Our agency (mid-sized PD) has had no such reports. We do constantly see reports on the web where gangs are targeting _____________ (fill in the blank). This is probably the most current version of the 'initiation target' spoof.
Yep, for many years now there have been all kinds of "reports" about the "latest and greatest" gang initiation ritual. Everything from gangs targeting women in Wal-Mart parking lots, to knocking on random doors and shooting whomever answers the door, to posing as stranded motorists to then kill whomever stops to help them, etc etc etc. This is probably the next in the series of bogus reports.
Former colleagues i checked with have no knowledge of this. (And if it were true, there is no way it could have been kept out of the public eye).
Those gangs which do include murder or assault as part of the inititation process typicaly identify victims who are members of rival gangs or people who are perceived to have wronged the gang (informants, ex's, etc). They do not want to "waste" a hit on something as unimportant as a football official.
