Syracuse Mayor Apparently Has No Idea What “Stop Snitching” Means

mbart | July 12, 2007 3:22 am

Though commenters have helpfully added Dio, Masters of Reality, and Ra Ra Riot to my recitation of Syracuse’s musical offspring, it’s notable that all but the last made their names outside the city. It feels very cut off here, an impression only reinforced by reading the local alt-weekly, a New Times franchise, and noticing that it contains no national music coverage whatsoever. On the other hand, it seems that a) people are making Stop Snitching DVDs in Syracuse, and b) getting the mayor to appear in them:

That’s the mayor, right at the beginning. Apparently the director was an intern at City Hall, and asked for an endorsement, and, well, he got one.

And now he’s been shot through the wrist.

The Syracuse man who duped Mayor Matt Driscoll into endorsing a video filled with drugs, sex and violence, was shot in the wrist Sunday…

Williams, a former city intern, asked Driscoll to do an on-camera endorsement for Constantly Under Surveillance Everywhere Vol. II. Williams is one of the producers of the video.

In it, groups of young men rap about the glories of the gang lifestyle and condemn those who give information to the police.

Video Producer Shot in Wrist [Syracuse Post-Standard] (2nd item)

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