Is every black male shot by police "trying to turn their life around"???
What does that tell you about their choices prior to being shot? pic.twitter.com/xh712NZSY5— Paul Kersey (@sbpdl) September 22, 2016
I did a Google search on “aspiring rapper” and found:
First result. Urban Dictionary:
North American euphemism for a member of the urban criminal class. This unusual occupation is usually mentioned in conjunction with the subject either being slain or being taken into custody for a violent or property-related crime. A relative of the subject usually points out that the subjects demise or incarceration comes at an extremely inopportune moment, ocurring just as they subject was “turning they(sic) life around.”
Special K Icey Eight had a checkered past, but his mother insisted he was a “good boy” who was just turning his life around, when the aspiring rapper was gunned down by a homeowner after breaking into the house via the kitchen window.
Aspiring rapper killed after music video about guns turns into bloodbath, with five shot and one killed in Chicago park
Attack happened as rapper ‘Foreign Lyfe’ was filming video in Foster Park
Aspiring rapper Damond Dawson, aka ‘Thugga,’ was killed
A girl, 19, was hit twice in the groin and three other men also wounded
Foreign Lyfe’s song is titled ‘Two Techs and a 50 Shot,’ a reference to guns
Dawson’s aunt said he was a ‘a good guy’ and not involved in gang life
Third result.
New trial begins for 2 charged in aspiring rapper’s death
SOMERVILLE – Opening arguments were heard Wednesday morning in Somerset County Superior Court before Judge Robert B. Reed in the retrial of two brothers charged in the 2013 fatal shooting of an aspiring rapper at a Franklin Township barber shop.
On May 16, after six days of deliberations, the jury reached an impasse on murder charges against Zaire Cromedy, 23, of New Brunswick, and Antwan Cromedy, 31, of Bound Brook, in the Dec. 29, 2013, killing of New Brunswick resident Eric Andrews, Jr., 28, a hip-hop artist who performed under the moniker “E-9.”
Fourth result.
Aspiring Rapper Dead After Double Shooting in Harbor City
Dickerson’s family said she was an aspiring rapper who worked three jobs to support her music career.
Other results:
* Aspiring rapper, mother found dead inside Gwinnett apartment
* Record company president guilty in aspiring rapper’s death – KCTV5
* Man charged in slaying of aspiring Cleveland rapper
Shouldn’t “Aspiring Rapper” Just be “Expiring Rapper?”
Michael Brown was an aspiring rapper.
DeAndre Joshua, whose body was found in Ferguson on November 24, 2014, was also an aspiring rapper.
If you Google “Aspiring Rapper Killed,” you get more than 337,000 results.
Including this one. [Man arrested in murder of aspiring D.C. rapper during music video filming, WJLA.com, 4-3-15]:Prince George’s County Police have arrested a 21-year-old Northeast Washington man on a murder charge in the fatal shooting of an aspiring D.C. rapper.
Sources told ABC 7 News that Lafonzo Iracks was taken into custody in D.C. early Friday.
Twenty-one-year-old Keaway Lafonz Ivy, who went by the rap name Kealo, was shot and killed while filming a music video Wednesday night. Sources said Iracks was part of a group of people involved with the video.
Police officers found Ivy suffering from an a gunshot wound in the 400 block of Eastern Avenue in Seat Pleasant around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Police had offered a $25,000 reward for information in the case. It was not immediately known if a reward tip led to the arrest.
And you wonder why the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are funding an initiative to highlight positive stories of young men of color…
