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Title: Police rip rap video on Rialto (Police Dept Tries Unsuccessfully to get youtube to yank video from internet)
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URL Source: http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_8386819
Published: Feb 27, 2008
Author: Jason Pesick
Post Date: 2008-03-01 23:34:00 by Artisan
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Views: 243
Comments: 11
Police rip rap video on Rialto By Jason Pesick, Staff Writer Article Created: 02/27/2008 10:20:29 PM PST RIALTO - A rap music video on YouTube.com has become the talk of the town. Residents and the police chief were so offended by the video, which had been viewed more than 26,000 times as of Wednesday afternoon, that they are trying to convince the popular video-sharing Web site YouTube to take it down. But the rapper featured in the video said he's just expressing what he's experienced in the city. "I'm just really representing how I grew up," said the rapper, "Cam-Capone," who would not provide his real name. Cam-Capone, 30, and his crew perform the song "Rialto City," which is full of profanity, gang references and includes the group drinking alcohol in public, holding guns and pointing them at the camera. At one point, the group is sitting on the sign at Birdsall Park, right next to Carter High School. The Police Department first learned of the video on Feb. 4, Police Chief Mark Kling wrote in an e-mail to members of the community. "Clearly this video steps over the line and promotes the violent nature of gangs," he wrote to YouTube in an effort to convince the Google-owned site to take down the video. YouTube responded to the police chief by saying the video does not appear to violate its terms of use. Kling and other residents are encouraging others in the community to complain to YouTube. A YouTube spokeswoman said the site doesn't comment on individual videos. Growing up in Rialto, where he graduated from Eisenhower High School, Cam-Capone said he was a member of a gang. "I'm still from there. I'm always going to be from there," he said when asked if he was still in the gang. He described it as a group members join for life. Cam-Capone, whose album is called "Ridin High/909 Ways to Die," said he's performed in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado and will have a booth in May at a lowrider auto magazine show at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino. He wouldn't say whether the guns in the video are real, but he said the video doesn't hurt anyone. "I mean I'm really not doing anything against the law. I've got freedom of speech, and I can say what I want to say," the Rialto resident said. Lt. Joe Cirilo, a Police Department spokesman, said he doesn't know if anything illegal took place in the video and that he's not sure if the guns in it are real. He called the video "absolutely disturbing." "It misrepresents this city and the good citizens that live here," he said. He tried to minimize the impact of the video, saying "We don't want to give them the attention that they want." Janis Strong, the president of the North Rialto Little League, said she was shocked by the video. The league's snack bar at Birdsall Park was robbed last week, and she called for more vigilance. "Everybody just needs to be more aware of what's going on," she said. Cam-Capone said he thinks the city is becoming a better place to live and he doesn't want to encourage gang activity or violence. When asked what he would say to people in the city who are upset by the video, he said: "I would say just enjoy it. It's good music. It is what it is."
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#1. To: All (#0)
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" Send the whole lot of them to Basra to fight the sunnis. There they can Mf all they feel like.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" .
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him" Gangsters breed gangsters. The gangsters on Wall Street with their pinstripe suits who steal everything they can get their greedy hands on have set the example, the gangsters in the White House who lie about everything and hand multi-billion dollar "no-bid" contracts to their cronies show the rest of the nation how to REALLY do business. Corruption breeds corruption, the fish rots from the head down. These guys are just doing a bad impression of corporate gangsters and banksters. All they really need to do to gain social acceptability would be to clean up their language and buy expensive suits.
here is the video referred to in the article
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#2. To: Artisan (#1)
#3. To: All (#1)
(Edited)
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#4. To: tom007 (#2)
 | Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#5. To: Elliott Jackalope, tom007 (#4)
the bigger issue is not their portrayed lifestyle but the fact that the state tried to use it's power to supress their speech.
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#6. To: Artisan, all (#5) (Edited)
"every cop in the hood is a crook" People can say whatever they wish about the rap crap, but in truth it is a very powerful means of communicating the pulse and perception of people existing in a violent world with limited options. This culture is growing rapidly and is without conscience regarding violence against everyone occupying a higher place in society and perceived as the enemy. This group is extended privileges within the criminal justice system by their captors because they are feared. They are supported by their own when incarcerated and have means of communicating with each other throughout the many jails and prisons they live in, by hand signals etc., and view incarceration as part and parcel of the cost of "doing business" in the world they live in. It wasn't one of these Mexican gangs that gunned down Kennedy in Dallas, or the kids at WACO, or Sammy Weaver in Idaho. Every Cop in the Hood is a crook".
to supress their speech.
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived. ... Lysander Spooner
#7. To: Artisan (#0)
A white rapper hangin with the Vatos! And, THAT is why after 6 years in Los Angeles we were gone within two weeks of finding out that we were "in the family way"! No way my son was going to hang out and be a wigger or a Wexican!
#8. To: HOUNDDAWG (#7)
congratulations on your new arrival. what region did you flee to?
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#9. To: noone222 (#6)
Well said. I think there is possibility to get this rebellion and focus it against a true enemy,. do you think that is possible?
It wasn't one of these Mexican gangs that gunned down Kennedy in Dallas, or the kids at WACO, or Sammy Weaver in Idaho. Every Cop in the Hood is a crook".
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#10. To: Artisan (#9)
Maybe, when the thresh-hold of pain gets high enough.
focus it against a true enemy,. do you think that is possible?
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived. ... Lysander Spooner
#11. To: Artisan (#8)
Thank you. The "new arrival" is 22 yrs old now and we live in Delaware.
congratulations on your new arrival. what region did you flee to?
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