Friday, June 12, 2009

Gang? That's Silly! Just Silly!

  • Bulls star point guard Derrick Rose apologized Thursday for a photo of him flashing gang signs — a pose he now says was a bad joke.

    The photo, which recently surfaced online, shows the Englewood native flashing Gangster Disciples signs and an unidentified man behind him flashing signs of a rival gang. Rose said it was taken during his one year at University of Memphis.

    The NBA’s Rookie of the Year said in a statement he is “anti-gang, anti-drug and anti-violence” but used poor judgment.

    “Recently, a photo has been circulating on the Internet which appears to depict me flashing a gang sign,” Rose said in his statement. “This photo of me was taken at a party I attended in Memphis while I was in school there, and was meant as a joke…a bad one, I now admit.

    “I want to emphatically state, now and forever, that Derrick Rose is anti-gang, anti-drug, and anti-violence. I am not, nor have I ever been, affiliated with any gang and I can’t speak loudly enough against gang violence, and the things that gangs represent.

We aren't going to waste the bandwidth on the picture. It's at the link provided and scattered throughout the comment sections. But is anyone really surprised? Wasn't there a group of gang bangers going around robbing NBA affiliated persons just recently on the west side? Aren't there dozens of NBA players sporting gang and thug tattoos? The NFL isn't much better.

Our entertainment dollars go elsewhere.

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72 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

GO HAWKS!

6/12/2009 12:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

BLACKHAWKS BLACKHAWKS BLACKHAWKS>>>>>>>>>>now thats a sport worth following. NBA, MLB, and NFL are all tainted beyond repair

6/12/2009 12:17:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

See Cozzi should have used this defense and said his video was just a joke. Keep buying your kids this piece of shit gangbangers jersey to wear.

6/12/2009 12:21:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

FROM AN EARLIER POST:

Cmon, Have you ever worked in a fucked up district. If you have, then you know that all that say or display that they are in a gang are not. "False Flags, Wannabe's". Until you have a picture of him doing more than that, it is not worth commenting on. No body said anything about the Swimmer, smoking weed, why say something about Rose, and it is not even confrimed that he smoked weed, although possible.

6/10/2009 12:39:00 AM



Hey DUMBASS, That "Swimmer" lost out on a multi-million dollar endorsement and the County Sherriff was pursuing criminal charges against Phelps. It was all over the media. So, yes, we will say something about Rose: You want to act like a piece of shit gang-banger, don’t start cryin’ when you get treated like a piece of shit gang-banger.

6/10/2009 01:44:00 PM

Like I said:
"You want to act like a piece of shit gang-banger, don’t start cryin’ when you get treated like a piece of shit gang-banger."

6/12/2009 12:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What difference does it make with one more gang banging piece of shit whore on the streets of Chicago. Dis you expect anything else from this city.

6/12/2009 12:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

We all know that Rose did not write the statment attributed to him. How do we know? Some of the words have more than four letters.

6/12/2009 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What an AssHole.

6/12/2009 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If it was a joke, why be vague about the fact that he is actually flashing gang signs? You can't have it both ways.

6/12/2009 01:02:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Basketball: the sport of thugs. This picture is just more proof.

6/12/2009 01:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmm... I wonder if the GD's are going to appreciate being mocked and called a "joke" by Derrick Rose.

If I were Derrick, I'd hire some armed body guards... immediately!!

6/12/2009 01:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm done with NBA and NFL, became a big fan of NHL hockey the last few years because of the players. Way different attitude.

6/12/2009 01:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just another ghetto piece o' shit...the only difference is that he can play basketball.

How come you don't see NHL players in pictures like that? Hmmmm...I wonder.

6/12/2009 01:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The public is goofy. The gangs are out in the open and rising to top. The public should have an outcry and not tolerate any gang members any where. No matter what.

6/12/2009 02:40:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what about NHL gangbangers??? oh wait....nevermind

6/12/2009 03:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thank god for the NHL (National Honkey League), worst thing our players do is talk about exgirlfriends as sloppy seconds!
Best athletes on earth yet the least paid in regards to the 4 major U.S. sports...

6/12/2009 03:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rose is full of shit! He looks like he had many years of practice throwing up the pitch forks. I'm sure someone (agent or bulls boss) informed him about the statement he needed to make ASAP!!! What type of person thinks pretending to be a gang member is a funny joke? Sorry Rose, we aren't falling for your Mayor Daley "I didn't know" story. You are a gang banger and we will not watch the bulls anymore! F-U!!!

6/12/2009 03:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HMMM..I KNOW OF A FEW ENGLEWOOD COPPERS WHO MAY STILL HAVE CONTACT CARDS FROM ROSE BACK IN THE DAY FROM STREET STOPS. DID THEY LIST A GANG AFFILIATION? YOU BET!

6/12/2009 05:07:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Once a thug always a thug!

D Killa!

6/12/2009 07:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Showboating in the end zone was the biggest sign of decline in professional sports. The bragging, trash talking arrogance was the natural progression. Expose your kids to this and you see the acceptance we now have for the ghetto lifestyle. We spiral down from here.

I stopped watching professional sports years ago because of this. I'll continue to watch the professionals in hockey though.

6/12/2009 07:55:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who cares.....this doest affect us at all, we have bigger things to worry about......non story.

6/12/2009 08:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'd like to apologize to "my fans"

WTF?

That's why the Country,States, and cities are going to hell in a handbasket.

Because adults are worshiping these kids who have no life experience, education, manners or anything else. Just over inflated egos and a hightened sense of self importance.

"My fans"..Give me a break, you stupid gang banger wanna-be!

You may have money..but, you are still a nobody to me! I'm no fan. I worship no man.

6/12/2009 08:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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I saw this in the daily bulletin and had a good laugh. We, us, the CPD is going to give advice on how to promote and hire to other departments? That is some funny shit. That would be like having Kim jong il be the only election judge for the mayoral election in chicago. All legit.

6/12/2009 08:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck the bulls now we know why they call him D rose or is it C rose fuck it iam done

6/12/2009 08:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I stopped watching basketball a long time ago and can't stand what these pieces of shit have turned the game into, among other sports. People wonder why I follow golf.

6/12/2009 09:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow... Who is out to ruin the kid. Someone is pissed at him

6/12/2009 09:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I THINK I SAW ADAM BURISH FLASHING AN "INSANE FISH" SIGN AFTER ONE OF HIS FIGHT DURING A GAME AGINST THE KINGS LAST YEAR. GO BALCKHAWKS!!!!!

6/12/2009 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These are my brothers pants, ive heard it all before.

6/12/2009 09:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fuck all those pro athletes,these thugs make in a game what we make in a year,and look what we get paid to chase and lock up their friends.....

6/12/2009 10:03:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The NBA is a thug league. So is the NFL. Love the Hawks

6/12/2009 10:11:00 AM  
Blogger dan dan dan said...

can't wait until kaner gets in with the gd's...

6/12/2009 10:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

will not watch an NBA game filled with thugs gangbangers and egotistiical "i'm out for me me me me me" shit heads ...a good sport ruined !

6/12/2009 10:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Just another ghetto piece o' shit...the only difference is that he can play basketball.

If it weren't for the NBA we would have another very tall cab driver.
Just keepin' it real.

6/12/2009 10:45:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am so relieved to hear that Derrick Rose, formerly of Englewood, is not really involved with the gangs.

Now I can plunk my cash down for some Bulls season tickets and go to the United Center with my family to watch basketball games.


... and then I woke up, and checked my bank account. Phew, that was scary, I dreamed I put down hard earned money for, what, some fucking Bulls tickets to watch a bunch of thugs bang into each other? Damn glad it was only a bad dream. Won't ever happen. I'll send money to my ex before I give it to the Bulls organization.

6/12/2009 10:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

HMMM..I KNOW OF A FEW ENGLEWOOD COPPERS WHO MAY STILL HAVE CONTACT CARDS FROM ROSE BACK IN THE DAY FROM STREET STOPS. DID THEY LIST A GANG AFFILIATION? YOU BET!

6/12/2009 05:07:00 AM


Get some of those contact cards or copies, along with full event numbers, and send them to the Tribune.

6/12/2009 10:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HE'S FROM CHICAGO!!!!!

What do you expect?

6/12/2009 10:51:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's see. He had to lie and cheat to get out of high school. he had to lie and cheat to get out of college. Do you suppose he might lie and cheat to save his million dollar contract? Naaaaaaaaaa

6/12/2009 11:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What the NBA really needs is ................ more cow bells.

6/12/2009 12:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmm... grew up in englewood, and 'jokes' about being in a gang. yeah. ok. You are a banging pos that is good at basketball. nothing more, nothing less. Go Blackhawks!

6/12/2009 12:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you grow up in Chicago and are an accomplished athelete (Basketball) you can survive not being in a gang, gang leaders are smart enough to stay off the radar by leaving them alone. However even a Public League standout who cant score a 17 on the ACT knows you dont go out and promote one gang over another, unless you are a memeber of one. He knew what he was doing.

6/12/2009 01:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Growth and Development!! Englewood Stand Up!!

6/12/2009 01:28:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

who likes boreball anyway. Bangerball fans are knuckleheads.

6/12/2009 02:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What's your name?
Huh?

6/12/2009 04:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

he was just askin coach if he should shoot a 2 pointer!i stopped watching the nba after jordan retired. does the nba still have the pot rule? wonder why?

6/12/2009 05:23:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

does rose have an IR #???

6/12/2009 05:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
HMMM..I KNOW OF A FEW ENGLEWOOD COPPERS WHO MAY STILL HAVE CONTACT CARDS FROM ROSE BACK IN THE DAY FROM STREET STOPS. DID THEY LIST A GANG AFFILIATION? YOU BET!

6/12/2009 05:07:00 AM

##############################

Go do a search of the contact cards yourself.
Its on the CLEAR system.

6/12/2009 05:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Haven't watched a NBA game since 95, the league is full of gang bangers. Sorry DR I don't believe you were just kidding. But I don't blame these thugs, if a rich white guy wants to play me millions of dollars to play a game and knows I'm a thug I do it too. If the owners have no morals do you expect any less from their players.
Finally, I like how the black community justifies his actions, let that had been a police officer the whole department would crucified.

6/12/2009 05:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Quotes from R.P. MacMurphy......

"Ok Chief its an ol' Indian game called put the ball in the hole"

"Hurl the Ringer"

"Any of you nuts got the guts?"

"I must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this"

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO' NEST
Unit 376

6/12/2009 06:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Run him....

See if he got warrants...

6/12/2009 06:02:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

go bulls.....go bears.......

6/12/2009 07:11:00 PM  
Blogger Reverend Al said...

As a former Englewood Ranger, and before that a school teacher, I often wondered why these pin heads can memorize all kinds of complicated hand signals and gestures when they can't learn to read, write, or do math. I mean, they can pick out a hand signal in the dark, from 2 blocks away, talking about their momma, but can't read the bond slip telling them when to be in court. Where has society gone wrong?

6/12/2009 09:05:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What do you expect? What does he have for a good example and any kind of honest leadership to look up to? A theiving mayor and city council with mob ties, Illinois governors in the penitentiary, local reverends sporting gang tatoos and rubbing shoulders with local politicians. Why are you surprised? At least he has an excuse, he's just a kid.

6/12/2009 09:34:00 PM  
Blogger ANGRY PIG said...

Bend over boys and girls,Fox News is doing a segment on cops "Flirting instead of working". Tune in Monday night.They showed a few blurred pictures of obviously uniformed officers with women sitting on laps and arms around women.

6/12/2009 10:25:00 PM  
Blogger ANGRY PIG said...

The Bulls will protect him.You do not have to buy a product he endorses,this is where numb-nuts fucked up.Will he still get all them endorsements? You decide where you spend your cash.

6/12/2009 10:34:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey, it's not his fault, right? C'mon, give me a break!

He's a product of Englewood... It was just a matter of time before something surfaced portraying this millionaire piece of crap throwing gang signs. Wow, the NBA has drastically changed for the worse!

6/12/2009 11:44:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did FOX News film that while the mayor and his nephew were stealing six million dollars from our pension. 6,000,000,000.00 We need our money back. Every day that they keep the money they stole from us, they are stealing more because we are losing all that interest money. Why isn't FOX NEWS filming them and asking them to return our pension money?

6/13/2009 02:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

HMMM..I KNOW OF A FEW ENGLEWOOD COPPERS WHO MAY STILL HAVE CONTACT CARDS FROM ROSE BACK IN THE DAY FROM STREET STOPS. DID THEY LIST A GANG AFFILIATION? YOU BET!

6/12/2009 05:07:00 AM


Get some of those contact cards or copies, along with full event numbers, and send them to the Tribune.

6/12/2009 10:49:00 AM

Those political correct asses will not print the truth.

6/13/2009 02:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Give the kid a break, what a crazy, f'd up neighborhood to grow up in. You think he didn't know what signs to flash to save himself from getting his ass beat?

6/13/2009 02:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You think he didn't know what signs to flash to save himself from getting his ass beat?

6/13/2009 02:59:00 AM

Do you really think that he was he in danger of "getting his ass beat" when the picture was taken?

6/13/2009 11:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"It's not a gang; it's a club!"

6/13/2009 11:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

New-On-The-Job asks can my response to any CR # be: that it "was meant as a joke…a bad one, I now admit." ?

6/13/2009 11:18:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey DUMBASS, That "Swimmer" lost out on a multi-million dollar endorsement and the County Sherriff was pursuing criminal charges against Phelps. It was all over the media. So, yes, we will say something about Rose: You want to act like a piece of shit gang-banger, don’t start cryin’ when you get treated like a piece of shit gang-banger.

DIPSHIT I'm talking about on this post, if Rose loses endorsements for this, that is his fault, I don't care one way or another, but I don't remember anyone on this blog calling the "Swimmer" a dope addict, or any thing negative for that matter, just be fair. The "Swimmer" was not arrested so what was that even mentioned for. I don't think flashing a gang sign (IN POSSIBLE JEST), and taking a picture smoking a bong is much different. DRUGS, AND GANGS go hand in hand.

6/13/2009 11:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You adults can all go see the hawks. so you can see cavemen who skate on ice like in the ice age into walls, knock out teeth, and drag their woman by their hair. But, your kids want basketball jersey's. so what sport is going to last longer. Hockey will not be a lucrative sport until minorities start to play. Hockey is a caveman sport no thinking, just "HIT DA PUCK BRUNO".

6/13/2009 11:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You do not have to buy a product he endorses,this is where numb-nuts fucked up.Will he still get all them endorsements? You decide where you spend your cash.

I don't buy hawks thing, ony sox, bears, and bulls.

if you don't like the athelete don't buy his endorsed items, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE.

Right now GO SOX, even though they are losing, GO BEARS in September, then GO BULLS in November.

6/13/2009 11:52:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Give the kid a break, what a crazy, f'd up neighborhood to grow up in. You think he didn't know what signs to flash to save himself from getting his ass beat?

How dare you think that, the police will protect him in englewood from getting his ass whooped, while they are going from shots fired, to shots fired, and protecting their own ass from being shot at, and fought. But the police department would have saved poor derrick if he only would have asked. I THINK NOT, he needed to survive, at least one other person thinks.

6/13/2009 11:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Growth and Development!! Englewood Stand Up!!"

--6/12/2009 01:28:00 PM

With whose fucking money? That was a thriving commercial district fifty years ago -- as was South Shore, Avalon Park, etc.

What did you do?

Huh?

6/13/2009 02:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"As a former Englewood Ranger, and before that a school teacher, I often wondered why these pin heads can memorize all kinds of complicated hand signals and gestures when they can't learn to read, write, or do math. I mean, they can pick out a hand signal in the dark, from 2 blocks away, talking about their momma, but can't read the bond slip telling them when to be in court."

--6/12/2009 09:05:00 PM

Can't spell -- too busy transferring cell phone videos of hallway beatings onto Youtube, maintaining their Myspace pages, and keeping their gang web sites up to date.

yO!!! a SHoUt OuT!!! It ThE WoRd.

"Where has society gone wrong?"

* In subsidizing, eocouraging, and breeding a "permanent underclass" that wears $200 shoes and gives you a lot of shit backtalk too

* In allowing a bizarre, alien, minority-controlled destructive media that broadcasts and sells this "lifestyle package" to operate unchecked. Coppers' kids write on the walls of their rooms and have Bone and NWA on their Ipods too..."all the kids are doing it," says Mom, who then turns back to her cell phone conversation...

6/13/2009 02:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ANGRY PIG said...

Bend over boys and girls,Fox News is doing a segment on cops "Flirting instead of working". Tune in Monday night.They showed a few blurred pictures of obviously uniformed officers with women sitting on laps and arms around women.

6/12/2009 10:25:00 PM

Happened in 018, Fox has had camera crews setting up on Police trying, and apparently succeeding, to catch police officers doing anything wrong.

Watch yourselves out there and act like you are always on camera. News people and other police hating groups are trying to put cops in the jackpot.

6/13/2009 05:38:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I am not, nor have I ever been, affiliated with any gang and I can’t speak loudly enough against gang violence, and the things that gangs represent," said Rose, making gang signs as he squinted through the thick marijuana smoke...

6/14/2009 01:12:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

11:46, and I would bet that you can't ICE skate. It is not as easy as it appears, try it. Even I can bounce a ball while running back and forth, I could even throw said ball at a hoop. I quit looking at basketball when Jordan retired, and the thugs took over. Eff, rose, his own kind killed the last decent (and by this I mean not a thug) prospect out of Simion, Benjie Wilson!!!

6/14/2009 02:35:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've got photo's of our entire unit throwing pitchforks. Half of you guys are polioe chiefs across the country now.

6/14/2009 11:25:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"How come you don't see NHL players in pictures like that? Hmmmm...I wonder."

I wouldn't feel too smug about the NHL. It may be lilly white, but it's far from pristine. Lots of stories out there of steroid abuse, girlfriend/wife abuse, and problems with abuse of other drugs too. Hockey just started regaining its popularity in the last season.

6/14/2009 07:54:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

now we know why they call him D rose or C rose we all know he is a gangbanger fuck him and the bulls and fuck rich daleys to/ a fat sam the man to sorry

6/17/2009 10:18:00 AM  

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