Prosecutors want Young Thug in prison over a viral post that sparked backlash

ATLANTA – Prosecutors successful Atlanta are asking a justice to revoke Young Thug 's probation and nonstop him to situation due to the fact that of his viral station that sparked an online backlash against the territory attorney's office.

The Grammy-winning rapper pleaded blameworthy successful October to gang, cause and weapon charges and was released from jail. However, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said helium “engaged successful behaviour that straight threatens the information of witnesses and prosecutors, compromises ongoing ineligible proceedings, and warrants contiguous revocation of probation.”

In a tribunal filing connected Wednesday, Willis said Young Thug reposted a societal media station that included a photograph of an researcher successful the territory attorney's bureau with a caption that said the researcher is “the biggest liar successful the DA's office.” The station “quickly went viral, amassing implicit 2 cardinal views, with thousands of comments and retweets."

The investigator's location code and that of her parents were posted publicly, and immoderate posts included threats to the researcher and her family, the filing says. One station threatened the assassination of Willis.

“I don't marque threats to radical I'm a bully person," Young Thug posted Wednesday nighttime connected the societal level X. "I would ne'er condone anyone threatening anyone oregon decidedly enactment successful threatening anyone. I'm each astir bid and love.”

The rapper, whose fixed sanction is Jeffery Williams, was indicted on with much than 2 twelve different radical successful May 2022, accused of violating Georgia's anti-racketeering law. The indictment said the rapper co-founded a convulsive thoroughfare gang that committed aggregate murders, shootings and carjackings implicit astir a decennary and promoted its activities successful songs and connected societal media.

A Fulton County Superior Court justice gave him a full condemnation of 40 years. The archetypal 5 years were to beryllium served successful prison, but that was commuted to clip served. Then helium has 15 years connected probation. Finally, a “backloaded” 20 years successful situation volition beryllium commuted to clip served if helium complies with each of the conditions of his probation.

If the justice grants the probation revocation, that 20-year situation condemnation would instrumentality effect.

Prosecutors accidental the researcher whose photograph Young Thug reposted is presently a witnesser successful a “multi-defendant pack murder” case. The justice explicitly said during a proceeding that the researcher was not to beryllium shown connected tv portion testifying, their filing says.

A blogger posted the investigator's photograph connected societal media with the caption, “She doesn't privation to beryllium shown connected screen? Well, present she is,” and Young Thug reposted that, prosecutors wrote.

Young Thug's “continued relation with individuals actively progressive successful witnesser intimidation, threats of violence, and obstruction of justice” is simply a usurpation of the conditions of his probation, prosecutors wrote.

The proceedings for Young Thug and 5 others began successful November 2023 aft it took astir 10 months to spot a jury. The rapper and 3 different defendants pleaded blameworthy successful October. A jury successful November recovered the 2 remaining defendants successful the proceedings not blameworthy of racketeering, execution and gang-related charges, though 1 of them was convicted connected a weapon charge.

Young Thug co-wrote the deed “This is America” with Childish Gambino, which became the archetypal hip-hop way to win the opus of the year Grammy successful 2019.

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