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Detroit Police Chief James Craig

(AP)

A gang member who police think is tied to a drug network has laid down the gauntlet. And he used social media to do it, issuing a public death threat on Detroit Police Chief James Craig.

"We need to clap him out," the unidentified gang member wrote on a popular social media platform, but police aren’t saying which one.

Police do know what the slang threat means. It means the gang is gunning for Craig. The term 'clap him out' is slang for shooting someone to death.

On Sunday, Craig issued a warning of his own:

"No way will we back off. You don't get to threaten a police chief," Craig wrote, according to published reports. "We will find you, and we're going to dismantle your criminal enterprise."

He signed the post, Detroit Police Chief James Craig.

The battle for Detroit has been joined. Authorities are not only going after the threatening gang member, they are hunting down those who supported his message on social media.

So what do you think of the gang member's social media death threat?



Did he just poke a stick into a law enforcement beehive?

And did the chief respond in the right way, going on social media and declaring that he was coming after the criminals?

Tell us you thoughts on this social media war of words in Detroit.