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Somebody practically slit the throat of disgraced rapper Diddy.
It’s potential that Trump may commute or pardon the rapper any day now.
Barring that, he’s headed to a jail the place his 50-month sentence will likely be just a little safer than his present, infamous jail.
Both method, he got here awfully near demise behind bars.
Diddy practically had his throat slit in jail
Charlucci Finney instructed The Each day Mail concerning the alleged knife incident involving Diddy.
One of many nights throughout which the disgraced rapper was sleeping at MDC Brooklyn, he awoke — with a bladed weapon pressed in opposition to his throat.
He was simply seconds away from having his throat slit, in response to the report.
Finney was unclear on the main points of how his buddy survived.
Nonetheless, Diddy’s legal professional Brian Metal instructed the choose {that a} guard stepped in, stopping the armed inmate.
Even Finney is fast to notice that the intention could not have been murder.
It’s potential that, notably at such an notorious jail facility, the assault was random.
However nobody appears to imagine that. Notorious rappers on trial for sensational crimes can simply change into targets.
And, Finney famous, individuals going through trial for heinous intercourse crimes are at added danger whereas incarcerated.
Although Diddy and Luigi Mangione are each at MDC Brooklyn, the character of their fees reportedly makes Mangione as in style behind bars as he’s in in the remainder of the nation. The identical, in a a lot darker sense, is true for the rapper.
Will he be getting a get-out-of-jail-free card? Possibly
As we now have beforehand reported, Diddy will serve a 50-month sentence in federal jail.
For no matter cause, the jury convicted him solely of the lesser fees — and never on intercourse trafficking or racketeering.
Even this previous summer season, the rapper hoped for a pardon from Donald Trump, who has made broad use of the chief clemency powers of his workplace.
(None extra controversial than pardoning the attackers who stormed the Capitol on January 6, however he’s come shut — flirting with the thought of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, for instance)
And, as we reported earlier this week, the rapper could possibly be on the receiving finish of this flagrant abuse of energy, too.
Notably, it was TMZ who first reported that Trump may subject a commutation of the rapper’s sentence as early as this week.
Curiously, the White Home has publicly denied that that is the case.
TMZ is standing by their reporting — like them or not, the tabloid is diligent on the subject of confirming their sources.
A pardon signifies that the recipient’s conviction is undone. Sure, a jury of their friends convicted them, however proof apart, they could go free. Trump did this for Todd and Julie Chrisley.
A commutation signifies that the conviction stands. Nonetheless, the sentence is changed by a lesser one — typically with the recipient going free. Trump did this for disgraced former congressman George Santos simply final week.
Incidents like this are unhealthy, even once they occur to Diddy
It’s so tempting to shrug off this near-death expertise as a result of it was Diddy.
Why, it’s straightforward to marvel, ought to we care what befalls an evil man?
However not everybody in jail or jail is evil. Some didn’t commit the crime for which they’re behind bars, and others did commit the deed however shouldn’t face incarceration for it.
And everybody behind bars — sure, even probably the most evil scum alive — must be protected whereas incarcerated.
Why? As a result of each jail, each jail, could have harmless individuals, could have first rate individuals, could have individuals who don’t deserve violence, concern, or ache.
As a society, we have to craft our prisons — from cells to showers and past — as we might if we knew, with no shadow of a doubt, {that a} good and harmless individual would spend years of their lives there. And we do, actually, know that.
