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Tory Lanez Convicted of Shooting Fellow Rapper Megan Thee Stallion
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Tory Lanez Convicted of Shooting Fellow Rapper Megan Thee Stallion

Terri Vermeulen Keith, City News ServiceDecember 23, 2022

Rapper Tory Lanez was convicted of assault and other charges today, Dec. 23, for shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion in the feet during a 2020 argument in the Hollywood Hills.  On its second day of deliberations, the jury convicted of Lanez, 30, of all three charges he was facing — assault with a semiautomatic firearm, discharging a firearm with gross negligence and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. Jurors also found true allegations that he personally used a firearm and inflicted great bodily injury on Megan Thee Stallion, whose real name is Megan Pete. Lanez — whose

Cincinnati ‘Ready to Explode’ if Judge Goes to Jail Former Judge Fears “Being another Sandra Bland”
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Cincinnati ‘Ready to Explode’ if Judge Goes to Jail Former Judge Fears “Being another Sandra Bland”

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentJuly 11, 2019

Former Cincinnati State Sen. Eric Kearney told a group of Black Press of America publishers that he’s concerned that the prosecution and conviction of Judge Tracie Hunter and her impending six-month jail sentence set to begin on July 22, will rekindle the same intense racial division that led to race riots less than 20 years ago.