Cleveland Gang Orders Members To Murder White Cops

by JASmius



"We should not equate the actions of a sick man who did a sick thing with mass demonstrations for [revenge] and for [race war]," said Jesse Jackson this morning. "Don't make that equation."

But how about the actions of an entire gang of "sick men," "Rev'rund"?  Can we make that equation then?:

The Heartless Felons gang gave its members orders to kill white police officers to avenge black lives taken by white police officers, including the November 21st Tamir Rice shooting, officials said.

Detectives determined the threat was unsubstantiated after they investigated a screen shot of an email that spread through social media.

The Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office received the tip and deemed it credible enough to reach out to local police departments to make them aware of the threat.

Sheriff’s office spokesman John O’Brien would not say where or when they got the tip.

O’Brien said the sheriff’s office declined to give specific information about the threat for fear that it would benefit the gang.

Akron Police Chief James Nice said his department received notification of the Heartless Felons’ threat about a week ago via a police bulletin. Nice said the threat was among the reasons he decided to have patrol cars staffed with two officers, instead of one.

“It was in the mix,” Nice said. “We knew there are people like the Heartless Felons who are angry and yell to kill cops.”

He said most of Akron’s gangs tend to be neighborhood gang with no national or regional affiliation. He said he believes the Heartless Felons gang is so expansive that some may operate in Akron.

“We just want our officers to be on heightened alert,” Nice said. “We need to remain tactically alert of surroundings when a threat like that is made. This gang is absolutely violent. It’s not a threat with no substance.”

Forewarned is forearmed, as the saying goes.  The question - largely rhetorical, in my estimation - is whether HF's threat was "unsubstantiated" or deterred by police precautions and heightened alert status. Also if detectives dismissed the threat as "unsubstantiated" because it was disseminated through social media, as though they dismiss the possibility that HF might be proudly broadcasting its cop-killing intentions, just like Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley did.

Which means this particular story is far from concluded.