Residents of a Brooklyn housing complex are blasting a pair of patrol cops for blaring a controversial rap song from their squad car and antagonizing gang members in the neighborhood.
Video posted this month on YouTube and Facebook shows a uniformed officer and a sergeant outside Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville in a police SUV that is blaring the song “Folk in the Trunk,” described by online listeners as a diss track against a gang named Folk Nation.
The Crips affiliate is also known as Folk — for Forever Over Latin Kings — and has a significant presence at the houses, sources said. The profane song advocates killing members of the Folk Nation gang.
“It’s like playing ‘Cop Killer”’outside a precinct,” a source said.
In the video of the police car, one of the officers appears to be smiling.
It is not clear when the video was taken, but it generated immediate outrage.
“You hear that?” one incredulous listener says. “You hear that song?”
Resident Tracy McGee said she was offended by the video.
“We got kids here in the neighborhood and that’s not something they should be listening to,” McGee said. “It’s disorderly conduct. I think some things can be used to ease tension, but not that.”
“I find it offensive especially with the trials and tribulations we have been through with the police,” another resident said. “The cops are antagonizing people, probably trying to get them to do something, get a reaction.”
For the NYPD, the video is the second rap-related incident in a week.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/ny-metro-folk-nypd-rap-gang-20190220-story.html
Video posted this month on YouTube and Facebook shows a uniformed officer and a sergeant outside Marcus Garvey Village in Brownsville in a police SUV that is blaring the song “Folk in the Trunk,” described by online listeners as a diss track against a gang named Folk Nation.
The Crips affiliate is also known as Folk — for Forever Over Latin Kings — and has a significant presence at the houses, sources said. The profane song advocates killing members of the Folk Nation gang.
“It’s like playing ‘Cop Killer”’outside a precinct,” a source said.
In the video of the police car, one of the officers appears to be smiling.
It is not clear when the video was taken, but it generated immediate outrage.
“You hear that?” one incredulous listener says. “You hear that song?”
Resident Tracy McGee said she was offended by the video.
“We got kids here in the neighborhood and that’s not something they should be listening to,” McGee said. “It’s disorderly conduct. I think some things can be used to ease tension, but not that.”
“I find it offensive especially with the trials and tribulations we have been through with the police,” another resident said. “The cops are antagonizing people, probably trying to get them to do something, get a reaction.”
For the NYPD, the video is the second rap-related incident in a week.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/ny-metro-folk-nypd-rap-gang-20190220-story.html
