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Mar 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A man was found shot to death in a car at the I-20 underpass. Two days ago, the parent of one of Young Thug's children was murdered outside of a bowling alley. These things are directly connected and part of the larger gang violence problem in Atlanta.

#gapol
Seven years ago, Donovan "Peanut" Thomas, a noted Inglewood Family Bloods gang leader (watch for the #llnut tags) was murdered in Castleberry Hill. Police have never charged anyone for that murder, but they have suspects.

One of those suspects is Shannon Jackson.
Peanut's murder led to a rift between the YSL group, fronted by @youngthug, and those still connected to the Inglewood crew and YFN in Atlanta, fronted by @YFNLUCCI.

In 2015, as part of the pattern of attacks and reprisals that sprung from killing Peanut, Jackson was targeted.
They missed.

They killed Tiara Bogan-Jones instead.

fox5atlanta.com/news/mother-sh…
The pattern of attacks and reprisals have been continuing since, accelerating over the last few months. I'm starting to unravel the connections.

Last night, police arrested two men for murder and gang activity for the I-20 shooting.

Quamarvious Nichols. And Shannon Jackson.
I'm getting some of this background from court transcripts and filings related to the shooting of Martinez Arnold - the rapper Lil Duke ... or YSL Duke ... outside Magic City in 2018. Duke is suing Magic City. Their response has a lot of background in it.

ajc.com/news/crime--la…
I don't know all the gritty details yet. But APD's plain violence-prevention interest in removing YSL and YFN gang members from the streets starts to make the prioritization of the arrest of people like YSL rapper/gangster Christian "Bad Bhris" Eppinger make strategic sense.
Eppinger is the guy who shot an Atlanta cop six times in February when they went to arrest him.

Two days later, YFN Lucci got stabbed in jail.

And now Lucci's crew look like they're lighting people up on the street, including Thuggers' family.
Here's the thing I'm worried about, as these escalations continue.

Um ...

statefarmarena.com/events/detail/…
Do we ... still do this? For real? Serious question.

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The rapper @youngthug, Jeffery Lamar Williams, was arrested a few hours ago at a rented mansion in Buckhead.
@youngthug Young Thug is being held at Fulton County Jail, ostensibly on narcotics and gang charges. I am working to confirm the exact charges. This appears to be the beginning of the state gang racketeering case alluded to by Fulton DA Willis last month.
I've been watching this case unfold in filings and court testimony in other cases. For background, look here.

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I like Fort. We're friends. Set that aside.

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Because I have now heard from several people who've seen him recently that he is ... unwell.
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Just reading this brief in detail from the USDOJ on the unbelievable stonewalling @GA_Corrections is giving them. What the actual fuck. How bad must it be, if they're trying this shit.

#gapol

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I am (for no good reason) not a lawyer. @AnthonyMKreis, @JoshforGeorgia, @tribelaw, @senatorjen, @JeremyTBerry: you gotta look at this.

GDOC wanted the Justice department to sign an NDA to do an inspection of a prison and talk to prisoners ... while under federal investigation.
The appropriate answer to this trash is for the DoJ to march 30 FBI agents into whatever random prison they like unannounced, and make the $16.50 an hour prison guards try to stop them.

And I thought their bullshit with me was bad.

Again: how bad must it be for this response?
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Mar 4
What the hell is this. This legislation came out of nowhere 10 days ago. It appears on its face to prohibit municipalities from providing permanent housing to people experiencing homelessness.

legis.ga.gov/legislation/62…

#gapol #atlanta
Some state senator drove by encampments on the way to the capitol and decided the best thing he could do is to force them to sleep in the cars they don't have or in pillboxes instead of, you know, an actual apartment.
It prohibits spending more than $35,000 per unit on shelter, exclusive of land costs. Which is to say, it prohibits building an actual home within 100 miles of Atlanta.

It also treats Atlanta in fundamentally different ways than the rest of Georgia. Because white Republicans.
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This movie will be discussed.
The director plainly took his tone from The Joker. This is a dark film. There are essentially no concessions to comedy.
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As we wrestle with the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, remember that all wars are borne from miscalculation.

America's far-right believes that it has no path forward with politics; that the bullet will supplant the ballot, soon.

They believe if it comes to a gunfight, they'll win.
They're wrong. They're wildly outnumbered and deeply unpopular. Open armed conflict will result in a unified effort to crush them.

But the Rittenhouse verdict will bolster militants. They can now argue their chances on guns to people looking for an excuse to kill.
On its own, I think we could write this verdict off as a product of specific conditions. But consider how it interfaces with the "Stop the Steal" rhetoric of the right.
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