While millennials kill Applebee’s, Generation Z is keeping actual gangs alive

By Brendan Pringle

Published January 11, 2019 3:00pm ET

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While millennials kill Applebee’s, Generation Z is keeping actual gangs alive — Former New York Knick Carmelo Anthony, third from left, his wife La La Anthony, second from left, and an unidentified woman visit a memorial to Lesandro Guzman-Feliz near the site of his murder in the Bronx borough of New York, Monday, June 25, 2018. Several suspects are in custody in New Jersey and awaiting extradition in connection with last week's killing of the 15-year-old boy in the Bronx that has sparked community outrage. Police said that Guzman-Feliz's death was gang related. | (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Gang life will never be the same now that Generation Z is coming of age.

According to a new gang threat assessment published by the Texas Department of Public Safety, young gang members in the state are “relinquishing traditional gang structure and rules, opting for less organizational oversight and the freedom to serve in self-interested roles.”

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