And what kind of gangs does he say they are?
Anne Cryer was talking about her own actual experience.
It was a testimony.

We were all outraged at the exposures about a small minority of priests sexually abusing children.
We would all be outraged if the perpetrators were a minority of Israelis, US soldiers, BNP activists...
For many, the outrage becomes a shrug when the perpetrators are a minority of Muslims and the victims white.
That is the double standard that Ake rightly points out.