He was not injured in the altercation and went to the police station near his home.
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“When you look in my wallet & see the name Che Smith on the ID”. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted back to Smith and apologized.
“On behalf of CPD, I apologize for how you were treated”, Guglielmi tweeted at the rapper.
A Chicago Police spokesperson says “We are disappointed with what we’ve seen and how Mr. Smith was treated, and the Chief of Patrol called him personally to apologize on behalf of the department”.
“I want Superintendent Eddie Johnson to explain what is wrong with the culture of Chicago policing when they are too desensitized to take crime reports that’s something that happened before Laquan McDonald”, said Rhymefest noting that an officer said they were “desensitized” from so many people coming in and reporting crimes.
“You were gonna shoot me in the face for a wallet”, he wrote. I work with the police. The officer tells him he can’t record inside the station. So Smith pulled out his phone and began filming. In a video he shared, he seems to have been faced with indifference from the officers on duty. “When the camera goes off, you start telling me to get out, I can’t make a report”.
When Rhymefest drove to the closest police station to report the crime, he said he was treated “disgustingly” and posted a video of the difficulties he was having with the local cops, in just filling out a report.
The incident appears to begin with a robbery on the city’s south side in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Rhymefest continued to the Sun-Times, “I have police officers that I ride motorcycles with, that are my good friends”. I work with the police. Another officer asks him to leave.
“I said ‘Oh, by the way, I have two Grammys and an Oscar”.
Smith has been a visible fixture in his Chicago community over the last several years, and is the Creative Director of Donda’s House, the non-profit created by Kanye West that supports young aspiring artists in Chicago. “I will help you get a job”.
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“I am in shock because I just had a gun to my head!” he tells them. They demanded that I give them my wallet. “But that’s not how it should be”. And he’d like the man that mugged him to turn himself in. “We will be addressing this today”. “I’m not even mad, I’m fuckin’ hurt”.
