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This article is about the motorcycle club. For other uses, called Hells Angels.[17] In 1930, the Howard Hughes
see Hells Angels (disambiguation).
lm Hells Angels displayed extraordinary and dangerous
feats of aviation, and it is believed that the World War II
The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is a world- groups who used that name based it on the lm.
wide one-percenter motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The organization is considered an organized crime syndicate by the
U.S. Department of Justice.[5][6][7][8] In the United States
and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the
Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the H.A., Red & White, and
81.[9]
History
This B-17F, tail number 41-24577, was named Hells Angels after the 1930 Howard Hughes movie about World War I ghter
pilots.[10][11]
Criminologist Karen Katz said in 2011 that the Hells Angels were the center of a moral panic in Canada involving
the media, politicians, law enforcement, and the public
that sensationalized the importance of isolated criminal
acts.[24]
3 INSIGNIA
Insignia
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correspondent for The Observer), states that Stephen
Cunningham, a member of the Angels, sported a new
patch after he recovered from attempting to set a bomb,
consisting of two Nazi-style SS lightning bolts below the
words 'Filthy Few'. Some law enforcement ocials claim
that the patch is only awarded to those who have committed, or are prepared to commit murder on behalf of the
club. According to a report from the R. v. Bonner and
Lindsay case in 2005 (see related section below), another
patch, similar to the 'Filthy Few' patch is the 'Dequiallo'
patch. This patch signies that the wearer has fought law
enforcement on arrest.[32] There is no common convention as to where the patches are located on the members
jacket/vest.
3.1
4 Membership
RACIAL POLICIES
Worldwide chapters
The HAMC acknowledges more than one hundred chapters spread over 29 countries. The Hells Angels motorcycle club founded a chapter in Auckland, New Zealand in
1961 and has since taken over gangs in Wanganui. New
Zealand had the rst chapter of the Hells Angels outside the US.[51] Europe did not become widely home to
the Hells Angels until 1969 when two London chapters
were formed. The Beatles' George Harrison invited some
members of the HAMC San Francisco to stay at Apple
Records in London in 1968.[52][53] According to Chris
O'Dell, only two members showed up at Apple Records,
Frisco Pete and Bill Sweet William Fritsch.[54] Two
people from London visited California, prospected, and
ultimately joined. Two charters were issued on July 30,
1969; one for South Londonthe re-imagined chap-
6 Racial policies
The club claims not to be a racially segregated
organization,[60][61] although at least one chapter allegedly
requires that a candidate be a white male,[62] and Sonny
Barger stated in a BBC interview in 2000 that The club,
as a whole, is not racist but we probably have enough
racist members that no black guy is going to get in it.[49]
At that time the club had no black members.[49]
However there have been black members of puppet clubs,
notably Gregory Wooley, a high-ranking member of the
5
Rockers MC in Montreal who was the protg[63] and
bodyguard of Hells Angel boss Maurice Boucher (who
had been labeled a white supremacist by the media).
Wooley became an associate of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter[64] in the 1990s and later tried uniting street
gangs in Quebec after Boucher was imprisoned.[65]
[6] Lockyer, Bill (2003). ORGANIZED CRIME IN CALIFORNIA (PDF). CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE. Retrieved January 23, 2010.
[7] ORGANIZED CRIME IN OREGON (PDF). Oregon
State Department of Justice. September 2006. Retrieved
January 23, 2010.
See also
Motorcycling
River Run Riot
References
Pdr.autono.net.
Re-
[24] Katz, Kare (2011-09-01). The Enemy Within: The Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Moral Panic. American Journal of
Criminal Justice 36 (Springer Boston). pp. 231249.
doi:10.1007/s12103-011-9106-6. ISSN 1066-2316.
REFERENCES
[39] Hells Angels set for rumble on the catwalk - Business Retail. MSNBC. October 27, 2010. Retrieved February
15, 2011.
[40] Jerey, Don (October 26, 2010). Hells Angels Sue Saks,
McQueen Design, Over Trademark. Bloomberg. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
[41] Grazia Fashion: McQueen Settles with Hells Angels.
Graziadaily.co.uk. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
[42] Verena von Pfetten (November 3, 2010). Alexander McQueen Hells Angels SETTLEMENT. Styleite. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
[43] Cowles, Charlotte. Alexander McQueen Settles With
Hells Angels by Agreeing to Destroy Merchandise With
Skull Logo The Cut. Nymag.com. Retrieved February
15, 2011.
[44] Attorney for Plainti : HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CORPORATION (PDF). Archive.org. Retrieved
30 November 2014.
[45] Weller, Susan Neuberger; Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris,
Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (July 12, 2013). Hells Angels
and Toys R Us Settle Death Head Trademark Litigation. The National Law Review. Cite uses deprecated
parameter |coauthors= (help)
[46] Weiss, Debra Cassens (3 December 2013). Hells Angels
club sues often to protect its intellectual property. ABA
Journal. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
[47] Hall, Neal (June 10, 2005). Behind the Patch: Angels
ABCs. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved August 13, 2010.
[48] NDIC Document, US Department of Justice Report on
OMG HA
[32] HAMC Overview Document, Overview of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) In Canada
[49] Born to raise Hell. BBC News. August 14, 2000. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
[34] Hells Angels Motorcycle Club settled disputes the oldfashioned way, with a swift kick in the groin or a punch in
the face to the oending party. Hells Angels. Zimbio.
Retrieved February 15, 2011.
[51] Kemp, p 50
[53] Pg. 129, Rock Scully, David Dalton, Living with the
Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the
Grateful Dead, Cooper Square Publ Inc, 2001 ISBN 9780-8154-1163-5
[56] Biker gangs in Canada. Cbc.ca. July 13, 2011. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
[57] Archived February 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
[58] http://www.abc.es/local-alicante/20140114/
abci-condenados-nueve-motoristas-angeles-201401141805. Yves Lavigne (2000). Hells Angels: Taking Care
of Business. Random House of Canada, Limited.
html
[59] Hells Angels MC World. Hells-angels.com. Retrieved
February 15, 2011.
[60] Johnson Publishing Company (December 1966). Nazi
Emblems of 'Way Outs Are No Symbols of Hate. Ebony:
70. ISSN 0012-9011.
[61] 2003 Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and Black
Biker Set, Tobie Gene Levingston, with Keith and Kent
Zimmerman (St. Paul, MN: Motorbikes International
Publishing). The history of the Oakland-based AfricanAmerican Motorcycle Club with a foreword from Sonny
Barger.
[62] Wright, Gary L. (2012-06-08). FBI leads crackdown on
area Hells Angels gangs in N.C. and S.C.. Winston-Salem
Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
[63] Eric Thibault (2012-08-16). Sun News : Dead gang
leader rebued top biker prior to assassination: Source.
Sunnewsnetwork.ca. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
[64] Montreal police try to calm maa war fears after multiple
killings. Global Montreal. Archived from the original on
2013-03-23. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
[65] Giuseppe Valiante. Sun News : Bust shows connections
in criminal underworld in Canada. Sunnewsnetwork.ca.
Retrieved 2013-06-18.
[66] Sonny Barger Interview. Let Them Talk. Retrieved
2013-06-18.
[67] Soul on Bikes: Tobie Levingston: 9780760317471:
Amazon.com: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved 201306-18.
[68] Johnson Publishing Company (December 1966). Nazi
Emblems of 'Way Outs Are No Symbols of Hate. Ebony:
66. ISSN 0012-9011.
[69] Chosen Few Motorcycle Club - Bualo, NY. Chosenfewbualony.com. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
Further reading
Barnes, Scott (1987). BOHICA (rst ed.). Oakland:
Daring Pubs. pp. 1224. ISBN 0-938936-61-1.
Sonny Barger (2009). Hells Angel: The Autobiography of Sonny Barger. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-006-184736-3.
Paul Cherry (2005). The Biker Trials: Bringing
Down the Hells Angels. ECW Press. ISBN 978-155490-250-7.
ISBN 978-0-7704-2858-7.
Yves Lavigne (2011). Hells Angels: Into the Abyss.
HarperCollins Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-14434-0411-2.
Yves Lavigne (2011). Hells Angels at War. HarperCollins Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-1-44340410-5.
William Marsden; Julian Sher (2010). Angels of
Death: Inside the Bikers Empire of Crime. Knopf
Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-37032-7.
Valerie Smart (2001). The Original Hells Angels:
303rd Bombardment Group of World War II. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-0910-5.
Julian Sher; William Marsden (2010). The Road to
Hell: How the Biker Gangs are Conquering Canada.
Knopf Canada. ISBN 978-0-307-36586-6.
Hunter S. Thompson (1999). Hells Angels: A
Strange and Terrible Saga. Modern Library. ISBN
978-0-679-60331-3.
Edward Winterhalder; Wil De Clercq (2008). The
Assimilation: Rock Machine Become Bandidos: Bikers United Against the Hells Angels. ECW Press.
ISBN 978-1-55490-321-4.
10 External links
Ocial website listing many chartered local chapters, with links
Hells Angels at DMOZ
FBI le on Hells Angels
Never-Seen: Hells Angels, 1965 slideshow by Life
magazine
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