[9] In 1993, Regis Deon Thomas, a member of the Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, shot and killed two Compton Police Department officers during a traffic stop.

They were the first Compton police officers to be killed in the line of duty in the department's 65-year history.

[3][4] In 2003, shots were fired at Los Angeles Police Department patrol officers in two incidents in the Nickerson Gardens projects.

[13] The gang is situated within Nickerson Gardens, the largest government housing complex west of the Mississippi River.

[14] The complex forms the majority of its territory which is the largest of any African-American street gang in Watts.