Brooklyn Gang Members Indicted After Bragging About Murder on Facebook

Social media saves us all.

September 14, 2012
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Facebook is not the place to brag about your gang activity. Remember, the police are watching. Forty-nine members of the Brooklyn gangs the Rockstarz and the Very Crispy Gangsters were indicted this week for murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy. The gangs had been feuding for years, and had been using Facebook to threaten each other and brag about murders and other crimes they had committed.

The Times was present at a press conference held by NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly and Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and shared this information:

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law—even if it's on Facebook.

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[via Hip-Hop Wired and the New York Times]

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