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Court Transcript Demonetized By Google As Dangerous in #6ix9ine Story by Inner City Press

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Thread Scope
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, March 7 – Inner City Press has been covering the trial involving Daniel Hernandez a/k/a Tekashi 6ix9ine, who was sentenced to 24 months of total imprisonment on December 18, 2019 in a proceeding live tweeted by Inner City Press before U.S. District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.

  Now on March 7, Google has written to Inner City Press saying that ad serving has been disabled due to "Dangerous or derogatory content." Photo here.

  After some inquiry, this was tied to an Inner City Press article from September 24, 2019 which included a court exhibit, a transcript including both the F-word and the N-word. These are court documents, but to Google, they are grounds to de-monetize. So how does one report accurately on the courts? Watch this site.

 On February 17 the US Attorney's Office asked Judge Engelmayer to sentence one of the two defendants convicted at trial with 69's testimony, Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack, to at least thirty years in prison.

 On February 24, Inner City Press live-tweeted the more than three hour sentencing proceeding, here.  Judge Engelmayer came out at a sentencing guideline of 235 to 293 months. As well as reading from apparently every letter received, Judge Engelmayer said that not accepting responsibility, going to trial despite extensive audio and other evidence, militated years higher than he would otherwise have gone.

  He compare Mack to Jamel Jones, noting that Jamel not Nuke was caught on take threatening to "super-violated" #6ix9ine but also had less of a criminal history. He cited Mack robbing Roland Martin of a Range Rover and a Rolex, brandishing a gun. He focused on selling fentanyl as heroin.

  Judge Engelmayer imposed a sentence on Aljermiah Mack of 204 months or 17 years. The government urged that it not be on the East Coast but Judge Engelmayer proposed near NYC, pending language to be submitted by defense attorney Louis Fasulo overnight.

 Anthony "Harv" Elisson's sentencing has been pushed back to April 1. Inner City Press will be there.

  On February 12 another of 69's initial co-defendants Fuguan Lovick a/k/a Fu Banga entered in shackles for sentencing by Judge Engelmayer. Inner City Press aimed to at least partially live tweet, but it was not possible: no phone use in courtroom and for various reasons not otherwise possible. The government was asking for a sentence of from 90 to 96 months in jail, 84 of them for pleading guilty to shooting a gun at the Barclay's Center in downtown Brooklyn. Lovick declined to speak (he had written a letter); his lawyer Jeffrey Pittel asked for one day on Count 6.

   Judge Engelmayer noted that while Lovick had a number of run ins with the law since 1999, none in the past seven years, and jobs in Home Depot and construction. His father made him sell heroin; he witnessed a murder on the way to school.

  As to the shot, Judge Engelmayer said that Daniel Hernandez was to give a performance and Lovick shot a gun over the heads of a rival rapper's entourage.

 Judge Engelmayer: "I should say that many shots taken in the Barclays Center miss" - then he credited Lovick with missing his gun shot on purpose, but still said it was dangerous. He imposed a sentence of 85 months, then three years of Supervised Release, in Connecticut where Lovick's son lives. He wished Lovick, and two relatives in the gallery, well. And Inner City Press, prohibited from live tweeting the thoughtful sentencing, ran and wrote this. We'll have more, including on April 1.

Inner City Press covered the trial Hernandez testified at, and the other sentencings in the case and will continue to. The case is US v. Jones, 18-cr-834 (Engelmayer). More on Patreon here.

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