King Tone

In 1997, a few months after his appointment as leader of the Latin Kings, The New York Times posed the question whether Fernandez was a "Man of Vision or of Violence."

Mirroring the activism of groups such as the Young Lords and the Black Panthers, he wanted to reform and rebrand the Latin Kings and its 7,000 members.

He united the divided sects of the gang and presented his ideas at local meetings, building the new principles of the Latin Kings from the ground up.

[3] In 2007, HBO released a documentary called "Latin Kings: A Street Gang story", which was primarily a biography of Fernandez.

Created by award-winning documentary maker Jon Alpert, it depicts two sides to Fernandez' role as head of the Latin Kings.