Wanted fugitive Christopher “Direct D” Ruff went live from his trailer in Arizona on Sunday morning in order to read portions of e-mails from a newly granted records request for all e-mails that mentioned his name for the past few years.
Ruff thanked his viewers for watching and supporting him during his campaign to have the records requests granted and warned them that some of their e-mails were included in the records dump. Because of that, he asked them to be respectful and kind when calling or contacting government officials on his behalf as he did not want them to face retaliation for their actions.
The YouTuber addressed the recent controversy over allegations that he was a member of the Ayran Brotherhood. Ruff found documents in his randomly chosen stack of e-mails that contained speculation that he was indeed a member of the Ayran Brotherhood prison gang and planned, but not carried out, attempts to check his tattoos to prove his gang affiliation.
Ruff contended in this and in previous videos that federal agencies were promoting the idea that he was a member of the gang, without proof, in order to establish a case for federal tracking as the gang has been classified as a domestic terrorist group.
The YouTuber has been concerned about this alleged connection that he went so far as to contact a former prison guard who was working when Ruff was incarcerated to demand to know why the guard did not clear Ruff’s record of the accusation when he had the opportunity to do so.
The fugitive also found records of inquiries into an incident where he claimed that agents were surveilling him from a helicopter. One of the e-mails denied the federal agents were doing so, while another asked to double check if the agents were actually doing so before responding to a records request by Ruff.
Based on the new e-mails, Ruff promised that he would be re-releasing old videos with updates based on the information he received in the e-mails and will be eventually releasing all of the documents for his viewers to read.
