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Brookhaven board hears social-media and video evidence tying Medusa events to gang identifiers
Summary
DeKalb County gang investigator and a city crime analyst told the Brookhaven Alcohol Licensing Board that social-media posts and two video clips admitted into evidence show repeated red apparel, hand signs and hashtags the detective described as Bloods identifiers; Medusa’s counsel disputes that the posts amount to licensable criminal conduct.
Detective Menifee, a gang investigator with the DeKalb County Police Department, told the Brookhaven Alcohol Licensing Board that social-media posts and two video clips admitted as evidence show repeated visual and verbal signals he associates with the Bloods criminal street gang.
The detective said social media and the video clips were “very paramount when it comes to gang investigations,” and pointed to photos and comments that, in his view, showed staff in red bandanas, a birthday cake marked with stylized references to Compton, and hashtags and tags that linked an account used by Shadi Mohammed to AMG and Rich Foundation. The…
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