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| Rapper and singer Tory Lanez will face 10 years in. |
Celebrating Hip-Hop turning 50.
On Friday, August 11, Brooklyn will celebrate a movement.
Life is good.
Except for Daystar Peterson. He will spend at least 10 years in a California iron college.
His domestic violence towards his former led his temper to hell.
Once out, he will have to beg the U.S. government to stay in the country. Cause he will be deported back to Canada. He will be banned from entry. He will not be able to see his children (who were born in the U.S.) indefinitely. They will have to visit him in Canada.
He would have to seek a lawmaker willing to pressure the next president to issue a pardon. He is definitely not getting a pardon from California governor Gavin Newsom.
He will likely lose his properties to pay for the legal and medical bills. Megan Thee Stallion did not want to be a victim and proved to the world that the "code of the streets" is bullshit. It was life or death.
Tory Lanez.
A jury convicted Lanez, 31, who pleaded not guilty, of three felony charges in December: assault with a semi-automatic firearm, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Lanez addressed the court before the judge handed down his sentence. He apologized for his actions and said he took full responsibility for the 2020 shooting.
“If I could change it, I would, but I can’t,” he said. “Everything I did that night, I take full responsibility,” he added. “I truly am just trying to be a better person.”
Lanez looked surprised but remained quiet after the sentence was announced. The mother of his son burst into tears as she was led out of the courtroom.
Matthew Barhoma, a member of Lanez’s legal team, said appeals for both the sentence and the conviction are planned. The team will also file for bail when it appeals the sentence.
In handing down his sentence, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Herriford said it was “difficult to reconcile” the doting father and committed philanthropist many described with the person who fired a gun five times at Megan.
“Sometimes good people do bad things,” Herriford said. “Actions have consequences, and there are no winners in this case.”
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| Everyone was calling her a liar. She was telling the truth. Megan Thee Stallion did not want to be a victim of domestic violence. |
Deputy District Attorney Alex Bott said Lanez called Megan a liar, intimidated her and harassed her.
“Not only did the defendant do the heinous act of shooting her; he then subjected her to 2 ½ years of hell,” Bott said after the sentencing.
Lanez also faced possible deportation back to Canada.
“We’re nowhere near that yet,” Jose Baez, one of his attorneys, said about whether Lanez will face deportation.
In seeking a shorter sentence, his lawyers argued for probation and said he should be released from jail to a residential substance abuse program. They claimed Lanez has alcohol abuse disorder, anxiety and post-traumatic stress from the unexpected death of his mother when he was 11 years old.
He now claims he was a PTSD victim. Yeah, tell that to August Alsina. He may face criminal charges for the assault in Chicago. He was unapologetic for that too. He only apologizes knowing he could lose every privilege he had living in the United States without obtaining citizenship.
Prosecutors said they were “skeptical” of the claims, which were not presented throughout the trail.
“This case has nothing to do with mental illness,” said Bott, the prosecutor. “He shot Megan because she bruised his ego.”
Lawyers for the defense countered that there is a clear thread between Lanez’s trauma and heavy alcohol use and his violent actions in 2020.
“Someone has to be severely off to shoot someone because of a bruised ego,” Baez said.
Herriford, the judge, said he was “disinclined” to allow those factors to influence his decision.
Lawyers for Lanez played a lengthy video showing his charity work and family life, which Bott said looked more like an award for “man of the year” than “a misogynist and coward” convicted of shooting an innocent woman.
“Tory Lanez is not the victim in this story,” Bott told the court.
Lanez, who dedicated an entire album to rebutting her version of events, did not testify at trial. His lawyers said Megan’s testimony that Lanez asked her not to go to police because he was on parole was false and argued that DNA evidence prosecutors used to identify him as the likely shooter fell short of industry standards.
His legal team also called the trial a "case about jealousy," telling the jurors that Megan and her former friend Kelsey Nicole Harris, who was also in the car at the time of the incident, had gotten into an argument about Lanez and other men.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Megan’s celebrity has put a spotlight on the issue of violence against women.
“There are many people in our community that endure acts of violence every day from people close to them and feel reluctant to come forward when this happens,” Gascón said. “I hope that Ms. Pete’s bravery gives hope to those that feels helpless.”
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