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Somebody almost slit the throat of disgraced rapper Diddy.
It’s doable that Trump might commute or pardon the rapper any day now.
Barring that, he’s headed to a jail the place his 50-month sentence shall be a bit safer than his present, infamous jail.
Both means, he got here awfully near demise behind bars.
Diddy almost had his throat slit in jail
Charlucci Finney informed The Every 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 small print of how his pal survived.
Nonetheless, Diddy’s legal professional Brian Metal informed the choose {that a} guard stepped in, stopping the armed inmate.
Even Finney is fast to notice that the intention might not have been murder.
It’s doable that, significantly 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 turn out to be targets.
And, Finney famous, individuals dealing with trial for heinous intercourse crimes are at added threat whereas incarcerated.
Although Diddy and Luigi Mangione are each at MDC Brooklyn, the character of their fees reportedly makes Mangione as fashionable 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? Perhaps
As we’ve 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 time, 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 concept of pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, for instance)
And, as we reported earlier this week, the rapper might be on the receiving finish of this flagrant abuse of energy, too.
Notably, it was TMZ who first reported that Trump might concern 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 in relation to 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 dangerous, 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 — ought to be secure whereas incarcerated.
Why? As a result of each jail, each jail, could have harmless individuals, could have respectable individuals, could have individuals who don’t deserve violence, worry, or ache.
As a society, we have to craft our prisons — from cells to showers and past — as we’d if we knew, with out a shadow of a doubt, {that a} good and harmless individual would spend years of their lives there. And we do, in reality, know that.
