'Snitch' factor frustrates police in crime-hit Mpls. neighborhoods

On the streets of north Minneapolis, word travels fast.

So when the lawyer for a member of the Taliban street gang let it slip that another gang member was cooperating with police and the FBI, former friends soon started calling him by a different name online: “Snitch.”

A surreptitious recording of the exchange was later posted on Facebook, where people encouraged others to “like and share” the post. One user said someone needed to snipe the snitch, and he was on his way to the shooting range for target practice. “He got the secrets [sic] service protection?” his post read.

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