Lil Nas X's Legal Battle Sheds Light on Charge Stacking
Many were stunned when footage surfaced this summer that appeared to show Lil Nas X walking naked along Los Angeles’s Ventura Boulevard. It was shortly before 6 a.m., and he was rapping a verse from the song “Monster.”
“So let me get this straight, wait, I’m the rookie? But my features and my shows 10 times your pay?” he said, quoting Nicki Minaj’s lines from the Kanye West track.
But to some, more surprising were the crimes the 26-year-old rapper and pop star was charged with shortly after the Aug. 21 incident, where authorities accused him of assaulting officers. The musician, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, now faces four felony charges: three counts of battery with injury on a police officer, and one count of resisting an executive officer.
“Four felony counts seems excessive,” one person wrote recently on social media.
The post sparked an online conversation about charge stacking — which is when prosecutors file multiple criminal charges against a defendant for the same incident — and the disproportionate impact this practice has on Black Americans.
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