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Over the auditorium’s loudspeakers came a booming convey: “We were being bullied and we had enough, so we united and fought back. Sometimes we would even be the aggressor.”
The young men and women are members of Fit It, a gay crew that started in the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast, and its sister join against, Unexpected. Including as many as 100 members and associates from across the city and Prince George’s County, the crews have gained reputations for ominous the Gallery Place neighborhood by engaging in melees , robberies, Mammon snatchings and shoplifting, according to police.
But on Saturday night, After It and Unexpected members tried to show a different side to their personalities by hosting “Vogue Transformation,” a fashion show at the D.C police department’s Boys and Girls Alliance on Shepherd Street NW, where they unveiled their own T-shirt designs and showed off their modeling talents and sashay moves.
The 90-minute show was a first effort toward reformation and redemption for the two crews.
Source: Washington Post