Black Guerrilla Family

The Black Guerrilla Family is a criminal organization that acts as a supporting antagonist in the film An  Innocent Man. It is based on the homonymous and really existing African-American street gang founded in 1966 and founded by the activist George Jackson.

In the film the gang is described as one of the most dangerous criminal factions in the prison where Jimmy Rainwood - the protagonist of the film - was locked up. Butcher - one of the inmates - refers to them as "provocative fanatics": they have the habit of targeting inmates for no particular reason, pursuing them with mocking and increasingly heavy abuse (from extortion to beating), until gang rape and probably even murder) and in the film Jimmy becomes their favorite victim. When the man, under the advice of Virgil Cane, Butcher and other prisoners kills Jingles - the leader of the gang - the remaining members of the group no longer bother him.

Notable members

 * Jingles (leader, deceased)


 * Felix
 * Junior