The Atlanta Objective: Gangs By The Numbers

Blaming a rise in violence on gang activity is usually political theater meant to target scary Black men. The RICO indictment of YFN Lucci may be different.

(NOTE: An editing error moved a transitional paragraph between Young Thug bailing out some friends and the start of description of the YFN case. Plainly, Thug didn’t bail out a bunch of YFN rappers. The corrected story follows.)

The indictment of Rayshawn Bennett — YFN Lucci — on racketeering charges begins to shed some light on things. (For those of yo…