A Stockholm court will rule Wednesday on whether A$AP Rocky is guilty of assault over a street brawl in a case that has outraged fans and stoked diplomatic tensions.
At his first performance following his release on Sunday, Aug. 11, in Anaheim in California, the rapper thanked fans and called the experience in Sweden “scary” and “humbling.”
The plaintiff, a Swedish resident born in Afghanistan, alleged he was attacked by Mayers and his entourage when he followed them to ask about a headphone set broken in an earlier scuffle with the rapper’s bodyguard.Suneson called for a six-month sentence, saying Mayers did not seem scared as he had claimed, and there had been no need for self-defense.
Martinsson said Mayers would likely either receive a suspended sentence and a fine or a shorter sentence deemed already served on remand.In one video clip of the brawl published by American celebrity news outlet TMZ, the rapper can be seen throwing a young man to the ground and aiming several punches at him while he is down.
Mayers appears to repeatedly ask the man and his friend to stop following him and his entourage. The prosecution argued that the Instagram videos were heavily edited.
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