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21 INDICTMENTS
Suspected Folk Nation street gang
members facing multiple charges
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BY CHANDLER KIDD
Brooklyn’s top prosecutor
announced indictments
against 21 suspected
members of the Folk Nation
street gang on Tuesday.
The defendants — who
range in age from 17 to 41
years old — were variously
charged with murder,
weapons possession, assault,
and armed robbery for
their alleged involvement
in multiple shootings that
spanned Flatbush, East
Flatbush, and Canarsie that
injured four and left two
young men dead, according to
Brooklyn District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez.
“These defendants
terrorized the streets of
Brooklyn by opening fi re
on perceived rivals and
recklessly fi ring their
guns — including in broad
daylight — endangering
innocent bystanders,” said
Gonzalez, who noted one
instance where a 15-year-old
boy was killed after being
mistaken for a rival gang
member.
Gonzalez alleges the
defendants committed
numerous violent crimes
to establish dominance
over rival Brooklyn gangs,
particularly local subsets of
the Crips and Bloods.
Members of Folk Nation
would go on hunting
expeditions, which they
would call “spinning the
fl ossy,” where they would
search for gang rivals and
shoot them, Gonzalez said.
Two of the suspected gang
member’s search and destroy
missions ended in murder,
including 22-year-old alleged
rival Darren Harrison, who
one of the defendants gunned
down amid a 2017 Canarsie
ambush, and 15-yearold
Rohan Levy, who one
defendant allegedly mistook
for a rival gang member,
according to Gonzalez.
The defendants used
Facebook Live and Snapchat
to showcase their gang
activity, with videos showing
members shooting guns off
rooftops and loading pistols
in the subway, Gonzalez
said. Following Harrison’s
murder, one of the defendants
bragged about the shooting
on social media, while
texting “We spun them, we
had them rollin, duck in,
runnin.”
During a press conference
Tuesday, Gonzalez suggested
the origin of the gangs’ is lost
on current members, who are
merely engaging in a culture
of violence passed down from
generation to generation.
“By their own words, they
don’t know why they are
shooting at each other, they
have no historical knowledge
of what started this feud
in the fi rst place. They just
know that they are expected
to shoot at and attempt to
kill rival gang members,”
Gonzalez said.
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