NYPD Commissioner: ‘Rap Artists Who Are Basically Thugs’ Caused T.I. Concert Shooting
Bill Bratton, the New York Police Department Commissioner, has sounded off about the shooting that occurred at a T.I. concert at Manhattan’s Irving Plaza on Wednesday night. Bratton effectively blamed “so-called rap artists who are basically thugs” for inciting violence.
Here’s Bratton’s statement, given during a radio interview with WCBS 880 this morning:
“The crazy world of the so-called rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate the violence they live all their lives and, unfortunately, that violence often manifests itself during the performances and that’s exactly what happened last evening.”
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