Black men who rap along with the fake killers who lie in their songs will be targeted at Maryland’s expense.
If you’re from Maryland and have dreams of making a music career, the court will use your lyrics against you as a defendant to expose guilt.
“The case involves the January 2017 killing of George Forrester, who was shot by a drug dealer after he attempted to buy cocaine with a counterfeit bill. Based on a single witness’s identification, Lawrence Montague was indicted for Forrester’s murder. Three weeks before trial, Montague used a jailhouse telephone to record a rap verse, which was then uploaded to Instagram. At Montague’s trial, the State of Maryland introduced the telephone recording of the lyrics as evidence of Montague’s guilt, and Montague was convicted and sentenced to a combined fifty years for second-degree murder and use of a firearm in a crime of violence,” per Variety.
Many rappers admit they’ve done wrong if they went on VladTV or just blatantly put in their music. Maryland is the first and this is clearly a tactic to lock up Black men. What happens if a white boy comes along talking about guns and what he’s probably done in his lyrics?
This isn’t new but white Maryland is okay with secretly embracing Black rap culture while purposely framing them for crimes probably not committed.
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