February 3, 2025
The Harlem rapper requested the courtroom to ‘chorus’ from utilizing the precise phrase in courtroom.
A$AP Rocky is on trial for an alleged capturing in Los Angeles, and through courtroom testimony, the N-word has been used all through the trial. After intervention from the rapper, the decide has instructed that the precise phrase, n**ga, get replaced by merely saying the “N-word.”
In keeping with Advanced, Harlem-raised A$AP Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, objected to the phrase n**ga being stated in courtroom as his legal professional learn again some textual content messages from former buddy and A$AP Mob group member, A$AP Relli, who Rocky is accused of capturing in Los Angeles in 2021. When Rocky’s legal professional, Joe Tacopina, repeatedly stated the phrase as he was studying from the textual content messages, his consumer blurted out to Los Angeles County Superior Court docket Decide Mark Arnold, asking that he chorus from utilizing the total phrase.
The N-word was incessantly talked about through the trial.
Whereas Tacopina was questioning Relli, the decide interjected and addressed Tacopina and the courtroom about refraining from utilizing the precise phrase and changing it with the extra politically appropriate time period. The decide did reply by saying, “Sooner or later, and that is for all counsel, if there’s any exhibit or any recording that has the n-word, I would like you in courtroom to say ’n-word. I don’t need you to say what it says. It’s the ’n-word’ any more … That applies to all people.”
Right here is the clip of A$AP Rocky talking up in trial after repeated use of the n-word by his lawyer and Relli throughout testimony about textual content messages, and earlier use by Decide Arnold and Deputy District Lawyer John Lewin.
Decide Arnold quickly informed all counsel to solely say “n-word.” pic.twitter.com/LU8bdzTHeo
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) January 31, 2025
Relli has accused his former buddy of firing twice at him in Los Angeles on Nov. 6, 2021, after the 2 have been having a heated dispute on the road. After being arrested for the alleged incident, Rocky pleaded not responsible to the 2 felony counts associated to firing a weapon on the former A$AP Mob group member. Proper earlier than the trial began, Rocky reportedly rejected a last-minute plea deal from prosecutors that might have positioned him in jail for 180 days. He would have additionally obtained a suspended seven-year sentence plus three years of probation. Prosecutors wished him to enter a responsible plea for one of many two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
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