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70s Bushwick Gang in Action

By Katarina Hybenova

70s Bushwick Gang in Action

70s Bushwick Gang in Action

By Katarina Hybenova

70s Bushwick Gang in Action

By Katarina Hybenova

Anybody else sometimes feels like Bushwick is getting too polished with all these new brunch places and luxurious condos being built? Anybody misses the old timey rough Bushwick of 1974? [Full-of-it allert ;-)] Look at this NBC News reportage from about teenage gang The Devil’s Rebels that used to operate in the infamous 83rd precinct, Brooklyn. The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera “with a special night vision lens” [aw!].  It captures a regular night of  The Devil’s Rebels in Bushwick getting drunk, some casual gang member stabbing, and a subsequent confrontation with the cops. It is noteworthy that the cops are being pretty rough as well- kicking a gang member’s ass, threatening to kill Wally Savage, and tossing a bike…

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