If you haven’t heard the “50-Shot” news story, in which an innocent man was brutally killed in a flurry of plainclothes police gunshots mere hours before his wedding, you need to turn on a TV centered on Jamaica, Queens. I have a DJ friend whose father is a police officer down south. Upon hearing the case and word through the law enforcement grapevine, he came up to New York and stopped his son from spinning at a local lounge, offering to pay him whatever his fee was NOT to perform that night.
The reason? The NYPD is so angry at the way they botched up this case, they’re out in the streets canvassing lounges, profiling and targeting any young-looking Black man they can catch up to, while they look for this non-existent “4th person” they say would help to make their story somehow legitimate.
I’m passing the warning to you. Any Black men you know that think about going to a lounge, club, strip joint… tell those dudes to STAY AWAY from these spots, for their own safety. Black men are officially under fire, and we don’t need any more of our own assassinated.
See you, Space Cowboys.
