Lil Wayne Tells People Not To Blame All Police After George Floyd Murder, Says ‘My Life Was Saved By A White Cop‘
Lil Wayne took to his Beats 1 ‘Young Money Radio‘ show to tell people not to blame all police following the murder of George Floyd. He reasons, not all cops are bad, because his life “was saved by a white cop” when he shot himself at 12 years old.
He recounts, “My life was saved when I was young. … Shot myself. My life was saved by a white cop. Uncle Bob [real name Deputy Robert Hoobler]. So from, therefore, you have to understand the way I view police, period. … There was a bunch of black cops that jumped over me by that door with that hole in my chest. He refused to.” The rapper does look at the other side, and references the militarized police in his hometown of New Orleans, LA.
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He continues, “I’m from New Orleans, 17th, Hollygrove. We have a thing called ‘Jump out boys.’ Uptown New Orleans. That’s the police. They pull up on you they already got they door cracked. … So many of them jump out. They ain’t coming after you to ask you ‘How you doing? What’s your name? And how’s your day?'” He explains, “Understand that I go through situations too. We all got our situations. Don’t judge no one for no reason. Don’t judge. Do you. … Help out in any way that you can. We can only win it together.” He concludes, “We have to stop placing the blame on the whole force and the whole everybody or a certain race or everybody with a badge.”
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