#100days100nights: Gang threats of violence on social media draw fear

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The photographs went online earlier this month after a 27-year-old man was gunned down in South Los Angeles. One showed a man flashing a chrome handgun from his jacket pocket. In another, a young man held a pistol in each hand.

“Better wake up,” one person wrote on Instagram. “It's a war goin' on.”

“This area ain't safe right now,” someone else posted with a map showing a portion of South L.A.

The warnings of increased gang violence intensified across social media platforms this weekend after more than half a dozen shootings in South L.A. left one man dead and 12 people wounded.

The postings created an echo chamber in which it was difficult to determine what was a real threat and what was rumor. One of the most incendiary claims was that a gang had vowed 100 days of violence after the 27-year-old man was killed on July 17, sparking alarming hashtags such as #100days100nights and #PrayforLA on Twitter and other sites.

Police said they were monitoring the traffic as they try to quell the violence. LAPD Deputy Chief Bill Scott met with gang intervention workers Monday night, telling them there was no evidence to corroborate the threats and asking for help in calming fears.

“You've got everyday folks who have nothing to do with the gang lifestyle and culture scared,” he said.

The events underscore how social media platforms in recent years have played a significant role in the investigation of gang crimes as well as the effort to reduce violence. Investigators and gang intervention workers said gang members don't rely only on spray-painting the sides of buildings to send their threats. Now, they said, social media allow gangs to directly challenge adversaries and quickly spread fear within neighborhoods.

“Gang rivalries are now fought by insults and threats on social media,” said Robert Rubin, a community intervention worker in South Los Angeles.

Aqeela Sherrills, who also works in gang intervention, agreed.

“Now the message gets across the city faster,” he said. “In the neighborhood, everything travels by word of mouth. Social media added a quantum effect to it.”
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/...al-media-draw-fear-20150727-story.html#page=1

Stay safe to those that live in South LA
 
I heard about this. My homeboy's brother is in film school out there.

Isn't this the stuff people are proud of tho? Their hood being 'hard'? Foh.
People love glorifying that gang life until it hits too close to home. Ask Chris Brown.
 
sooperhooper said:
I heard about this. My homeboy's brother is in film school out there.

Isn't this the stuff people are proud of tho? Their hood being 'hard'? Foh.
People love glorifying that gang life until it hits too close to home. Ask Chris Brown.
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I hope a crip catch CB slippin in LA and Rico his ***
 
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OGMCMXCII said:
sooperhooper said:
I heard about this. My homeboy's brother is in film school out there.

Isn't this the stuff people are proud of tho? Their hood being 'hard'? Foh.
People love glorifying that gang life until it hits too close to home. Ask Chris Brown.
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I hope a crip catch CB slippin in LA and Rico his ***
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Man shut the hell up. Since when is wishing someones death cool?
 
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like i said before not much has changed in south la. the tension there is real. whenever i go there i make sure to wear neutral tone attire. it's crazy because the neighborhood areas look nice (as in nice looking houses) it's just the people who decide to ruin it for the hard working decent people. can't even step outside your pad at night without having to worry about a drive by :smh:
 
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Ryda421 said:
like i said before not much has changed in south la. the tension there is real. whenever i go there i make sure to wear neutral tone attire. it's crazy because the neighborhood areas look nice (as in nice looking houses) it's just the people who decide to ruin it for the hard working decent people. can't even step outside your pad at night without having to worry about a drive by
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Sit down breh. It's changed a lot. Not close to being as bad as it was.
 
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tay1 said:
Sit down breh. It's changed a lot. Not close to being as bad as it was.
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im talking about from 70's-90's. **** is still crazy. not as crazy but still hot. where you stay at? you hang around there at night time
 
Ryda421 said:
im talking about from 70's-90's. **** is still crazy. not as crazy but still hot. where you stay at? you hang around there at night time
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Pretty much the area in that map thats being passed around all over social media
 
you must stay in a nice little pocket there. because when i go gang members chillin at the corners. once the sun goes down its a free for all
 
Ryda421 said:
you must stay in a nice little pocket there. because when i go gang members chillin at the corners. once the sun goes down its a free for all
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I mean they are ***** neighborhoods for the most part, so it's to be expected out here. 
 
i guess one thing that has changed is that you kind of don't see crazy stuff during the day like back then. but like i said once the sun goes down. it's another world
 
The actual area where that is supposedly going down is smaller than the map above says it is. From what I've seen and heard, it doesnt go all the way to Avalon. Vermont or even Figuroa tops.
 
Was just out there with the fambs last month 102&prarie. Cuzzo had to carry the burner just to get some chicken at church's off century. This soc media got these ygs active. ***** crazy
 
Wayniac211 said:
Was just out there with the fambs last month 102&prarie. Cuzzo had to carry the burner just to get some chicken at church's off century. This soc media got these ygs active. ***** crazy
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Why you cuz at church's in the first place? Specially off century. Take ya'll ***** to Wingstop at least.
 
Ryda421 said:
i guess one thing that has changed is that you kind of don't see crazy stuff during the day like back then. but like i said once the sun goes down. it's another world
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That may be true, cuz in the day time, most of these areas aren't sketchy looking at all.
 
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Wayniac211 said:
Was just out there with the fambs last month 102&prarie. Cuzzo had to carry the burner just to get some chicken at church's off century. This soc media got these ygs active. ***** crazy
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I stay near Imperial and Western. Haven/t seen/heard anything unusual.
 
People in gangs are stupid. A fact made blatantly obvious by the fact that they dont know how the internet or social media works.
 
Wayniac211 said:
You know any other spot that got a 14 pc for 8.99?
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you going to get the 12 piece clip for free

nah but in all seriousness. stay safe out there man. **** ain't no joke.

didn't know so many NTers stayed in south la aka 'the hood'
 
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