*Is rapper T.I. being harassed by the federal government? Well to a lot of folks, including Project Islamic H.O.P.E.’s Najee Ali, it certainly looks that way. In fact, Ali is doing something about it.
Ali, Executive Director of Project Islamic H.O.P.E., has filed a federal complaint With U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s office concerning the Grammy award winning artist (whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr.) who was remanded back into federal custody due to an issue with his mode of transportation to an Atlanta halfway house less than 24 hours after he was released from an Arkansas prison.
“This is a clear abuse of power by Federal Bureau of Prisons officials. If T.I. wanted to leave prison on a flying carpet that should have been his choice,” Ali said in a statement to EUR. “What’s even more hypocritical is that prison staff posed in front of the tour bus that T.I. used to ride back to Atlanta in. Were calling for Attorney General Holder to intervene and have T.I. released from custody and to investigate why T.I. was remanded back into federal custody.”
Ali points out that the public can also contact A.G. Holder at his office via phone (202-514-2001) or email (AskDOJ@usdoj.gov) to file a complaint.
Najee Ali
You got to be kidding me….all the injustice dont to black people in this country and he’s wasting his time with a fool like TI. This leads me to believe this mofo is only looking for headlines.
“We’re calling for Attorney General Holder to intervene and have T.I. released from custody and to investigate why T.I. was remanded back into federal custody.”
Did this negroe lost his mind?
You expect Eric Holder of the Obama admin to intervene on behalf of a black man?!
That would be the day.
Do your research and see the people that OBAMA has pardoned since being in office. They wer mostly black…..smdh…. some people use any opportunity to bash with merit.
“bash WITHOUT merit”
Did someone say pardon and Obama in the same sentence?!
No Shyt?
So you want to talk about doing research on pardon. Where does Obama’s pardon record stands in comparison to other presidents?
Other than George Bush and George Washington, Obama has the worst pardon record.
You claim that he pardoned so many people, but his punk azz didn’t pardon Lynn Stewart or Jack Johnson.
Lynn Stewart. That’s the same 70 year old civil rights lawyer now rotting in jail, because Bush got her sentenced to 10 years on bogus charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists. Every Democrat “knew” that Obama would pardon this woman the minute he set foot in office. Not.
As George Lardner, an associate at the Center for the Study of the Presidency noted, “It’s difficult to understand why the president has been so unwilling to grant any clemency. As someone who has taught constitutional law, he knows that the founders gave him, and him alone, the power “to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment.” It is likely that he also knows that a disproportionate number of federal prisoners are black, that mandatory sentencing guidelines have left many of them with excessive sentences and that at least a few of them deserve clemency, whether they’ve asked for it or not.”
So I guess we can safely say that anybody like Jack Johnson, who defied white people, or Lynn Stewart, who stood up against the reprobate neo-cons, will not get a pardon from a Republican lap dog like Obama.
I’m not going along with your view of them not doing anything for a black man but why waste time on T.I.? They already gave his ass a break, if they wanted to hem him u they would have done so in the beginning. To hell with T.I., he’s not doing the time he should have been doing in the first place. This negro doesn’t know how to keep his nose clean.
Im in disagreement with you as any mistreatment of our people should not be tolerated, I will not throw my brother to YT just bcuz he messed up, he paid his dues and should be treated as such. The problem with our people is we write someone off and say well they deserve what YT does to them, I disagree. If you do the crime yes you should do the time but afterward you should not be harrassed period!
Write him off? His ass got a break from the gun charges in the beginning and what did he do? His dumb ass got caught with drugs. You think he deserves another chance? His ass should have been doing major time in the first place, I wouldn’t waste my time trying to get him another break. If they wanted to give him a lot of time they could have. He didn’t pay his dues, he got a break. I say we put our efforts towards black people that really have been railroaded.
I will always remember a time BET had some special show on and TIP told this sister,who could have been his aunt or mother, that she should be glad he was making music cause if he wasnt, she should be worried,like he would rob her or something.This dude has been in jail a lot since that remark,karma maybe.I think that there is more to this story, I’ve read that TI misrepresented his mode of transportation in some paperwork he signed and turned in before his release,so apparently there is some law he broke,would be nice if some outlet looked into it and told of what law he broke, instead of giving us half the story.
ALI, freshly released from a 3 year stint in jail because of some nonsense on his part(trying to bribe a witness in a case involving his daughter), lives in Los Angeles.lot of things here going on that needs some attention,but for many he has little credibility and this act will probably decrease it more.Soop I agree with you.And once again Reds turns this (and anything) into a negative Obama rant.
Some reasons why ALI has little cred
FROM LA TIMES AUG 2008
Najee Ali, known as an outspoken critic of law enforcement, was sentenced to four years in state prison Monday after pleading guilty to trying to bribe a witness in his daughter’s criminal case.
The 45-year-old former gang member turned community activist tried to tamper with a witness in January outside his daughter’s preliminary hearing in Alhambra, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Ali would have received two years in prison, but a prior robbery conviction in 1992 doubled his time to four years, Gibbons said. The judge also found that Ali had violated his probation in a 2004 case in which he was convicted of felony hit-and-run and perjury.
In 2004, he was sentenced to five years’ probation and 1,000 hours of community service after he left the scene of a car accident. After his vehicle collided with another at Crenshaw and Martin Luther King boulevards, he fled into a nearby movie theater.
At the time, he was free on bail on charges of identity theft.
Ali has feuded with other activists and civic leaders. In 2006, he persuaded a Superior Court judge to issue a temporary restraining order against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), accusing the congresswoman of threatening him. In turn, Waters accused Ali of stalking her and got a temporary restraining order against him.
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This dude cant lead himself,let alone our people but eurweb continues to give him publicity.WHY???!!!!!
Ali is the number one Black activist in L.A and one the top activists nationally, white folks have come after him with all these trumped up charges, from the gang truces to his social and poltical activism this brother is the truth !..I live in South Central when Black folks have problems Ali is alaways there . we have never heard of Nytola conect..lmao.. where is your work ? you hide behind a computer. But Ali is always outfront leading the charge…. I read EUR to see whats Ali is doing ! Stop hating if he had no credibility you would just ignore him as well as EUR…but since you spending time and extra energy on Ali, its clear your a jealous hater,…lol
Thank you Najee Ali. Wasnt able to log in this week,however I had to respond.So this guy is a criminal and for stupid bs numerous times and I am a hater,Black Power,there is a word for you,but I’m not into name calling . Funny. Btw I spoke to Ali and politely told him about some things he was doing,he got upset at first but later came back and said I was right,but then went out and did more foolish stuff.,this was when the Inglewood cop slammed the young brother’s head into his patrol car and the community marched on the Inglewood Police Dept.