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The Straight Story

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Thu May 26, 2016, 01:37 PM May 2016

The Latest: NYC police boss calls rappers 'basically thugs'

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on a fatal shooting inside a New York City concert venue where hip-hop artist T.I. was getting ready to perform (all times local):

1:05 p.m.

New York City's police commissioner has called rap artists "basically thugs" a day after a shooting at a hip-hop concert left one person dead and three others injured.

In an interview Thursday with WCBS radio, William Bratton cited "the crazy world of these so-called rap artists who are basically thugs that basically celebrate violence they did all their lives." He says, "Unfortunately, that violence often times manifests itself during their performances."

http://www.westernmassnews.com/story/32069927/the-latest-nyc-police-boss-calls-rappers-basically-thugs

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The Latest: NYC police boss calls rappers 'basically thugs' (Original Post) The Straight Story May 2016 OP
The leader of one of biggest organizations that kills people with no consequences KeepItReal May 2016 #1
Takes one to know one it seems PFunk1 May 2016 #2

KeepItReal

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1. The leader of one of biggest organizations that kills people with no consequences
Thu May 26, 2016, 01:58 PM
May 2016

Called performance artists thugs?

FOH Bratton.

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