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| quote: | Lights, Camera … Murder?
Ominous video of a drive-by shooting circulating on the Internet proves to be as real as a Hollywood movie
~ By MARK CROMER ~
~ Web Evidence or showbiz? The making of A drive-by ~
It appears to be an urban snuff film, L.A. gangster-style.
Three black male thugs in an SUV crawling down a graffiti-tagged side-street spot a rival gang member pausing to light a cigarette on the sidewalk. With startling swiftness they pull alongside him shouting “You want a cigarette, mutha …?” and open fire with two semiautomatic handguns.
As the victim hits the ground, the gunman in the front seat leaps from the vehicle and empties his clip into the dying man. As he jumps back into the SUV, the driver proclaims gleefully “Let’s roll, nigga! Let’s roll!”
Amid the escalating national debate over hyper-violent video games and the avalanche of gratuitous bloodletting in film and television, the chilling 20-second video clip has ironically offered gritty ammunition to both sides of the cultural divide.
It came to my attention last week, when a cop asked me over beers if I had seen the “drive-by video” that had just popped up on the Internet. He’d seen it at work. “It’s a trip, the young blood in the back seat looks nervous, and seems to aim and fire haphazardly, as if he is hoping to miss the dude,” my friend said. “The O.G. up front is hardcore, ready to put some work in.”
I went home and found the video at www.daxmontana.net/MP3/compton-ca.mpg. Having covered crime for a variety of newspapers in greater Los Angeles for almost two decades, I was caught by what appeared to be a brutal gang murder.
Looks like I am not the only one. As I started calling various police sources and sending the link of the clip to journalist colleagues, the consensus was the shooting was the real deal. Several officers told me the video had been discussed during briefings. Two officers who evaluated the clip numerous times pointed to a variety of nuance that led them to believe the video was of a real shooting, including what appear to be sparks from the bullets striking the sidewalk.
An online forum for the Nation of Riflemen – a group dedicated to “turning America back into a nation of riflemen, one citizen at a time” – heralds the video clip as proof positive that banning assault rifles doesn’t prevent crime or casualties. One online post claimed the tape had been uncovered by LAPD while serving a search warrant during a homicide investigation. The shooting had purportedly occurred on the streets of Compton.
Detective Peter Hecht, who works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Operation Safe Streets bureau at the Compton station, said he first saw the video months ago. “All the gang investigators looked at it and we don’t think it is Compton,” Hecht said. “On the other hand, we can’t rule it out. We have lots of gangs and lots of gang shootings in Compton, 49 gang-related homicides so far this year.”
Fortunately for Hecht, the residents of Compton, and the rest of us, this video doesn’t depict another wanton act of slaughter by L.A. gang members. Deputy Victor Zavala, who works under the Department of Homeland Security division of LASD, determined the video clip may depict Compton, but was in fact made by Hollywood. Helmed by director Adam Ripp, the shooting is a scene from the film Gang Tapes, a straight-to-DVD release from Lions Gate Films in 2002.
Billed as a “coming of rage” story, the movie is essentially an urban play off The Blair Witch Project, with gang members using a stolen video camera to document their lives and crimes. The movie’s cover jacket quotes The New York Times as heralding the film as “engrossing” and Daily Variety calling it “relentless.” But Ripp’s film is getting the ultimate thumbs up from cops and civilians alike: “Real.”
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.p...95&IssueNum=115
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | | nah i meant fake as in a movie, but damn i thought this was like a real nigga done robbed some pplz n usin a stolen videocamera but bout when that got to where dey was cookin and on the block pushin the police rode up n made that look supa stupid like wtf and when the lil boy was playin with the camera alone i was like dayum man i hope lil homie dont do no nasty while my girl watchin den this muthaa a hoe and got her panties smellin on dem n i was like heeeeeeell naaaaaaaah but yea, on the real this kinda lame cuz of dem parts i mentioned and if they shot it like a real movie and say jus the camera, prolly woulda been hotta but dats just my 25 cent on dis |
wtf! he needs to learn to type |
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| hrt_mike17 |
i dont think its real.. the gun shots dont sync up with the "light" from the gun.. when he got out of the car to shoot the guy, the wall lit up like twice, yet he shot like 5 times.. lol
also, i didnt see any recoil, little to none |
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| trunks1022 |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
wtf! he needs to learn to type |
in da ghetto, they offer a quarter for your thoughts, and not two pennies :wtf: |
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Originally posted by hrt_mike17
i dont think its real.. the gun shots dont sync up with the "light" from the gun.. when he got out of the car to shoot the guy, the wall lit up like twice, yet he shot like 5 times.. lol
also, i didnt see any recoil, little to none |
i see you just completely skipped over my entire post |
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| stamper |
Man crazy stuff.
Only in America. :rolleyes: |
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| hrt_mike17 |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
i see you just completely skipped over my entire post |
yes i did. was too long to read.. and i didnt care what you had to say.. lmfao.. Just kiddin on the last part, but i really didnt feel like readin that whole thing. |
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