Charges dropped against rapper C Blu for allegedly shooting NY police officer
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Officials announced that charges against the young rapper C Blu suspected of shooting an NYPD officer during a brawl in the Bronx earlier this year have been dropped.
The city Law Department said in a Friday statement that the gun and assault case against Camrin Williams, a 16-year-old suspected gangbanger and rapper who goes by the stage name C Blu, “cannot be prosecuted.”
Rapper C Blu was charged with what?
Williams was charged after reportedly shooting 27-year-old officer Kaseem Pennant in the leg while on probation for a previous firearms case in January.
In February, Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle set Williams’ bond at $250,000, which he deposited with an advance he purportedly earned after signing a recording contract with Interscope Records.
Williams was taken back into juvenile court a week after making bail for breaking his probation.
Williams’ luck turned this week when his most recent case was dismissed
According to the Law Department, “just because the city can’t prosecute doesn’t mean this man shouldn’t have been carrying an unlawful weapon – a weapon that contributed to both him and an officer being shot.”
“Pursuant to Family Court Law, the case is now sealed and we are unable to say more about the matter.”
The decision to withdraw the charges against Williams was deemed “absurd” by NYPD Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch.
“Every New Yorker who wants to get illegal firearms off our streets should be outraged by this ludicrous decision.” This person was unquestionably caught carrying an illegal firearm for the second time. If criminals like him face no consequences even after shooting an officer, we have to wonder: why send us out to collect the guns in the first place?
After policemen reacted to a noisy crowd on Lorillard Place on January 19, Williams’ revolver went off while he was tussling with the officer, according to police.
Authorities say he was previously detained in the Bronx in May 2020, when he was just 14, for possessing a Tauris handgun.
Ankita Khanrah
Ankita Khanrah is a second-year student of the Master of Communication and Journalism (Integrated) programme at the School of Mass Communication, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.
