Taquan Jones, an alleged member of Brownsville’s notorious Choo gang, was indicted in 2020 and posted the video on social media in March, officials said.
The three-minute video, titled “NYC’s Boldest,” opens with what appears to be a brawl among several men inside a cell and then cuts to a group of inmates holding large chards of glass as if they were knives.who is at times clad in an orange jail uniform.
It’s not clear when the video, which was posted on YouTube and Instagram, was shot because Jones has been in and out of the jail and is now awaiting sentencing on multiple cases in Brooklyn and Queens, officials said. “He got shot in the chest, he ran out of breath then fell on his neck,” Jones, known as Tay627, says in one verse.“This has to go viral — send the song,” a user with the handle @rapstar_viral wrote on Instagram.“Does it really matter how camaras or whatever got in there.. how bout the homie making HISTORY…free the gods,” @onlyxmee wrote.YouTube
“It’s embarrassing first and foremost,” the source continued. “ Louis Molina should be held accountable. That is unacceptable. How do they make the video and then get it posted to YouTube? There’s cameras all over Rikers. How did that get out?”
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