Younger Thug
Lock Him Up for Social Media Repost
… Prosecutors Inform Choose
Printed
Younger Thug‘s freedom is gonna be short-lived if prosecutors get their approach — they need him locked up once more for revealing a witness in a homicide case on his social media.
Fulton County prosecutors filed a movement Wednesday asking the decide to revoke Thug’s probation for placing legislation enforcement at risk by reposting a blogger’s picture of a police investigator who was testifying in a gang-related homicide.
Based on docs, the decide in that case ordered the media to not present the witness on TV, however the blogger defied that order … posting a pic of the cop with the caption, “She would not need to be proven on display screen? Properly, right here she is.”
On Tuesday, Thug “amplified” it by not solely reposting the blogger, however in his personal caption he named the investigator and known as her the “greatest liar within the DA’s workplace.”
Prosecutors say Thug’s publish went viral, getting greater than 2 million views and 1000’s of feedback and reposts. A few of the feedback included threats that had been made in opposition to the investigator and Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis.
Thug’s solely been out of jail since final October, when he struck a plea deal within the YSL RICO case — he pled responsible to prison avenue gang exercise, and was given 15 years’ probation.
Prosecutors say he is violated that probation with a “marketing campaign of intimidation, harassment, and misinformation designed to undermine the authorized course of.”
D.A. Willis is asking the decide to revoke Thug’s probation and lock him up instantly to ship a message that witness intimidation ain’t cool.
Thug’s lawyer Brian Steele informed Atlanta’s 11Alive, “This movement is baseless. Whereas intimidation and threats of violence are by no means acceptable, [Young Thug] has accomplished nothing fallacious. We sit up for in search of a dismissal of this petition.”