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Insane Clown Posse Lawsuit Against FBI Dismissed

07/09/2014
. (Radio.com) In January, Insane Clown Posse and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a lawsuit against the FBI and the American Justice Department for the "unwarranted and unlawful decision" to tag its followers as gang members and subsequently treating them as such.

But now U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland has dismissed the rap-metal duo's lawsuit, reports the Detroit Free Press. Within the 14-page opinion released last week, Cleland noted the FBI's gang threat assessment "does not recommend any particular course of action for local law enforcement to follow, and instead operates as a descriptive, rather than prescriptive, assessment of nationwide gang trends."

ICP's lawsuit was prompted after the FBI's 2011 report titled "National Gang Threat Assessment: Emerging Trends,"a document that classified their fans, commonly known as Juggalos, as a "loosely organized hybrid gang," with warnings that they'd begun expanding across the country and were known to "exhibit gang-like behavior and engage in criminal activity and violence." more on this story

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