Sacramento News & Review: Insane Criminal Prosecution
The Sacramento News & Review has published an in-depth article looking at the effects the gang classification has on local juggalos. This is a very interesting article that details some of the hardships and struggles that juggalos are having since being labeled as a gang.
Some of the bullet points of this article are:
- Fan or menace
- 'Juggalos are a gang'
- Demon warlord Samaritans
- 'Just a fandom'
Before Brandon Bradley knew what was happening, on that dark street in Citrus Heights last January, two cops in bulletproof vests cornered him near a guardrail as they took photos of his tattoos and clothing, and accused him of being in a gang. “I was really scared and just wanted to get that situation over with,” Bradley, now 20, recalled during a recent interview at his apartment. Like a million other fans, Bradley is a passionate devotee of Insane Clown Posse, an ecstatically deranged rap duo out of Detroit. Since the early ’90s, the group has thrilled followers and vexed music critics with its trashy brand of horror-laced hip-hop, selling 6.5 million poorly reviewed albums in the process. The band’s most ardent admirers—dubbed “Juggalos”—sport body art and, sometimes, scary-clown face paint to affiliate themselves with ICP and its “horrorcore” genre. But ever since the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released a February 2011 report on emerging crime and gang trends within the Juggalo community, being “down with the clown” has become synonymous with gangbanging in states like California, where at least four Juggalo subsets have been identified. Sacramento is an epicenter of this disputed gang activity, with cliques in Stockton and the counties of El Dorado and Solano. Unconfirmed rumors of a Juggalo crew in Sacramento’s Del Paso Heights neighborhood once circulated as well.To read the full article click the link below.
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