Meek Mill has honored the victims of the Holocaust by walking three kilometers in Poland alongside New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
TMZ reported that the “Dreams & Nightmares” rapper joined Kraft and several others to walk three kilometers outside of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex on Tuesday (April 18). The complex was the largest Nazi concentration camp during World War II, where at least 1.3 million people were killed from 1940 to 1945.
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Kraft, who is also the founder of the non-profit group Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, also lit one of the six torches to commemorate the six million people killed during the Holocaust.
Meek Mill and Robert Kraft have worked together since at least 2019, when Kraft joined Meek and JAY-Z in their campaign for criminal justice reform.
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While the Philadelphia native will always be known for his music, social justice matters have taken center stage for him as of late.
On April 13, Meek Mill took to Twitter to express his outrage at the sentencing of Larry Pearson, who was recently sentenced to 70 years in prison. Pearson was arrested last May after a person accused him of domestic violence. The victim told responding officers that Pearson had allegedly hit her multiple times and that he was in possession of a firearm. Prosecutor Jessica Gorman noted in the trial that the gun later turned out to be an airsoft gun, and the victim had “multiple visible injuries” at the time of the incident.
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Pearson was taken into custody, where he became agitated and started kicking the doors of the police cruiser. When officers told him to stop, he allegedly spat at both of them and continued to do so when he arrived at the Lubbock County Detention Center.
Pearson was found guilty on Thursday (April 13) of two counts of harassment of a public servant. Gorman asked the jury to “send a message” to Pearson with his sentencing, adding he had previous convictions of continuous family violence and aggravated robbery. While facing a minimum sentence of 25 years, a judge sentenced him to 70 years.
“If you’re going to live the life of crime, you’re going to do that among other criminals [in prison],” said Gorman. “You’re not going to get 70 years for something like this when you’ve never been in trouble before.”
In response, Meek Mill said there’s no just cause for a man to be sentenced to 70 years for spitting.
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“Nah this action level!!!!!” he tweeted. “Ain’t no way they can give us that much time for a misdemeanor like spitting… ion care what they gone try to say his record is! No regard for black life in that courtroom.”
