Comment on Gang initiations and NPR by Joseph Shephard

Who determines the reality of gang initiations? Will it be the victim in this case or the couch potatoes at Snopes who google for the answers they want? A real investigation would pull up the trial transcripts which at the moment I can’t find but then again that might be a special skill or might require getting past a paywall. I had a family member who was killed by a gang member who was going through an initiation process like this. I am not sure if the victim was truly random or known but t...