the top leaders if they did not follow directions given to them. Likewise for those who chose not to join the family. There appeared to be more safety in pledging allegiance to the group if you wanted protection. Open air drug markets were scattered along city blocks and dues were to be paid if you are working for the BGF as well as if you opt out. Members that did not follow the Black Guerilla Family code of conduct in its entirety were subject to “fines, physical beatings, stabbings, and murders administered by other BGF members” (DOJ, 2016). Although many leaders of the BGF have been apprehended over the decades, none manipulated the system quite to the extent that leader Tavon White was able to. The Baltimore City Detention Center housed BGF Leader Tavon White, who after a short time began running the show inside