Statue is a joke.
I can’t believe they named a performing arts center after that clown, hahaha.
How does one vandalize a statue of a rapper. Isn’t that redundant?
How can they be allowed to torture this statue?
“A spokeswoman for the center last week said she was told a noose was placed around the neck of the statue and the incident was being investigated as a hate crime.”
From the previous article:
“However, DeKalb County police spokesman Marcus Hodge said no noose was around Shakur’s neck, but rather an orange nylon string with a wooden cross attached. He added that the incidents are not being investigated as hate crimes.”
Which is it? See how quickly a piece of sting becomes a noose?
No need for the Rev. Al Sharpton to save us all from racism then? Darn!
Wilson was charged Thursday with second-degree criminal damage to property, a felony.
A felony? C'mon, now! I hate vandalism as much as the next person but let's be reasonable here. This should not be a felony charge.
This was supposedly a "hate crime," so they piled on the charges. Surely there was nothing like felonious vandalism involved. Underwear on the head? Take it off. String around the neck? Remove it. Stickers on the statue? Take them off and wash off the glue.
Good grief, this was a stupid and annoying thing to do, but it's not a felony unless a certain amount of monetary damage was done. That doesn't seem possible. In other words, they faked up a felony crime purely because they thought it was white racism. Black racism? That's OK.
Statue is a joke.
By the way since hate crime laws are partially based on the idea of indimidation of a community at large are other statues crying out in fear? (/sarc)
All this is a felony? They have really bizarre folks there in the DeKalb prosecutor's office, but more importantly, really bizarre folks in the IL legislature that provided such a law.
Notice that the statue already has a CROSS on it. Isn’t that illegal? Maybe the extra added cross was separate from the underwear crime.
The extra cross for sure is a hate crime. Actually accusing someone of being a Christian!
If one hates statutes shouldn’t it be a hate crime?
I heard this on the news and all I could think was....”WHO CARES?”
Yup- they named an “arts center” after this worthless, no-talent gangbanger-wannabe, but given the state of the “arts” these days, no one should really be surprised. Besides, we have a long history of canonizing the strangest people here.
How this jerk lived is how he died. You can take the boy out of the slum, but you can’t take the slum out of the boy...
TwoPack is to art what Arafat was to peace.
I think it the police report was faked, and the real Tupac statue is in hiding.