Meek Mill Loses Civil Suit Against Philadelphia Police

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Spotted on Philly.com:

The local rapper known as Meek Mill repeated two words over and over Thursday after losing his civil rights lawsuit against two city police officers he accused of detaining him illegally two years ago.

“I quit,” Robert Williams said, bolting from the courtroom moments after a federal jury delivered its verdict. “I quit everything . . . except for music.”

The 26-year-old North Philadelphia native made a hasty exit from the federal courthouse, leaving his attorneys behind.

“They ain’t from where I’m from,” Williams said of the jurors in a brief elevator interview. “I don’t really expect them to understand.”

Earlier, Williams’ attorney, Dennis Cogan, had asked the panel to award his client more than $400,000 over a 10-hour detention on Oct. 31, 2012.
The delay and Williams’ subsequent detainment, Cogan said, caused the rapper to miss his flight to an important party to launch his debut album, cost him potential endorsement money, and tarnished his reputation among his fans.

“I’m not saying, feel sorry for his financial situation,” Cogan said. “But the law is the law.”

But the eight-member panel, made up mostly of white jurors, – took less than two hours to reject those claims, finding that police had not violated Williams’ civil rights.

“Although we voted unanimously that Mr. Williams’ Fourth Amendment rights were not violated, we feel strongly both the plaintiff and defendant were in the wrong and made mistakes,” the panel wrote to the judge. Outside court, jurors declined to comment on what they meant by that.

You can read plenty more here.

Meek Mill Sues Philadelphia Police Over 2012 Arrest

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From TMZ:

Meek Mill says the Philly P.D. screwed him out of a multi-million dollar shoe contract … and now he’s suing the City of Brotherly Love to get his cash back.

According to the lawsuit, Meek claims his Halloween 2012 arrest was total BS because even though cops claimed they smelled pot in his car … they ultimately came up with zilch. Meek says he was cuffed for refusing to let cops search — and he ended up missing a private jet flight to Atlanta.

Meek claims he lost $22k on the cancelled jet and a $39K appearance fee for the A-Town party he missed.

In the docs, he also claims he took a hit in negotiating a $2 million deal with Puma because all the negative pub from the arrest … forced him to settle for a mere $650K.

Meek is suing the city of Philly for false imprisonment, invasion of privacy … and most importantly (we suspect) to get back some of that lost dough.

Meek Mill Helps Cancer Patient Raise Money For Medical Bills

I went 2 the link & I Didn’t even have 2 it’s enough good people out here #godblessher #fuckcancer her dream is way more worth than our money!

Some good rapper news for your Sunday, spotted on Vlad TV:

A young woman named Gilliane Chrisphonte started a fund raiser at GoFundMe.com in order to help raise money to battle her Lymphoma. Meek Mill — in cooperation with popular charity Robin Hood — donated to the young woman himself, as well as posting a link to her fund page on his Instagram, helping her to surpass her $12,000 goal.

Mill has chosen not to publicize exactly how much he gave.