Camouflage Clothes Banned at Georgia High School Over Gang Activity

Camouflage Clothing Banned A Georgia High School Over Alleged Gang Activity

Apparently gangs have given up on colors and moved on to patterns. Houndstooth, polka dots, and plaids are about to be GANGSTA!

Via Ledger-Enquirer

They are among the new policies and procedures Jordan High School implemented Monday “to ensure the orderly operation of school and the safety of everyone on campus,” principal Alton White told parents and guardians in a letter.

According to the letter, the Columbus Police Department says “at least one gang in this area” wears the camouflage pattern as its colors.

“To keep students safe and to make sure no one is mistaken as a gang member,” White wrote, “camouflage clothing or paraphernalia of any kind will not be allowed on campus unless it is part of the uniform for an official school sponsored activity such as JROTC.”

Sounds fair enough. Keep kids safe. Nothing wrong with that. However…

Asked what prompted the policy changes, White said, “We have seen an increase in some discipline issues. I don’t have proof that they are gang related, but it’s my feeling they are.”

No proof? Surely the local police must have some information about this gang…

Sgt. Roderick Graham, the officer in charge of the Criminal Intelligence Unit at the Columbus Police Department, confirmed that a gang in the city known as the “Taliban” has its members wear camouflage clothing, but whether they operate in the Jordan area, he said, “I cannot tell you.”

The “Taliban” gang, which police identified in Columbus “probably four years ago,” Graham said, is one of five gangs his unit tracks, although he prefers to call them “individuals involved in high-risk behavior.”

Asked to describe the trend around Jordan’s campus, Graham said, “There is nothing to say that there is an increase in gang activity in any one particular area. That would be a false statement. But what has increased is the police department’s awareness of activity in Columbus that some refer to as street gangs.”

Sounds like there are several men wearing camo and doing crimes and/or causing mischief. That constitute a “gang” nowadays? If so, Air Jordans BEEN had a gang. God knows how many brothas there are running around together wearing the same pair of sneakers.

SMH.

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