Posted on 04/22/2018 7:17:18 PM PDT by Cubs Fan
A British teenager was punished by a court after she posted allegedly racist lyrics from rapper Snap Dogg that said "kill a snitch n---a, rob a rich n---a."
Chelsea Russell, a 19-year-old from Liverpool, argued that the words from the song "I'm Trippin" were not offensive, and that she had posted them in memory of a 13-year-old boy who was killed in a car crash last summer.
But the lyrics on Russell's Instagram biography, which any other user can see, were reported to police last year and transferred to a unit for hate crimes over the alleged racism, according to the Liverpool Echo.
The teen was found guilty of "grossly offensive message by means of a public electronic communications network" and given a curfew order limiting her movements from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., as well as an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor her.
Britain's "grossly offensive message" law is used for a variety of obscene and threatening speech, including that directed at minority groups.
Russell's defense had said that "n---a" is repeatedly used by rap artists such as JAY-Z and Kanye West at large public festivals where it is heard by thousands of people.
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Britain is the new North Korea.
I’m not kidding either.
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