Refusing ‘mission’ can mean death, ex-gangster testifies | Winnipeg | News | Winnipeg Sun: "In the violent world of inner-city gangs, refusing to carry out orders can mean death at the hands of your own gang brothers, jurors were told Monday.
“When these guys tell you to do something you do it,” Rodney Flett testified Monday.
The former Indian Posse member was testifying at the trial of two men accused of shooting and killing drug dealer and reputed Manitoba Warrior Thomas Roy (T. T.) Phillips outside a Magnus Street crack house in March 2007.
The two accused were 16 and 17, respectively, at the time of the killing and cannot be identified.
Flett said he and the older accused were “shooting the s---” when he admitted to the killing, claiming it was ordered by a high-ranking gang member.
“He said (the gangster) ordered them to do it, that this Warrior was cutting in on their crack sales in the neighbourhood,” Flett said. “He said they shot him in the head and chest.” Flett said he was at a gang “safe house” shortly after the killing when the high-ranking gangster told him “these little bros did a mission.”
Flett said he participated in gang-ordered “missions” of his own, including shooting up a house and critically wounding a rival gangster.
Refusing a mission can have violent repercussions, including a severe beating “or worst-case scenario, you get killed,” Flett said."
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