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“Young Thug” Trial Getting the Best of Veteran Judge
On January 10, 2024, with my tongue firmly tucked in my right cheek, I opined in these pages that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville deployed “Colored People Time” in his approach to managing the RICO prosecution of millionaire rapper Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams.
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It is well settled in the Black community that Black people operate on a different sense of time. Perhaps it has something to do with our understanding of rhythm. Black people, after all, move and dance in between the beats, while Whites, by and large, roll on the beat. It is often referred to as C. P. T. or Colored People’s Time to explain why Black people tend to arrive late for a gathering.
Between a ROC and a Jail Cell
After a three-week break, the racketeering trial of Grammy award-winning hip-hop artist Young Thug, whose government name is Jeffery Williams, rebooted with a bang. On the second day of the new year, the Fulton County District Attorney’s office called two law enforcement officers.
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Young Thug, the entertainer, is yawning through the first few days of testimony in his Racketeering and Corrupt Crimes Act prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia.
After months of attorneys haggling over the selection of jurors, Brady motions, and motions in limine, witnesses took the stand this week in the RICO prosecution of Grammy Award-winning rapper “Young Thug,” whose birth name is Jeffery Williams.
TUSKEGEE, AL (Cascade Press)
A week after fights broke out in the Chappie James Center during a Young Thug concert, Tuskegee’s hip-hop quoting president, Brain Johnson took to social media to rap a hip-hop ditty: “Hear this again and again and again. All I ever did do, do or will continue to do is win.”
Johnson, married and the father of two children went on to rap: “You’ll see what I’m all about (see what I’m all about). (If I got to scream and shout it I got to scream and shout). Baby baby (baby) baby (baby) baby baby…”
While the seventh president of the famous Tuskegee University found time to let his hair down on social media, Mrs. Diane Jones was trying desperately to speak with him. She had been stymied twice this week from speaking with Johnson, after she learned her daughter had been severely beaten on the west end of the campus the night of the Young Thug concert.
According to Mrs. Jones, her daughter was attacked by seven female students at Tuskegee. The Tuskegee coeds striped her clothes off and beat her into the ground. Mrs Jones said that one of the attackers was arrested, but the other six were not taken into custody. Her daughter is able to identify the other six women.
“They posted pictures of my daughter on social media and bragged about leaving her on the ground naked and blooding,” Mrs. Jones said.
According to Mrs. Jones her daughter was able to obtain an audio-tape confession from several of the girls and has turned it over to the authorities.
Last week we reported that there were several fights inside the Young Thug concert and that students heard gunfire after both sides in the fights were led outside the venue.
According to Mrs. Jones several of the girls involved in the attack on her daughter are members of the Tuskegee Women’s Basketball Team.
Last month, during the Southern Intercollegiate Athlete Conference Basketball Tournament, Tuskegee’s female cheerleaders were expelled from the tournament after the first game because they were embroiled in a fight with the cheerleaders from Albany State. The fight made the national sports news and was viewed on a segment of ESPN.
In December, two students were shot at a house party within a mile and a half of the president’s residence.
While President Johnson is frolicking on social media, the Tuskegee campus is becoming an unsafe place for college students to matriculate. Let’s see if Johnson can win the battle against the violence on campus before parents start sending their children to one of the less expensive state supported schools in Alabama.
Harold Michael Harvey, is the author of the legal thriller “Paper Puzzle,” and “Justice in the Round: Essays on the American Jury System,” available at Amazon and at haroldmichaelharvey.com. He can be contacted at hmharvey@haroldmichaelharvey.com
According to several parents who have students attending Tuskegee University, a Tuskegee student was shot in the leg over the weekend. The name of the student has not been released, but it is believed that the student is from the metropolitan Atlanta area.
Anonymous sources inside the Tuskegee City Police Department said, “the student was shot while attending a hip-hop concert in the Daniel “Chappie” James Center.” However, the City of Tuskegee has left the investigation of the incident up to the Tuskegee University Police Department. A call to the university’s Chief of Police, Patrick Mardis, seeking information about the shooting was not returned by publication time. Also, messages left with the president’s office and the public information office were not returned.
Last month Tuskegee students demonstrated during a visit to the campus by the board of trustees. They demanded that the Board fire President Brian Johnson due to a lack of concern for the safety and well being of students among other campus issues.
The students objected to efforts to construct a security fence around Grey Columns, the antebellum mansion, which serves as the president’s residence, while the campus lacks sufficient lighting and other security measures to keep students safe while on campus.
The board elected to ignore the student concerns.
Students were enjoying the hip-hop beats of Young Thug when several fights broke out, then a single shot rang out in the venue, according to sources inside the concert.
Young Thug is an up and coming musical talent from Atlanta, Georgia.
“He’s got a mouth full of gold, a lip piercing, and a septum piercing. He wears nail polish and tight t-shirts,” according to Complex.Com. His lyrics feature four-lettered words beginning with “F” and some beginning with “S.” He sings about using drugs and “eating pudding.”
Several graduates of the university contacted Cascade Publishing questioning the administration’s decision to allow a hip-hop artist with Young Thug’s penchant for negative and destructive lyrics to come onto campus.
One university employee stated “it was no surprise for Young Thug to be allowed on campus because President Johnson regularly quotes the lyrics of hip-hop artists in his daily social media postings.”
Parents of current students are questioning how a student could attend a hip-hop concert on campus and not be checked for weapons before entering the concert venue.
When officials at the university return our telephone calls we will update this report.
Harold Michael Harvey, is the author of the legal thriller “Paper Puzzle,” and “Justice in the Round: Essays on the American Jury System,” available at Amazon and at haroldmichaelharvey.com. He can be contacted at hmharvey@haroldmichaelharvey.com