An aspiring rapper was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after posing in a music video with guns despite a previous conviction, US prosecutors announced Wednesday. [More]But rich, white and connected Pokey Poke continues to get an assumption-based pass from the federal government that was denied to a struggling minority artist?
Makes one wonder what club certain folks who get a pass belong to.
ReplyDeleteHollywood provides felons with non-guns that look like real guns.
ReplyDelete"To serve Hollywood's marquee felons like Mark Wahlberg (currently brandishing a Glock 17 as a cop in Patriots Day) and Danny Trejo (most recently armed with an M1911A1 pistol in 2013's Machete Kills) — who aren't allowed by law to bear arms — ISS has a roster of realistic electronic guns (also known as e-guns or non-guns) that can stand in for everything from Smith & Wessons to Uzis. "They get a lot of use on hip-hop music video shoots," says one weapons specialist. Producers working with ex-cons or shooting outside in neighborhoods with noise restrictions rely on them since they discharge at a much quieter level. They also are used in close-fire situations like a point-blank execution scene, where real weapons firing blanks are deemed unsafe (e-guns don’t eject shell casings)."
http://features.hollywoodreporter.com/the-gun-industrys-lucrative-relationship-with-hollywood/
Too little too late...
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the tip.
There's also the fact that one of guns he posed with was both stolen, and had been used in a shooting not long before the video was recorded.
ReplyDeleteNot known until he was investigated and arrested though, was it?
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