«Black lists» began to appear on Instagram after yet another street shooting in Detroit (Michigan) in July 2014.
First black-list of 10 people created by the opponents of the gang of Seven Mile Bloods. In response, Seven Mile Bloods with account ooo_big_blood posted your own list with 62 names of «enemies».
It has been 10 months and on the streets of Detroit the blood flowed. Just 10 days in may 2015, two men were killed, one was paralyzed and another five were wounded — all in one block East of Detroit. A few photos from disassembly, again, was published in Instagram.
Posts in social networks, Federal prosecutors used as evidence. After three years of investigation, charges were brought against 21 gang members Seven Mile Bloods. Four of them soon have to render a verdict on the remaining ongoing trial.
Indictment offers look inside Detroit’s Seven Mile Bloods gang https://t.co/41TbHmtkFW via @MLive @GusBurns pic.twitter.com/AbvXSkbtQg
— tanya moutzalias (@tjm_tanya) March 2, 2016
The popularity of social networking because of their availability affects the growth of violence and lament CSU. So, according to the police Cicero (suburb of Chicago), the last few years, 70% of conflicts between gangs associated with the «showdown» in social networks.
«You don’t need to call someone. You don’t even need to send a text message. All this was on Facebook Live», — says the consultant of the Commission on crimes in Chicago, Andrew Henning.
The murder of 19-year-old resident of Chicago Lamenta Reese — an example of how a virtual war become real. The guy told me about the life of gangs in the network on Twitter under the name @taedoeDaShoota, recorded videos on YouTube and posted abusive posts in the Facebook address gang-rival. In June of this year on the South side of Chicago Reese was shot.
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