Today's New York Post trumpets the arrest of "more than 60" Harlem gangbangers from crews like Air It Out, True Money Gang and Trillas, who were "felled by their own social media posts," according to police.
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"Dangerous surveillance" refers, in part, to social media monitoring that led to the arrests, as police treated slang like a code to be deciphered. The second half of the Post's article reads like a forgotten "Ebonics" verse, as they quote the police department's analysis of street slang.
But most strange is their use of gang members quoting rap lyrics as "evidence."
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As anyone with a passing familiarity with the MMG catalog is aware, these are paraphrased quotes of Rick Ross and Meek Mill, rather than criminal confessions, per se.
[Via NYMag]
