In the mid 1980’s the city of Miami underwent a mind-blowing transformation that would change its core identity forever. Cocaine’s profit and popularity exploded, immediately changing the city and it's citizens, for good.

The drug was an encompassing, free-spirited high that initially seemed like a harmless party favor. Soon, it sneakily snatched it’s users into a powerfully unforgiving state of addiction,  and the sellers as well.

Illegal profits were reportedly in the billions and since it was sold mainly in inner-city neighborhoods, a new breed of businessman emerged in the city's housing projects.

Points of distribution called ‘dope-holes’ or ‘spots’ were springing up all over within the increasingly more violent neighborhoods and they all required vendors. Those vendors eventually became rich and even more violent. They would do anything it seemed to procure their slice of the ‘American pie’

Cocaine equaled power, and everybody wanted it.

In every black neighborhood, drugs were being sold. If you ruled that neighborhood you could sell there and make a fortune, but there was only so much room in the projects. Thus, there were bad guys leaving the projects to fight for control of unprotected neighborhoods all the time.

There was one neighborhood however, that only seemed unprotected.  

In that neighborhood, there were historically proud, tradition-rich people, protected by virtuous men of principle. They refused to be taken over by bad men that did not share their same ideals.

Men like Antonio Richards, loved his neighborhood, the people that lived there and the unwritten laws that they lived by. He was not considered to be a bad man, but was certainly considered bad enough to keep the bad men out!