Exploring Insane Clown Posse's Case Against the FBI

Hey homies, Ct.com recently caught up with Shaggy 2 Dope for an interview! A few things covered in this article are Juggalo's Being labeled a gang, his reaction to it at first, the Juggalos Fight Back: Family Under Fire articles from the Hatchet Herald and more. While this is pretty short article and doesn't really say anything new, I thought it was a decent read and is worth you checking it out for yourself. You can read the whole interview by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.

Here is the Part of the Article :

In early April, police in Greater Manchester, England began classifying in-county attacks on goths, punks and emos as hate crimes — just as they would attacks predicated on race, religion, sexual orientation or disability. This startling change in policy is heavily linked to the 2007 death of Sophie Lancaster, a 20-year-old English woman who was beaten into a life-ravaging coma by a small mob because she was goth. Violence and discrimination against members of music-born subcultures isn't unusual — a 17-year-old punk named Brian Deneke was murdered in Texas in 1997, and anti-emo riots unfolded in Mexico in 2008 — but this new reform marks one of the rare instances (if not the first) of a government body being on the side of a subculture.

In America, the exact opposite is happening with the FBI and Juggalos, the deeply loyal fans of the face paint-clad, Detroit-born hip-hop twofer Insane Clown Posse. A 2011 trend report from the National Gang Intelligence Center, a multi-agency organization that includes the FBI, marked Juggalos as a quickly rising "loosely-organized hybrid gang" with its hooks in 22 states (four of which officially recognized Juggalos as a gang). The report described Juggalos as a loosely knit group of ICP acolytes who were often homeless and involved in small crimes — simple assault, personal drug use and possession, petty theft, vandalism — and now beginning to try their hands at more definite gang-centric activities like felony assault, drug dealing, theft and robbery. Two cases were cited as evidence of Juggalos as a gang. In one, two suspected Juggalo associates were charged with the beating and robbing of an elderly homeless man in Oregon in 2010. In the other, a suspected Juggalo member shot and wounded a couple in Washington in 2011. This past March, the Freedom-of-Information-Act-focused site MuckRock obtained a hefty FBI-assembled file of press clippings of Juggalo-related crime, internal reports and internal e-mails all stacking evidence against the fan base. Authorities considered them to be gang-affiliated since at least 2008.

The full article is at the link below.

Exploring Insane Clown Posse's Case Against the FBI @Ct.com