A pair of star rappers spoke on the funeral of an Atlanta teenager who was the sufferer of gun violence at a commencement celebration. Atlanta law enforcement officials stated there was a capturing at a commencement social gathering within the car parking zone of Mays Excessive Faculty on Might 28 round 2:30 a.m., Fox5 reported. On account of the capturing, 16-year-old Bre’Asia Powell died and a 16-year-old boy was hospitalized for his wounds.
“What I do wish to say to the youth and the youthful technology … I’m with y’all- we have now to vary,” Lil Child stated on the service. “I’m saying that as a ‘we’ …,” he continued in a clip uploaded by ALL URBAN CENTRAL.
“Loads of occasions when individuals speak, it’s [focused] on youthful males, however I’m talking for the females and the males as a result of the females might make the males suppose this and that’s cool and it’s not. The younger boys [are] doing this and that to show to the neighborhood that they’re cool. When all of it, ultimately, isn’t cool. The identical lady that was with you goes to be with the opps if you go to jail.”
Younger Dro additionally shared some phrases on the service.
“Get you some pals to push you to your potential,” Dro stated, in a clip uploaded by Fox 5, “and you need to hear to those adults, too.”
Dro has spent the previous yr talking to colleges and advocating in a number of interviews to place a cease to gun violence. In January, Dro advised B Excessive TV the loss of life of Takeoff was the ultimate straw for him with regard to sitting again and watching gun violence proceed to grow to be extra prevalent.
Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens, an alum of Benjamin E. Mays Excessive Faculty himself, has additionally spoken out about Powell’s loss of life.
“This younger girl was vigorous, and was really anticipated to be working for the Metropolis of Atlanta on [May 30] in our summer season youth employment program,” Dickens stated in a Might 28 press convention. “We ask in your prayers and coronary heart to exit to those households. My workers has been involved with them in addition to myself … however what we wish to specific to you is, younger individuals, we would like you to be secure. We wish you to make high quality choices about the place you spend your time and who you spend your time with.
“Late within the night, after midnight … discover a manner to return residence versus a option to discover one other vacation spot to go hang around and social gathering.”
The identification of the 16-year-old boy who was additionally injured has not been launched, however Dickens stated his situation is “secure” within the Might 28 press convention.
