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West arrives in SUV to join Floyd protest in Chicago
Kanye West is joining public protests for George Floyd. The rapper appeared in Chicago Thursday night at a “Justice for George Floyd/cpd out of CPS” rally on the city’s South Side.
Organizers with Good Kids Mad City said West called them and said he wanted to join a protest. But the orderly rally devolved as West got out of a black SUV wearing a face mask and a hoodie.
Organizers became frustrated with the disorder.
Taylore Norwood, 20, grabbed a megaphone and told the crowd that this Chicago march was a youth-led protest and that she didn’t want a “celebrity” hijacking it.
After a short stay, West appeared to depart and protesters continued their planned march.
Jay-z sends jet to fly Arbery’s lawyers to Georgia hearing
Jay-z saved the day for two civil rights lawyers representing the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the black Georgia man who was jogging in February when he was shot and killed by two white men in a truck.
S. Lee Merritt of Philadelphia’s Merritt Law Firm credited the music superstar and activist with helping them get to Brunswick, Georgia, on Thursday for a probable-cause hearing for the three men charged in Arbery’s death. Father and son Gregory and Travis Mcmichael were charged with murder and aggravated assault, while William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who filmed the video of Arbery’s shooting, faces a felony murder charge.
A Georgia investigator testified Thursday about one of the men’s use of a racial slur.
The hearing concluded with the judge finding probable cause for the murder charges.
Merritt revealed Jay-z’s assist in an Instagram post, writing: “When you absolutely have to be in Court to stand with your client and righteous protestors for justice ... Jay Z sends his private jet. That’s part of the P.P.E plan to get us out of this Crisis (People Power Political Power Economic Power) #PPE”
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