Right about now, Xscape singer, Tiny and her rapper-hubby, T.I., are probably pissed off over the new charges he’s just been hit with. Why? Because most people would be, if they were slapped with charges as bogus as the ones T.I. is facing.
What T.I. Has Been Charged With
In May 2018, T.I. was oddly arrested, following a verbal dispute with a security guard who was working at the front entrance of the Henry County, GA (a suburb outside Atlanta) gated community, where Tip and Tiny live with their kids. According to T.I., the guard not only disrespected his wife, Tiny, he also refused him entry into the community, because he’d left his key. The whole thing seemed suspect from the jump, but cops arrested Tip in his predominantly White neighborhood that day. Now, T.I has just been charged with three misdemeanor counts that could possible land him in prison, given that this ain’t his first brush with the law.
Prosecutors in Henry County charged the rapper with simple assault, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct stemming from his arrest back in May, when a security guard refused to let him into the premises. T.I.’s lawyer, Steve Sadow, tells TMZ the charges are “baseless, ill-founded and unjustified.” -via TMZ
The good news for T.I. and Tiny, is that according to legal experts, there’s a high possibility he could beat this case and avoid jail time altogether. That’s because there are so many loopholes in the security guard’s story. Also, Attorney Sadow, the guard, Euwan James, ” was fired for the way he handled the situation with T.I.” Now ain’t that a blip?!!
If the guard was fired over this and Tip has repeatedly maintained his innocence, why is this even a case? I could thing of several reasons why: (1) Sadly, celebs are oftentimes used, by law enforcement, to make examples out of them in the public’s eye; or maybe it’s (2) Celeb’ status could have nothing to do with it, and this is just another example of being Black in America; or (3) To be fair, I’ll play it politically correct as well, and say that T.I. could have possibly been wrong in and drunk in this scenario.
Given the actual claims and the footage of T.I. moments after the incident, the latter option sounds a tad farfetched, just as T.I. and his attorney have suggested.
At any rate, if you missed the prior coverage of what actually happened when both Tiny and T.I. asked the guard to let him enter their home, read on for the scoop…
What Had Happened Was…
After a verbal argument ensued between T.I. and the guard, T.I. says there were many facts missing from the police report, that the security guard did not tell officers, nor did the responding officers make an attempt to find out.
When the arrest report was initially made public in May, it was presented as if T.I. was a drunk as hell and irate that night. But in surveillance video from Harris County county jail, just minutes after he was arrested, T.I. was clearly not a drunken mess. In fact, he seemed very level headed – though annoyed- as he attempted to get answers from the White arresting officer, about why he was arrested. Check out the video up top.
It seems like T.I. just might be able to walk away from this case unscathed, but it’s such an inconvenience to have to spend money on unnecessary legal fees, over some BS like this.
