Young Thug again denied bond after a four-hour hearing.
Young Thug, who was arrested last month with Gunna and other YSL members as part of a 56-Count RICO Charge, appeared in Fulton County, Ga. court for another bond hearing. The whole thing went over for over four hours in which Thugger appeared from a closed-circuit video from the Cobb County Jail.
In between the lengthy hearing, the “So Much Fun” rapper asked the judge to use the restroom, when the people sitting in the court started laughing. “Excuse me your honor, May I use the restroom or I need to be here, I been holding for a long time,” he said. “It’s not funny,” the judge told the people that were laughing and gave a 5-minute break to the rapper. After the break, the judge made a statement that people who will not behave properly will be removed from the court.
After the recess from the bathroom break, the judge returned and checked those in the courtroom who laughed when Thug askedpic.twitter.com/smLeD5nKVK
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The rapper has been denied bond after the prosecution in the case mentioned Thug’s ability to flee, and threatening the witnesses. The prosecutors also cite witnesses who are members of YSL providing “proffers” that Thug is the leader of the organization. “There have been significant proffers about Mr. Willams being a danger to the community,” Judge Ural D. Glanville said. “In particular, the state’s proffer that they have spoken… taken proffers from other gang members and people who are in this particular indictment and not in this indictment that [Young Thug] is the leader of the gang, he is dangerous, and if he crosses them, he will kill them or their families.”
Several YSL members took proffers against Young Thug including some that are indicted with him. pic.twitter.com/zjdTAMu9Sn
— muliani (@MulianiEnt) June 2, 2022
Machine Gun Kelly and Kevin Liles, a record executive and co-founder of 300 Entertainment, were among those who requested the court to allow Thug to be freed on bail. “I’m willing to back him personally and professionally,” Liles said during the hearing, per Coscarelli.
twist: Machine Gun Kelly is among the people who provided videos to the court in favor of Young Thug’s bond, speaking to his role in the community
— Joe Coscarelli (@joecoscarelli) June 2, 2022
Prosecutors also used lyrics from Thug’s “So Much Fun” song “Just How It Is” to argue that the rapper should not be freed on bail during the hearing. The following lines were read from the track: “Ask the cops, ask the detectives, they know all the business/Ask the cops and the detectives, all the jurisdictions/Ask the kids at school who ambition all the missions/Gave the lawyer close to two mil’, he handle all the killings.”
