{"id":27631,"date":"2019-07-25T08:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1054103"},"modified":"2019-07-25T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T14:14:43","slug":"aap-rocky-officially-charged-with-assault-following-fight-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/aap-rocky-officially-charged-with-assault-following-fight-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Officially Charged With Assault Following Fight in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE<\/strong>: After nearly 3 weeks behind bars abroad, A$AP Rocky<\/strong> has been charged with assault by Swedish prosecutors.<\/p>\n

He will remain in custody until the trail begins next week. He faces a maximum of two years in prison or a fine based on his daily earnings. Two members of the rapper’s entourage are also facing trial.<\/p>\n

According to public prosecutor Daniel Suneson<\/strong>, the June 30 attack constitutes “a crime…despite claims of self-defense and provocation.”<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: Nearly 130,000 individuals, including prominent figures within the music industry, have signed a petition<\/a> demanding the release of rapper A$AP Rocky from Swedish officials following his arrest on Wednesday, July 6. <\/p>\n

Travis Scott<\/a><\/strong>, Shawn Mendes<\/a><\/strong>, Tyler the Creator<\/strong>, G-Eazy<\/a><\/strong>and more artists have expressed support for the social media movement #JusticeForRocky after news broke that he would remain in custody for two more weeks while authorities investigated the assault claims against him. <\/p>\n

The hip-hop star’s manager addressed the incident on Instagram<\/a>, claiming Rocky is being held in a “horrific” facility with “24\/7 solitary confinement” and “unsanitary conditions.”<\/p>\n

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A$AP Rocky was arrested for gross assault in Sweden on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to the Swedish Prosecution Office, the arrest took place around 1:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The rapper is currently in custody. Under Swedish law, he could be held for up to three days before seeing a judge.<\/p>\n

The arrest appeared to be in relation to an incident that took place on Sunday and seemed to stem from a dispute over a pair of headphones. The “Kids Turned Out Fine” star posted footage from what appeared to be the same incident on Instagram Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The clip showed the artist and his crew interacting with two men on the streets of Stockholm and then attempting to walk away.<\/p>\n

“We don’t know these guys and we didn’t want trouble,” part of his caption read, adding that the men allegedly followed them for four blocks.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The Grammy nominee also shared a second clip in which things got physical between one of the men and a member of A$AP Rocky’s security team. <\/p>\n

“Hits security in [the] face with headphones then follow us,” he captioned the footage.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The celebrity also wrote “I’m innocent” in the comments section, as well as “They trynna arrest me out here now, smh.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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TMZ<\/a> also obtained footage that appeared to show the rapper grabbing and throwing one of the men.<\/p>\n

According to CBS News<\/a>, three other people have been arrested in relation to the incident.<\/p>\n

E! News has reached out to A$AP Rocky’s rep for comment.<\/p>\n

(This story was originally published Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 8:24 a.m. PST)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Daniele Venturelli\/Daniele Venturelli\/ Getty Images for Gucci UPDATE: After nearly 3 weeks behind bars abroad, A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault by Swedish prosecutors. He will remain in custody until the trail begins next week. He faces a maximum of two years in prison or a fine based on his daily earnings. Two members of the rapper’s entourage are also facing trial. According to public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-16 12:47:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}