From N.W.A. and Ice-T’s early proclamations to recent evidence of an LAPD cover up in the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., Hip Hop’s relationship with the law has been less than cordial.
Another chapter in that story was written recently, as Oakland rapper Zoe Tha Roasta reached a $300,000 settlement with the city of Oakland, California, after police planted a gun on him.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that former officer Ramon Alcantar planted a gun on the rapper as he was leaving a wake for his aunt in June 2006.
According to the rapper, he was detained by Alcantar, who placed him in the back of his squad car and said “I found your gun.”
Despite publicly protesting, Zoe was charged with several weapons offenses, and spent 18 months in jail before the charges were dropped in 2008.
“This was an important case for holding the police officers accountable for their misconduct,” said the rapper’s attorney John Burris “Because Mr. Hall has a criminal record, the officers claimed a weapon found in a car was his when the evidence was clear that the gun belonged to someone else.”
Zoe will receive $175,000 from Oakland, and the rest will be in attorney fees.
300,000? Seems like bullshit, i wouldv wanted more for spending 18 months in jail because of dirty cops. More like 5million and i would be happy
I thought the exact same thing…175k especially aint shit id be lookin to be set for life..
Its only a year of your life… I dont know if you remember that story from a month or two ago about a man who spent like 33 years in jail in Fordia?.. He didn’t get no 300 000 a year… I think the median amount for shit like this when somebody spends time in jail for bullshit reasons, is like 80 000 plus incidentals or whatever. 300 000 for one year is good. would u make that much? Now it depends on what he missed out on in my opinion. did he miss the birth of a kid or the funeral of a parent? We dont have all the facts obviously. I would do 18 months right now for 300 000.No issue.
hell naw i would rather be getting bread myself
@kalluminati, coming home from jail is like starting over, no job, could have lost a house, cars because he couldnt keep up with the payments, like u said births deaths…its like starting over from scratch. Its not even that he got convicted of something he didnt do and it was an honest accident a cop planted a gun on him and he spent 18 months in jail for a crime the cops knew he didnt commit.
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fuck the police, i’ll never call a cop
You lie
look i dont kno that cat but i believe him, cuz some people r man enough to take care of their OWN problems, women and kids need police real men dont
FUCK COPS THEY WILL KILL A NIGGA WHEN HE TRYNA GET BREAD
I throw poo at crooked cops
Next time plant cocaine.
and you’re just an ignorant punk ass racist ass bitch.
175.000 for a year and a halv is ridiculous considering people getting millions from mcdonalds for some spilled coffee. Time of your life is hard to set a price on. Good thing it got resolved though. pz.
punk ass, pink panty wearin, justin bieber lovin, sweet as candy type muh’fuckers
…What in the goddamn shitfuck did that have to do with anything at all?
Anybody with half a brain can see the cop who planted the gun isn’t white, so stop all the racist shit you good for nothing, never going to amount to shit, internet virgin, overweight, Gucci Mane wannabe faggots. You’re all pathetic and never read anything past the title, you all will amount to shit in life, CASE CLOSED!
OPD has forever been on some bullshit so I see this as a minor “victory”. Please believe the OPD has a vendetta against the streets since Lovelle Mixon killed 4 officers in 09, so keep in mind we still upset about Oscar Grant plus too many brothas and sistas gettin killed since by the police because they got a license to.
East Oakland.
okay justice for him, how about some swift justice for those disgraces to their badges?
What’s wrong here is how easy it is for a cop to ruin someone’s life and how difficult it is for someone to redeem themselves. I know of some people that don’t want to go through the process and just admit defeat even though they are innocent.
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fuckin cops need to get bucked police brutality is still going on
Your both right
No anonymous is wrong cops fuck with innocent law abiding brothas all the time. Anonymous is a balls licking cum colored racist fag.
fuck the police straight up and down.lic em up shot on those motherfuckers.
yea n i bet u soft as my bitches ass is1 get some business wit yo lame ass!!!! what kinda bitch made mf r u
Ive lived in Oakland all my life and Ive never heard of dude….Shout out to him for getting his $$$. He should have gotten more…
…Oh yeah and Fuck the Police!
That’s it for 18 months? Fucking cunt ass cops.
Hell Yeah Dude Shoulda got more $$$, If This was a White person this would of been a “National Outrage” No fuckin Doubt about it.
It aint a race thing, its the straight up fuckin truth.
and if it was a mexican theyd throw him back across the border. WHO CARES!! When is everybody gonna stop complaining about race thats a lot of money for 18 months. Black people can be successful today, so why are we still comparing ourselves to other races? Everyone a bitch now a days, these young dudes ain’t getting sprayed with firehouses or being jumped and lynched for equality, no todays youth is straight pussy.
too bad he’ll just spend it all on jewelry