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    Chicago thug films himself being gunned down

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7lcfuEmiRQ

    CHICAGO (FOX 32 / AP) - Chicago investigators have no reason to question the authenticity of a social media posting that seems to show a man taking a selfie video being struck by gunfire, a police spokesman said Friday.

    "We are confident (it) isn't a hoax," Anthony Guglielmi, the police spokesman, said in a brief statement emailed Friday afternoon.

    Guglielmi said the 31-year-old victim, Brian Fields, was in critical condition in hospital. He added the man was known to police and that detectives were waiting to speak with him. Investigators were exploring whether the man videoing himself was targeted in retaliation for previous violence, he said. The gunman fled and no suspect is in custody.

    While cyber-banging has been around as long as social media has, this may be the first time someone was shot while live on Facebook.

    Fields was convicted of a murder in Chicago in 2005. On Thursday, he was standing outside a closed store at 56th and Hoyne when shots rang out.

    Fields, known as "Sugar Ray" in the neighborhood, referenced the store being closed in his video.

    “I can't be out here without the store being open. I need somewhere to duck and hide for cover,” he said.

    Desmond Patton is a professor at Columbia University.

    “The fact that he mentions that he needs access to the store that was previously not open in order to duck and dive meant that he had some awareness of what could potentially happen,” Patton said.

    Patton studies youth violence and the social media connections.

    “It looks like one of the things he wanted to do was say to everyone, I'm here, I'm brave, I'm strong, I am so strong that I can be in a rival group's neighborhood and video tape it,” Patton said.

    Police say it appears Fields was taunting his rivals. At the last second, he sees something out of the corner of his eye and then gets shot, dropping his cell phone as he ran.

    The gunman then stands right over the phone and fires sixteen shots. Fields was struck five times.

    A male witness who lives down the street spoke to FOX 32.

    “I heard the shots, and as I heard the shots the first instinct is to just run,” the man said.

    Brandon Reynolds, who works to help youth in gangs, says while the video is disturbing, there's another aspect that's equally troubling because of the long term impact.

    “Youth are really desensitized to stuff like that. A lot of people posted that through Facebook, it went viral and kids were watching that and posting it and then right after that went and played video games or did whatever they wanted to do,” Reynolds said.

    There is no indication that Fields was hit inadvertently or that it was a case of mistaken identity, Guglielmi said.

    "He was certainly targeted," he said. "We are trying to find out why."

    Among the theories investigators are considering is that the shooting might have been in retaliation for taunting rival street-gang members live online. Another possibility is that the man taking the selfie was taunting rivals after straying purposely into another gang's territory, Guglielmi said.

    In gang-related shootings, investigators typically search social media sites for clues when a call comes in. In this case, they found the video on Facebook, Guglielmi said.

    "More and more of these incidents either originate or escalate from some type of activity that is on a social media platform," Guglielmi said. The term police use for the phenomenon, he said, is 'cyber-banging.'

    In the video, Fields glances to his right a split second before the first sounds of gunfire.

    After about 30 seconds of silence, people can be heard talking about rushing to the hospital. And then a woman is heard crying and screaming, "Oh my God, no! ... I don't believe this!"



    HOW IN THE FUCK ARE YOU CONVICTED OF MURDER IN 2005, AND STILL BE OUT OF PRISON IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS?!!!!

    Remember though, the problem isn't the criminal justice system, it's you and me. The reason why these thugs are killing each other is because of us not giving up our second amendment rights.
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    HOW IN THE FUCK ARE YOU CONVICTED OF MURDER IN 2005, AND STILL BE OUT OF PRISON IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS?!!!!
    Exactly my thoughts. Shouldn't be alive to be shot.

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    Hummm, gunman stands right over victim, fires 16 shots and scores five hits. That's only a 31% hit rate. Not good. The shooter needs to go somewhere and practice hitting a target. He'd save a fortune in ammo costs .

    I agree with the above posts. Why is this oxygen thief out on the streets, in the first place?

    Oh well, it seems the rival gang did what the justice system didn't do. Meted out justice to someone who deserved it.

    Now, if he would just practice a little he'd be more efficient and economically responsible.

    New slogan for rival gang: "Cleaning up Chicago, one thug at a time."
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    Normal for chiraq....
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    Lol he made a dindu justice documentary.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Same as others, my first thoughts were "convicted of murder" and the oxygen sucking scum was still out on the streets. And worse, now instead of taxpayers paying for his incarceration, we are also paying for his medical bills! Let the convicted killer bleed to death! Or is he one of King Barack's sons and that is why they are trying to save his life after he killed someone else?

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    Perhaps the local Star Chamber works on this wise;
    Dindu 1 kills dindu 2, and is rewarded with a certain amount of time to live.
    When that time runs out, dindu 3 comes into the picture, eliminating dindu 1 to continue the circus ad infinitum.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    The commentary by TJ after the vid says everything we know but can't say
    w/o dissin someone and becoming a potential target by the thugs, the regular
    negros or the white msm media.
    While no one ever listens to me,
    I am constantly being told to be quiet.

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    be the heat..

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    Sixteen shot and hit only five times.

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    It's a damn shame the guy got shot. He was doing society a favor. Self extermination. He should have been given a Tommy gun with all the ammo that he can carry. Blast away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by l921428x View Post
    The commentary by TJ after the vid says everything we know but can't say
    w/o dissin someone and becoming a potential target by the thugs, the regular
    negros or the white msm media.
    just subscribed to his channel.

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