Brandon “Tiny Doo” Duncan is set to receive a huge settlement from the City of San Diego after being wrongfully accused and coerced into the prison system.
The San Diego rapper was accused of nine counts of conspiracy to commit shootings that took place between 2013 and 2014.
Duncan and his associate Aaron Harvey, 31, were charged using a controversial gang law that uses discriminative tactics to detain civilians. The law mainly affects young people of color.
Duncan and Harvey were charged based on the 2000 California Penal Code 182.5 that criminalizes anyone who “promotes, assists or benefits from criminal gang activity”.
The assumption was that both Duncan and Harvey were benefitting from being associated with the Lincoln Park Gang to help build his rap career.
Although the charges were dropped in 2015 due to lack of evidence, the District Attorney office still maintains that Duncan, 38, is a member of the Lincoln Park Gang.
Duncan adamantly denies the allegations saying that the authorities made their assumptions based on his album No Safety, social media profiles and his record of police stops. The California rapper said that he had been stopped over 50 times by the police.
Both Duncan and Harvey filed a lawsuit against the City of San Diego after being imprisoned for seven months as a result of him not being able to pay the $500,000 bond, according to AllHipHop.com. They won a $1.475 million settlement, leaving each man with a total of $737,500.
Duncan is planning on using his traumatizing experience to become an activist and go to law school. He is working to repeal the controversial law.
“You can’t fight fire with fire with the system, but if you put yourself in the position to where now you have those types of jobs where you can make change in policy and laws, then that’s where you can make a difference. So, I feel it’s my obligation to put myself in that position to make a difference,” Duncan said to KPBS. “We’re going to repeal proposition 21 — we’re going to go after documentation laws.”
Now, it would be highly advisable to consider relocating the family and rolling deep. There’s been too many telling stories…including Tamel Dixon, Kalief Browder and the parents of Atatiana Jefferson, just to name a few.
In the paraphrased words of Boosie, sometimes you have to leave your town in order to avoid unnecessary adversity.
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