First State Witness Decodes Gang Coding In YSL Trial

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First state witness Mark Belknap took the stand to decode YSL's alleged gang code. Belknap began by explaining the significance of the "Gang Triangle", which comprises "Gang," "Person," and "Crime."  #hiphop #hiphopnews #music #musicnews #rapnews #sohh #sohhdotcom #sohhnews #youngthug #thugger #ysl #ysltrial #yslricotrial #ricotrial

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00:00 with the bloods. They started wearing red bandanas. They started using the number

00:04 five, including in five-point stars. They started using their own hand sign, again

00:11 that's a local thing, this triangle hand sign. They would get tattoos with the

00:16 gang's name, ROC or Rock Crew, things of that nature, and they would add in along

00:21 with that those five-point stars or the number five or adding in red accents to

00:25 their tattoos particularly. They would tag up the area in their community with

00:31 the gang's name and with some of these same identifiers we associate with the

00:35 bloods. And of course tagging that was meant to disrespect rival gangs, including

00:42 the Crips, which are of course the the sort of mortal enemy of the bloods. They

00:49 began wearing of course red bandanas, also custom clothing for the gang itself,

00:53 which incorporated both their local identifiers and those national

00:57 traditional identifiers, including some shirts that said "So what we blooded"

01:02 announcing that they were associated with the bloods. And they began taking on

01:07 other blood gang identifiers, including those for a particular blood gang called

01:11 Sex Money Murder.

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