Teen gets time for grandma in 'gangster rap' video

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gangster_grandma

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Florida teenager has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for coaxing his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot "all the pigs" in a homemade "gangster rap" video.

Eighteen-year-old Michael Alfinez pleaded guilty Tuesday to elder abuse charges. His family has said the case was a misunderstanding.

The 85-year-old grandmother can be seen in the video holding a handgun, wearing a black mask and threatening to shoot "all the pigs."

Alfinez was arrested in April after authorities seized the tape during a routine traffic stop. Alfinez and others also could be seen in the video shooting a pistol around town.

Alfinez also pleaded guilty to charges of firing out of a moving vehicle and into a building.

[DS1]

1. Seized the tape on what grounds?

[CBGLuthier]

3. I would like to know that too

Every article says the same thing;

Seized the tape during a routine traffic stop.

I have had a good twenty or so routine traffic stops in my life and not one item of mine has been seized or even examined although a cop did root through my ashtray one time.

I am sure his race and age had nothing to do with it at all. Yeah. Right.

[Dr. Strange]

5. The only thing I can think of is...

Alfinez and others also could be seen in the video shooting a pistol around town.

Alfinez also pleaded guilty to charges of firing out of a moving vehicle and into a building.

Maybe they were waving the pistol around, and that's part of why they got pulled over? The cop asks them why they're waving pistols around, they say they're filming a video, the cop says, "Okay, we'll need to see this video."

:shrug:

[flvegan]

2. Shitty amateur wannabe gangstas rapping in Florida? Can't be.

[suninvited]

4. He made her participate in the video against her will?

I dont understand how grandma in a video is elderly abuse.