designated the juggalos a gang. but you know the f.b.i. as well as the other agencies within the d.o.j. have a tough job across the country in terms of trying to identify real gangs and deal with real gang problems and a lot of those games are the kind of games that you would think of like the bloods the crips days like that there are common knowledge and household names and so what they have done and what we would say their approach is is to go hard into the day and so far that they have branded a group of music fans as a gang the bottom line is they've been so zealous in their law enforcement activity that they sort of keep going past the line and then far across the line till they're way out at the point where they're just dealing with music fans so interesting well one juggalo brandon bradley is a plaintiff in this case and i want to take a listen to what he said yesterday at a press conference. i'm a peaceful person trying to live my life right. now or imagine being in a situation where be with rahm again just because i'm a teacher. t

the gathering of the juggalos. in southern illinois.10,000 people, and heaps of trouble. there have been several deaths in recent years, and dozens of arrests. according to theel i i will state police. >> we're the most hated band, because people hate and people fear what they don't understand. you know? and there's a lot more to us than what you see on the surface. or even what you hear listening to just one of our songs, you know? >> reporter: those songs are often oh profanity-laced fictional narratives that the band says has an underlying positive message. but the fbi disagrees. in 2011, the juggalos ended up on the national gang threat assessment, as, quote oh, a loosely organized hybrid gang. quote, a small number of jug lows are forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity, the fbi says. >> let me tell you something about juggalos, they're human beings, they're not neanderthals. you don't have to tell them that. you know what i'm saying? they know not to go out and murder somebody because of our

early on when this case started they coined me the juggalo lawyer. there are several police officers i've interviewed there are several people who you know work, your normal 9:00 to 5:00 job. there's professors, there's doctors. so i guess we're all part of some loosely organized hybrid gang according to the fbi and that's what we're trying oget to the bottom and change. >> the obvious question is how do you designate hundreds of thousands of people of being part of a gang for liking a band? >> that's a good question. we're very perplexed by it. the first lawsuit that we filed back in 2012 was because we did it exactly a freedom of information request to find that out. what we finally got after a lot of hard work was stuff that was totally unrelated, to anything that would be considered an organized criminal gang. and really, what we found was, there was certain crimes, random crimes around the country with people who happen to be wearing an icpt shirt or have an icp logo on their myspace page and police said they were part of this group and that's w

deadheads are all known as devout followers of a specific music icon but i do you ever heard of juggalos they're the followers of the rap duo insane clown posse a group that's making waves for filing a lawsuit against the f.b.i. find out why they're for the pair to go to court coming up. and it's a spy connection that goes beyond the silver screen a new book reveals how the cia and hollywood are connected with favors being traded between the two more on that later in the show.

losen dad heads are all known as devout followers of a specific music icon but if you ever heard of juggalos they're the followers of the rab duo insane clown posse a group that's making waves for filing a lawsuit against the f.b.i. find out why they're prepared to go to court coming up. and it's a spine connection that goes beyond the silver screen a new book reveals how the cia and hollywood are connected with favors being traded between the two more on that later in the show.

quote, a small number of juggalos are forming more organized subsets. >> they are not neandrathals.murder someone because of our music. >> reporter: now the members of the gangs have partnered with the aclu to sue the fbi saying that designation has led to police harassment and denial of employment. they are aware of the lawsuit but decline to comment on the pending litigation. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i know throw you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> chris christie drops the swagger saying he's humiliated and embarrassed, spending two hours for apologizing for a city put in gridlock. mayor mark sokolich will join us live for a situation room interview. >>> plus, a rather bizarre

deadheads are all known as devout followers of a specific music icon but have you ever heard of juggalos they're the followers of a raft group called insane clown posse a group that's making waves for filing a lawsuit against the f.b.i. find out why they're prepared to go to court coming up. and it's a spy connection that goes beyond the silver screen a new book reveals how the cia and hollywood are connected with favors being traded between the two more on that later in the show.