Criminals gone Wild
The latest DVD distributed assault to our societal consciousness is “Criminals Gone Wild.” And no, contrary to what you might expect given the title, this is not a compilation of violent thugs baring booty. No, this DVD shows violent, gun toting criminals in action, in real time. The viewer gets to see criminals robbing, beating and shooting their victims.
Yes, that’s right. A twisted filmmaker/entrepreneur has packaged scene after scene of poor black men attacking other poor black men and is selling the DVD online. Is this for real? How would the filmmaker get access to the crimes being or about to be committed? It turns out, the thugs call him.
Ousala (FD) Aleem has found a way to capitalize on violent city crime by filming felonies as they happen, slapping them on a DVD - and selling them for $26.98 apiece, shipping included.
The 25-year-old filmmaker from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, said he’s sold several thousand copies of “Criminals Gone Wild,” and with Christmas coming there’s even more demand for his movie mayhem.
“You try to make a product for the family, something that everybody can see, and nobody wants to buy it,” said Aleem, a self-taught filmmaker who used to host a local TV show called “FDTV.”
“The minute you come out with crime footage everybody wants to buy it. My pockets are fat now.”
Aleem said he has no problem finding thugs to film - the word is out. They call him. “It’s sad, but these people really don’t care, they just want to be on TV,” said Aleem. “I get phone calls from people who say, ‘Come over to my part of town if you want to see some real crime.’” N.Y. man films ‘Criminals Gone Wild’, Alison Gendar, Corky Siemaszko, NY Daily News
Aleem’s callousness is repulsive but not unexpected. His pursuit of “fat pockets” mirrors the sentiment of the criminals featured in ‘Criminals Gone Crazy,’ one who declares, “A dude can’t survive off a McDonald’s check, a Burger King check.” Clearly he doesn’t understand that working two jobs is an option. And he has no idea that maybe a Burger King check and a McDonald’s check combined might allow him to survive until he learned hot to work well enough to apply for something better. Like Aleem its gotta be “right now,” and at any cost.
“Criminals Gone Crazy” didn’t come out of nowhere, it’s a natural evolution from the seemingly ubiquitous inner city adoration of “Scarface,” the reprehensible “Grand Theft Auto” and “Bum Fights.” And of course there’s the ever popular practice of posting swarm style beating videos on Youtube.
And in an even more self-destructive twist (if that’s possible), many of the criminals appear without any disguise whatsoever - trashing police.
The NYPD is reviewing the DVD trailer posted on YouTube to see if Aleem’s footage is as real as he claims it is - and if there’s enough to warrant an investigation of the filmmaker.
Real or not, what Aleem put on the trailer is as raw as it comes. It opens with a driver being carjacked by a gunman, shows a man unloading his gun on a man lying prone on the ground, and features a closeup of yet another thug stating in a matter-of-fact way, “Yeah, I killed somebody, man.”
Another self-declared criminal with a blue bandanna covering the lower half of his face boasts that he has never done time, adding, “Which actually means I’m good at what I do.” Later, that same bandanna-wearing man is filmed on the street closing in on a victim and can be heard saying, “We’re about to rob this n—a live [on] TV.”
That piece of footage in particular outraged the Flatbush, Brooklyn, man who alerted the Daily News about Aleem’s shocking DVD. The man, who asked not to be named, claims he was the victim the bandanna-wearing bandit robbed last summer - and is convinced Aleem filmed the stickup on Church Ave.
“I know that was the guy who robbed me,” the victim said. “He showed the gun and he said, ‘Don’t say nothing. Don’t say nothing. Just hand it over.’ Across the street I seen the guy with the camera.”
The Flatbush man said that after the gunman made off with his money, he chased after the cameraman. “Then he starts walking fast and I said, ‘Excuse me.’”
“Then I thought about it and stopped because I live around here and I didn’t want it to get back to me,” said the man, who said he reported the robbery to cops. “I’ve been robbed twice before and the police didn’t do anything. I just don’t understand how people can do something like that, tape it and say, ‘Let’s put it on YouTube.’” N.Y. man films ‘Criminals Gone Wild’, Alison Gendar, Corky Siemaszko, NY Daily News
If this footage is real and if I know the NYPD, Aleem and some of his stars will soon get popped for criminal activity or at least as accessories. But now that this latest gate to Hell has been opened, some other knucklehead with dollar signs in his eyes will surely step right up to sell his people out for a buck.
Hat tip to Afronerd and Andrew Padula





























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