Insane Clown Posse, together with four of their fans, are gearing up to sue the FBI and the Department of Justice, demanding that the law enforcing agencies remove the fanbase monicker "Juggalos" from their list of gang members.
"Organized crime is by no means part of the Juggalo culture," said the complaint forwarded by the horrorcore-rap duo to a Detroit federal court this morning.
The lawsuit came after it was discovered that "Juggalos" had been classified by the FBI's National Gang Intelligence Center as "a loosely-organized hybrid gang," one with several affiliations.
Attorneys for the ACLU and ICP insist that the profiling of "Juggalos" does not have enough reasonable suspicion of gang affiliation. In relation to this, the "unconstitutionally vague" classification has caused discouraged majority of these groups from expressing themselves and denied them rightful protection against unreasonable searches.
"The FBI had the impact they wanted: they scared people away from attending concerts and from affiliating together for the purpose of listening to music," said lawyer Saura Sahu who is assisting the ACLU in Michigan in a magazine interview.
"We don't fit in anywhere," Violent J, one half of Insane Clown Posse, shared in the same interview with Rolling Stone magazine. "And when people don't understand you, people fear you. All we're trying to do is be like the Stephen King of music. We like to tell horror stories."
The horrorcore-rap duo's preparation for legal battle started in 2013, when their lawyer Howard Hertz offered to represent the four Juggalos. The lawsuit details the 2012 complaint made by 2012 which alleged that the FBI had violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to provide proper documentation justifying its gang designation, which remains pending to date.
Attorney Sahu added that none of the information revealed by the FBI displayed any significant connection between any significant percentage of the Juggalos and the kind of criminal behaviors that the Department of Justic is supposed to focusing on through these gang efforts.
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