The "Tiny Raskal Gang", (also known as "TRG" or 7126 the 7 looks like a T and the 12 looks like an R and the 6 a G) is the largest Asian American street gang in the United States. The gang originated among Cambodian refugees living in Long Beach. It emerged in the 1980s after a massive wave of Cambodian refugees entered the United States fleeing Cambodia's violent Khmer Rouge insurgency. For the Cambodians, living in America turned out to be as hard as arriving there. Because of the way they spoke and looked, young Cambodian kids faced discrimination from the Latino community. The gang became an official gang in 1989 when a carload of TRGs pulled up and opened fire at the East Side Longo Gang and killed an ESL member. A war was started between the two but in the end the East Side Longo Gan
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