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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRival Bloods and Crips gangs teaming up to ‘take out’ Baltimore cops: authorities
BALTIMORE Baltimore Police say they have received a "credible threat" that rival gangs have teamed up to "take out" law enforcement officers.
Police said in a statement that they have received information that members of "various gangs" including the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips have "entered into a partnership" to harm police.
"Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers," police said.
Capt. Eric Kowalczyk, the agency's chief spokesman, said he could not immediately elaborate on how the information was received or why police found it credible. He would not say whether it was believed connected to the ongoing demonstrations regarding the death of Freddie Gray, who suffered a severed spine while in police custody and died.
In December, the Baltimore FBI office issued a memo that the Black Guerrilla Family gang was targeting "white cops" in Maryland, an agency spokeswoman confirmed.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/rival-bloods-and-crips-gangs-teaming-up-to-take-out-baltimore-cops-authorities/
peacebird
(14,195 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)romanic
(2,841 posts)all over the internet though.
procon
(15,805 posts)The handshake between two enemy gang kingpins? These are the same gangs who would never agree to a partnership of their drug businesses to make more money, but are now suddenly willing to risk life and prison time to team up with their hated rivals to target cops... something they can do any day of the week without the need of a buddy system if they wanted to.
This is weak. It smells like a total hoax, a lie, another pretext for using more force against black people and getting away with it.
hatrack
(59,587 posts).
kimbutgar
(21,157 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Bloods and Crips unite in Baltimore to 'stop killing one another and rebuild the community'
Gang rivals from the Bloods and the Crips stand side-by-side against police brutality in Baltimore this week, determined to unite for a "common good".
Several photos purportedly showing members of the usually warring gangs posing together have been shared on social media, in an alliance apparently brokered by the Nation of Islam activists in honour of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury while in police custody and whose funeral served as the catalyst for the riots.
One photo sees men in red bandanas sitting next to men in blue bandanas with their fists in the air, while a video shows members of each gang with their arms around each other explaining that they've put their differences aside because they don't want people to get hurt.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-bloods-and-the-crips-unite-in-baltimore-to-stop-killing-one-another-and-rebuild-the-community-10209635.html
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)wouldn't there be a metric fuck-ton more of dead kops on the streets of Baltimore right now?
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)and the police. The GOP has no reason to want peace or understanding between black locals and the police. Riots play into the Southern Strategy the GOP is reliant on.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Wouldn't it be nice if they would do this for citizens?
JI7
(89,251 posts)Queen
tularetom
(23,664 posts)If these gangs want to scare the shit out of the cops they need to team up with the Bundy Ranch folks.
Those guys got to point auto loading rifles at Federal and local officers and walked away clean.
This? Smells like somebody is mongering a bit of fear.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)Next, they'll be telling us that ISIS is sending hunter-killer teams to Baltimore, and that they'll be dispensing Ebola with their poison-tipped umbrellas.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)-- Some dumbass who actually believes this.