Did the FBI go over board a little in its recent 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report?
Reporter Spencer Ackerman of WIRED seems to think so.
Ackerman writes that the FBI considers the teen fans of the “shticky rap group Insane Clown Posse to represent a threat on par with the Crips, Bloods, and Aryan Brotherhood.”
Apparently the fans of the Insane Clown Posse’s people — called Juggalos — paint their faces and have been known to cause mayhem at concerts. The rap group Insane Clown Posse is comprised of a duo from Detroit.
WIRED writes that the feds describe the group as loosely-organized hybrid gang” that are “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity.”
WIRED writes that the FBI report says the Juggalo gang activity includes thefts, hand-to-hand drug sales and felony assaults.
“The FBI has recently had difficulty distinguishing ordinary American Muslims from terrorists; now it appears it has a similar problem distinguishing teenage fads from criminal conspiracies,” Ackerman writes.
Time magazine wrote a little piece on the matter and labeled it “Bizarre.”
