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Having already been influenced by the latent racism of his bigoted firefighter father ( William Russ ), Derek is driven to action when his father is shot and killed while fighting a fire in a suspected Compton drug den.

Eventually Derek becomes second-in-command of a neo-Nazi street gang, The D. O. C.

( Disciples of Christ ), and entices young whites to join.

The gang commits acts of intimidation, such as damaging a store employing illegal Mexican immigrants which is owned by a Korean and challenging black players to basketball games to win the court as turf.

These incidents go unnoticed by the family until Derek has an argument ( involving Rodney King ) with his mother's new boyfriend Murray ( Elliott Gould ), who is Jewish, and throws Murray out of the house.

Later that night, while Derek is having sex with his equally white supremacist girlfriend Stacey ( Fairuza Balk ), Danny informs Derek that three Crips members are attempting to steal Derek's truck, left to him by his father.

Derek runs outside and shoots at two of the men with a pistol, killing the first one instantly.

He shoots and wounds the second man, one of the black basketball players, and vows to " teach him a lesson " for trying to steal the truck his father gave him.

He forces him to put his mouth on the curb, then brutally kills him by stomping on the back of his head, crushing his mouth against the curb.

Danny watches in horror as this unfolds.

The police arrest Derek as he smiles at a shocked Danny.