Tory Lanez does his first interview from jail since being sentenced to 10 years for taking pictures Megan Thee Stallion. He insists he was wrongfully convicted and desires somebody within the system to take a look at the proof and “ask if this was truthful.”
On Thursday (Dec. 18), Tory Lanez spoke to NBC Information amid his deliberate attraction after being convicted of the 2020 taking pictures. He is searching for launch from jail. The rapper is at present incarcerated at California Males’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, Calif. and has already served three years of his 10-year sentence.
“There’s positively a really large false impression about me that appears to the general public as I am this monster,” Tory says. “I really feel like I used to be catapulted into this poster youngster for the unprotection of Black girls, and it is simply so in contrast to me. And I’ve by no means actually had an opportunity to precise that.”
The Canadian native claims he would not have a report of violence in opposition to girls. “I’ve by no means been violent in the direction of girls,” he insists. “I’d by no means hit a girl, not to mention shoot a girl.”
For the reason that taking pictures incident occurred in 2020, and the 2022 trial for the fees in opposition to him, Tory has proclaimed his innocence. After being discovered responsible of assault with semiautomatic weapon, private use of a firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car, Tory feels he was wrongfully convicted.
“I consider not solely that I used to be wrongfully convicted, however the quantity of recent proof that has emerged since that trial, I feel, has been overwhelming,” he maintains.
When requested what he would say to Megan Thee Stallion proper now, Tory revealed he’d wish to have a second to deal with her in particular person quite than by way of an interview.
“I feel that I would not say one thing on to her,” Tory added. “I would really like that second to occur in particular person. We have each gone by way of quite a bit. There’s this connotation that, like I share this hatred for her, however I do not. I am genuinely previous that. I am at a spot of therapeutic in my life. I am at a spot of taking accountability for the issues that I did mistaken. And after I speak about my case, I do not need it to be taken as me coming for her as a result of it isn’t that. I am simply asking for any person within the system to take a look at my case and take a look at the proof and ask if this was truthful.”
Tory Lanez’s workforce plans to file a number of appeals subsequent week.
Watch Tory Lanez’s Converse on Megan Thee Stallion and Preventing to Enchantment His Conviction
