Rhymefest Robbed at Gunpoint, Shares Video From Police Station
Rhymefest, born Che Smith, says he was robbed at gunpoint in Chicago yesterday. According to the police report (via The Chicago Tribune), a young man jumped into his parked car, pointed a gun at him, and demanded that he hand over his wallet. “To the young brother that put the gun to my head this morning & took my wallet. You don’t know how you just damaged your community,” Smith says in the below tweets. “It’s 7:30 a.m. You just put a gun in my face for $3 in my wallet. I defend you against police brutality, I work on your behalf, you robbed me.” He goes on to call for the man who robbed him to get in touch, apologize, and talk it out with him. Find the tweets below.
Several hours later, Smith tweeted out a video he took from inside his local police station, where he went to report the robbery. The video appears to show police personnel asking Smith to leave the station before he could properly report the robbery, and was captioned, “You wonder why we don’t report crimes? The police treated me disgustingly.” Find that video below. Since the video was uploaded, Chicago Police Department communications director Anthony Guglielmi has apologized to Smith on Twitter on behalf of the CPD. Smith replied, asking Guglielmi to sit down with him for a conversation about how to “better police our communities.”
To the young brother that put the gun to my head this morning & took my wallet. You don’t know how you just damaged your community.
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
It’s 730am. you just put a gun in my face for $3 in my wallet. I defend you against police brutality, I work on your behalf you robbed me
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
Until our communities have restorative Justice set up, you better make friends with a police officer.
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
You don’t know what you did! And who you did it to. I lived here on the southside because I thought it mattered. I’m reconsidering
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
You were gonna shoot me in the face for a wallet, I had the power to give you a job!
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
I’m not even mad, I’m fuckin’ hurt.
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
When you look in my Wallet & see the name Che Smith on the ID. DM me, yes contact me apologize and talk to me like a brother.
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
Give me faith that it’s our desperation & not our hearts thatre dark. The man who robbed me I want to reach out to me If I know him tell him
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
You wonder we don’t report crimes? The police treated me disgustingly pic.twitter.com/fY9VQrqDpz
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
@RHYMEFEST disappointing to say the least. On behalf of CPD, I apologize for how you were treated. We will be addressing this today.
— Anthony Guglielmi (@AJGuglielmi) August 27, 2016
@AJGuglielmi I would like to bring young people I work with and help you find solutions to help better Police our communities.
— Rhymefest (@RHYMEFEST) August 27, 2016
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