This March On Washington May Not Get President Trump's Attention

You probably won’t hear President Donald Trump grumbling that the media won’t plan to cover an upcoming march to protest the FBI, as he predicted would happen when hundreds of thousands of abortion foes gathered at the National Mall for the 44th annual March for Life Friday. And he probably won’t say his inaugural crowd was larger, or that ICP can marshal more fans than last weekend’s Women’s March. At least we don’t think he will.

It’s OK. It’s a safe assumption the president isn’t a Juggalo, as the fans of the Detroit horror rappers Insane Clown Posse are known. The duo and their fans are planning a huge rally on Sept. 16 at the Lincoln Memorial, where they’ll protest the Juggalos’ classification by the FBI as a gang.

The FBI branded the Juggalos a “loosely organized hybrid gang” in its 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment report. Psychopathic Records, ICP frontmen Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope’s label, has sued the FBI and Justice Department, but the lawsuit was recently dismissed, so they’re going to the court of last resort, the people.

“We have tried to use the American judicial system to achieve justice and we failed,” Insane Clown Posse said in a statement on a new website for the Juggalo March on Washington, which went live Wednesday. “So on Saturday, September 16, 2017, we are taking out fight to the streets. Literally.”

ICP said the gang classification “has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of people subjected to various forms of discrimination, harassment, and profiling simply for identifying as a Juggalo.”

On the website, the group said testimony gathered by lawyers showed fans who have lost custody of their children and their jobs, been denied access into the armed forces and “the most common consequence — being officially labeled as a gang member by law enforcement agencies for wearing Juggalo related clothing or brandishing one or more Juggalo tattoos.”

“A simple traffic stop for a broken tail light can — and has — resulted in an otherwise law-abiding, hard-working, taxpaying citizen being put on a local or state list of gang members simply for displaying their Juggalo pride,” the group said. “Being labeled a gang member can be a permanent stain on an individual’s life, since it will come up in a simple background check every single time.”

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