It doesn’t happen all the time, but recently a few people using hand signs have been mistaken for gangbangers, even the deaf and hearing impaired are not exempt. A basic guide for the rest of us to some of the better-known gang signs — so we can avoid them.

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In a case that has left investigators scratching their heads, Robert Jarell Neal, 22, of Burlington, N.C., has been arrested for stabbing a deaf man. Police believe that Neal misinterpreted sign language for gang signs, but this is just a theory at this point and in no way constitutes an excuse.

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In the FBI’s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment, fans of the horrorcore rap duo Insane Clown Posse, known as Juggalos, were labeled a “loosely-organized hybrid gang.” Now, the ICP plans to sue the FBI for giving its face-painting followers the potentially dangerous label.

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