Breaking: Tory Lanez shooting video to be released in 36 hours, Congresswoman Paulina Luna says. Edit: Ring camera footage dropping today!!

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Couple more hours before 36...........I been more than patient........if this shyt turns out like old boy and those qualities that never manifested, I'm have to find a way to dap undap neg rep and one star that bytch........and I know I'm starting on that ironing board pre pubescent body on that bytch

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Couple more hours before 36...........I been more than patient........if this shyt turns out like old boy and those qualities that never manifested, I'm have to find a way to dap undap neg rep and one star that bytch........and I know I'm starting on that ironing board pre pubescent body on that bytch

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nikkas waking up at 6 AM plotting to virtually neg me :dead:

Go to work bro.
 

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MAGA support for Tory Lanez reeks of cynicism​

Many Republicans have portrayed immigrants as violent criminals who terrorize Americans, so why are Trump allies defending Lanez? The answers seem clear.


May 21, 2025, 7:53 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
Conservatives are turning rapper Tory Lanez, whose real name is Daystar Peterson, into a cause célèbre.
At face value, this may seem like an odd turn of events. The MAGA movement has spent years peddling stories that portray immigrants as violent criminals who terrorize American citizens. And President Donald Trump has described himself as a “protector” of women. So one might wonder why a violent immigrant from Canada, one who has taunted a victim of his violence, has garnered so much right-wing support. The answer appears to be a toxic mix of misogyny and cynical politicking.

On Tuesday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican who’s known for peddling conspiracy theories about the justice system, called for Lanez to receive a pardon, regurgitating unsubstantiated claims — made recently by Lanez’s lawyers, as well — that he was railroaded at his trial over a 2020 shooting that injured fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion. A Los Angeles jury convicted Lanez of three felonies, including assault with a semi-automatic firearm.

There’s little reason to think Lanez’s latest claims of prosecutorial misconduct differ from his previous failed effort to make such claims in court. But nonetheless, this narrative has been spread by pro-Trump influencers, such as Tomi Lahren. It also has been spread by a number of Black MAGA influencers, who appear eager to promote the story as one about a Black man mistreated by the justice system rather than a seemingly unrepentant violent criminal who was convicted by a jury of his peers. Pro-Trump influencer DJ Akademiks and Fox News personality Gianno Caldwell are just a few examples of the latter. (Caldwell even threw in some George Soros conspiracism during a recent Fox News segment in which he baselessly alleged that a “Soros-funded” prosecutor “railroaded” Lanez.)
And various rappers with their own controversial histories — including Drake, who has publicly criticized Trump in the past, and avowed Trump supporters Ye and Kodak Black — have put on their capes and called for Lanez to be pardoned, in some sort of hypermasculine pile-on that Meg Thee Stallion has denounced. It’s not unlike what occurred during the trial.
And the cynical incentives for MAGA followers to join this conspiratorial push seem clear.
So what we’re seeing now is a conglomerate of conservative voices, including Black rappers and white Republicans alike, running to the defense of a convicted criminal who is serving a 10-year sentence after harming a Black woman.
And the cynical incentives for MAGA followers to join this conspiratorial push seem clear. It allows for the continued victimization of Megan Thee Stallion, someone who — like other celebrities Trump has attacked recently — supported Kamala Harris during the 2024 election and has faced right-wing backlash for doing so. It helps conservatives sow conspiratorial anger toward liberal-led California. It plays into conservatives’ perverse ideology that constantly portrays men as victims of a feminist society. And, perhaps most dubiously, it allows conservatives to continue their bizarre trend of using alignment with violent rappers to try to convey some sort of sympathy for the plight of Black men, as if misogynistic rappers are avatars for the Black community.
I’ve written previously about the MAGA movement’s efforts to use rappers to advance its political causes. So, with that in mind, the MAGA fervor surrounding Lanez seems par for the course.
 

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Nah, I'm in high spirits cause you finna prove why this innocent man should be ser free :mjgrin:
I know you are


This is the best thing to happen in your life this week I’m sure :mjlol:


But the fakkit in you tags me because I hurt your feelings. :mjlol:


Since you are as slow as your screen name suggests, let me help you out some more:
If anyone from Trumps cabinet involved then it’s most likely not happening

But you knew that, you just in your feelings.
 

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Everyone has a right to their own opinion. It’s not just the internet a lot of people in the industry don’t believe he shot her. Even the witness that the defense team was using switched his story up at the last minute.
Throngs of people can be wrong. People also pick and choose who to align their opinions towards. Thankfully, we as humans have systems in place to filter things out.

Yall bring so much baggage into your “opinions.”
 

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Throngs of people can be wrong. People also pick and choose who to align their opinions towards. Thankfully, we as humans have systems in place to filter things out.

Yall bring so much baggage into your “opinions.”
What baggage? The things that I’ve heared about this case has been janky to me. For me to form my opinions about. Everything is up for interpretation especially when some of these systems you speak of are known to fail for others.
 
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