Some US videographers are going into violent neighbourhoods to provide a news service for street gangs to tell their stories
In this Dec. 27, 2018, photo, video blogger Shawn Cotton, left, poses for a portrait with rapper Wayne Walker, who performs under the stage name 30 Rich, after Cotton interviewed Walker for his YouTube channel “Say Cheese TV,” in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dozens of gangland videographers in the US are risking their lives to provide a voice for communities routinely ignored by mainstream media. One of them is Shawn Cotton, who wears a bulletproof vest and carries a gun, in order to interview street gangs and rappers in high-crime areas, before posting the video onThe 28-year-old quit his $7-an-hour job at a Texas big-box store six years ago and has gone on to achieve financial success interviewing street-gang members and rappers in high-crime neighbourhoods across the US, then posting the videos on his popularCotton, who travels nationwide but considers Texas home, speaks about the...
Young gang members, eager to ascend a gang’s hierarchy, might shoot producers, not out of anger, but merely for the status that killing VIPs can confer.
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