However, the young Haitians of Montreal found themselves in a double concern: they had to deal with the animosity of the whites of the east of the metropolis who treated them of "cursed n * gre" and the hostility of the English-speaking blacks of the West who called them "f *** ing Haitian".
Following the death of Chris, a young Haitian without history, who was stabbed at the Tropicana club by John P Gordon, a Jamaican part of the group The Untouchables (the Gordon brothers), the rift between black Anglos and Haitians widens.
Full of arrogance and self-confidence, the Belangers move west of the city to face off against the Uptown Posse (Côte-des-neiges), The Untouchables (Côte-des-neiges) and Downtown Posse (Little Burgundy).
A few months later, on April 9, 1990, a tragic event shook the black community: Leslie Presley became the second black man killed by police when he received six bullets fired by three officers during an intervention following a call for brawl at the Thunderdome club.