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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump lashes out at Sweden: 'Give A$AP Rocky his freedom'
President Trump on Thursday forcefully objected to Sweden's decision to pursue charges against rapper A$AP Rocky, whose case the president has taken an interest in after it was raised by Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West. The president tweeted that he was "very disappointed" in Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, who said over the weekend he would not intervene in the case despite a phone call from Trump.
"Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States," Trump tweeted. "I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers. Treat Americans fairly! #FreeRocky" ... "Give A$AP Rocky his FREEDOM," Trump said in a subsequent tweet.
The rapper was charged Thursday with committing an assault causing actual bodily harm during an altercation late last month in Stockholm. Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, and two members of his entourage allegedly assaulted Mustafa Jafari over the course of several minutes in the streets of Stockholm in an incident captured on video, according to The New York Times.
The case quickly gained traction in the U.S. after Trump said he learned of it from first lady Melania Trump and had discussed it with Kanye West.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454806-trump-lashes-out-at-sweden-give-aap-rocky-his-freedom
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)Obey him
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)without interference with Fatfuck 45 just because he wants to use the arrest of some rich black celebrity in order to "prove" he's not racist?
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)trivial events the bastard won't have time to start the war machine moving..
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Captain Zero
(6,810 posts)For us to invade Sweden through it. Offer them some immigration visas under the table after Stephen Miller gets us down to zero immigration levels? If Trump can't get this guy freed asap, congressional hearings should begin.
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)"I just don't want to kill 10 million people. I have plans on Sweden, that if I wanted to win that war, Sweden would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone. It would be over in -- literally, in 10 days, and I don't want to do -- I don't want to go that route."
-Fatfuck 45
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)Stupid and evil enough to actually do it.
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)... invade Sweden,.. 6 deferments,.. Chicken Hawk Commander in Chief says.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)so he thinks he knows the whole story
Trump is an ignorant ass
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)from the Saudi embassy and yet he found no wrongdoing...
former9thward
(32,023 posts)Did you watch them? If this was the U.S. the people who assaulted him would be denounced -- and on this site. But Sweden racists get a pass... Why?
Celerity
(43,408 posts)I am in Stockholm (and London) for the summer. I am in Stockholm as I type this. The exact intersection where it happened is Olofsgatan (where the fight took place, right around the corner from the main entrance of a giant food hall called Kungshallen on Kungsgatan, a main street) and Apelbergsgatan (the small side street they walked down after the fight.) There are CCTV cams everywhere down there and the prosecutor's office reviewed a lot of evidence from multiple videos, as well as taking multiple statements from other witnesses.
There is almost zero chance that the prosecutor's office (Åklagarmyndigheten) would move forward with a trial (especially one with such international notoriety as this) unless they were very certain of the events and also of the culpability of the people being charged. Rocky's lawyer appealed to the Swedish Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen, ie 'HD') and they refused to intervene after reviewing the evidence, so I am sure they have a solid case.
they did some damage
mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)You are allowed to defend yourself, or another person. What you are not allowed to do is beat on a person after they are down. Which the police and prosecutors have determined that Rocky and his entourage did.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)and violence does not get a pass from me
I have seen the video that ASAP Rocky's people put out and I have seen the videos of his crew throwing the man and starting to beat him... others here have posted more photos and the prosecutor in Sweden has said that there are many more videos and photos that the public has not seen...
I would bet that Trump has seen Rocky's video and that is all... Trump is merely trying to play to people of color and it should not be accepted...
no_hypocrisy
(46,122 posts)Vinca
(50,278 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)sick scumbag
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Maybe Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West could ask Trump to
let the kids out of their cages?
handmade34
(22,756 posts)Shaddox
(384 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)any time one of his friends gets in legal trouble...
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)And he was right.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Somehow a brawl at a rap concert has become an international incident requiring direct intervention of the President and State Department while the Saudis can butcher an American reporter in their own consulate and he could give less than a shit...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Actually it was a street fight outside a store or bar.
They were in Sweden for a concert, but this wasn't at the concert.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)All I know based on the chatter I see on social media, which says Rocky (who is facing a sentence of one zillion years) is the worst kangaroo court victim since Alfred Dreyfus; the normally liberal and open-minded nation of Sweden has become a worse merciless police state than old Communist Romania and is more racist than 1950s Mississippi....
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,033 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)Joe941
(2,848 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)and if he's acquitted he'll go free. Why does he need to be set free before a fair adjudication instead of being tried?
ck4829
(35,077 posts)superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Because its whats really important
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)Did I just say that????
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)former9thward
(32,023 posts)How can you defend the attackers?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,733 posts)There may be other evidence. Just as in the US, he will be tried if there's evidence indicating that a crime may have been committed. Why not let the process continue? If there's insufficient evidence to convict him he'll be acquitted. Trump has no business interfering with the legitimate legal process of another country.
former9thward
(32,023 posts)So I am sure you don't object when other countries arrest and try people whose civil rights are being violated. When gays are hung in Iran. After all we have "no business interfering with the legitimate legal process of another country.' Your words not mine. Or we can only interfere when you think the cause is ok? Sweden is an all white country and if you think the justice system for foreign blacks is ok that is naive at best...
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)This is pretty much a racist, anti+American, or just plain asshole prosecutor...
handmade34
(22,756 posts)you have not seen... and I have not seen, but I have seen the one where ASAP Rocky throws the guy across the street and it looks pretty violent to me... I try not to judge if I haven't seen all the evidence
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)If they have rocky locked up then where is bullwinkle?
Nothing good will come from this.
Free the moose!!!!
tblue37
(65,403 posts)Also wik
Also also wik
Wi not trei a holiday in Sweeden this yer ?
See the loveli lakes
The wonderful telephone system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic moose
A moose once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svengeher brother-in-law an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian movies: "The Hot Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Molars of Horst Nordfink"...
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti...
Møøse trained by Yutte Hermsgervørdenbrøtbørda Special Møøse Effects Olaf Prot.
Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and "O" Level Geography by Bo Benn.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,181 posts)Watch for his new hit " (Big) Baby Got Back ".
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Asshole.