Alleged Toronto street gang the "Dixon City Bloods" were raided in 2013's Project Traveller, making headlines across the country for charges involving crack and gun operations in Southern Ontario. But the group occupies a unique space in the city's consciousness. Several alleged members appeared in a notorious photo with deceased former Toronto mayor Rob Ford in the companion piece to his crack tape. Two of the men in that photo were later shot-one fatally. Their turf, Dixon, is much smaller than its reputation, just six condo towers at the intersection of Dixon Road and Kipling Avenue near Toronto's Pearson airport. After an influx of Somali refugees in the early 1990s, it was dubbed 'Little Mogadishu'; the neighbourhood remains predominantly Somali.
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