So easy to find, videos with gun threats, crime and drugs
TYPING the names of the two gangs into YouTube opens up a sordid world of rap videos promoting gun crime, violence and drugs.
Woodgrange E7 and Beckton E6 have shared videos online that have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and can be easily found by anyone with access to the internet. It is possible Corey Junior Davis’s killer watched some of the clips.
In the videos gang members, who appear to be teenagers and men in their 20s, can be seen smoking cigarettes and marijuana and drinking alcohol in the streets. They also make vile hand gestures including ones resembling punching and shooting.
Chillingly, one video features a clip from a film showing a man with a bandage around his head who claims to have been shot in the head. Another
‘I’m shooting to kill’
clip which appears to have been uploaded by the E6 group, includes the lyrics: ‘Spent cold nights in a cell… I’ve seen a couple youths get gunned.’ The lyrics ‘I beg a young boy come try me’ also feature, as well as a gang member posing as if shooting a gun.
Another video, thought to be by the same group, show men with their faces partially covered rapping the words: ‘Boom, boom, boom like who now’.
One clip, seemingly created by the rival Woodgrange gang which jas been viewed over 280,000 times, begins with a shot from a helicopter of wearing masks, dark jackets police on the street below, and gloves rapping to the with the commentary: ‘ Four camera. A gunshot hole then officers arrived with minutes appears in the screen while of the shooting’. they rap ‘I’m shooting to kill’
The screen cuts to men and ‘We don’t give a toss about law’. In a similar video, which has racked up 107,000 views, gang members boast about ‘holding n***** to ransom’.
Some videos have attracted angry responses. On one, a rival wrote: ‘F*** Woodgrange you p******. We will see who the real dons of the east are.’
Another wrote: ‘You know you wouldn’t say s*** to us in real life…give me your address.’