Judge raps the Bx. DA in C Blu shooting case

The judge overseeing the police shooting case against drill rapper C Blu has slammed the Bronx district attorney’s office for citing the teen’s rap videos as evidence he had access to guns.

The ruling issued Friday by Judge Naita Semaj comes less than a week after she said an NYPD officer involved in the arrest of C Blu, born Camrin Williams, gave “incredible and unreliable” testimony, prompting pushback from Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.

“This court must note that the pictures depicting [Williams] with what appears to be a weapon were pulled from social media accounts associated with his music career including a YouTube page and an Instagram account. [Williams] is a rap artist ... and the screenshots from YouTube are clearly from music videos,” Semaj (photo) wrote. “This court will draw no real-life conclusions about items posted from a music video — especially when there is nothing to support the conclusion that the gun held in the video was real.”

Police said that Williams, 16, was part of a disorderly crowd on Jan. 18 in Belmont and refused orders to take his hands out of his pockets, leading to the scuffle during which a stolen gun in his pocket went off. Both Williams and an officer were wounded by the gunshot.

But Semaj ruled last week that “clear” body cam footage showed Williams had been cooperative with cops’ orders and police had no legitimate reason to approach him. She said the gun was fired as cops grabbed at Williams’ sides.

Adams, who’d previously used the case to slam the state’s bail laws, last week voiced support for the cops involved in the arrest, despite the judge’s criticism. Sewell echoed Adams’ comments Friday.

“That individual was known to carry a firearm in the past and we ask [officers] to engage with gang and crew members in that area,” she said.

Semaj, however, wrote that she’d been presented with no evidence showing that Williams was in a gang.

A prosecution exhibit purporting to prove Williams’ gang ties was merely screenshots from his social media, the judge wrote. There was “nothing in the record before this court to support the position that [Williams] is in fact a member of a gang,” Semaj wrote.

Williams was charged as an adult in Bronx Supreme Court with weapons charges and second-degree assault. The case will proceed in Family Court.