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Crime life gang wars soundtrack6/2/2023 The homicide rate is up by about one-third year-to-date and about 60 percent over pre-pandemic levels. While official claims about gang culpability for street violence ought to be taken with a grain of salt - such figures are often pulled out of thin air - Young Slime Life, the gang Williams is alleged to lead, left a trail of very real bodies, the victims of a seven-year gang feud. But Atlanta today faces a rash of violence that distorts policies and murders good intentions. Previous Fulton County prosecutors have been reluctant to invoke the law, concerned about the abuses of mass incarceration and its power to stigmatize Black defendants. ![]() ![]() The entire city paused to take inventory on the massive gang arrest, with 27 other people - including a second superstar rapper, Sergio “Gunna” Kitchens. Atlanta’s city-contracted wrecker service diverted all its trucks to haul his many cars out of the rented property in Buckhead where police found him May 9. ![]() The jail, on Rice Street, shut down the intake of other arrestees to process him in. Jeffery Lamar Williams - the celebrated Atlanta trap recording artist better known as Young Thug - walked into Fulton County Jail in May to a standing ovation.
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