A Rap Pioneer Goes on Trial for Murder. Was It Calculated or Self-Defense?

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A Rap Pioneer Goes on Trial for Murder. Was It Calculated or Self-Defense?
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Opening statements began today in the murder trial of rap pioneer Kidd Creole of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Was it calculated murder or self-defense?

For more than four years, Glover has been detained on Rikers Island, a notorious jail complex awaiting trial. Glover finally had his day in court on Friday, when opening statements began in his case at Manhattan Supreme Court. Authorities have claimed that Glover had no reason to fear Jolly, let alone stab him to death. They intimated that Glover’s actions might have been motivated by homophobia.

Jolly was settling back into his spot when Glover started walking back towards him. “As they get face-to-face, the man sort of turns away from him and starts reaching into his left sleeve — and then the two of them go off [the building security] camera,” Dahl said. They are out of the frame for 14 seconds. Only one man, Jolly, reappears.

“So he took out his earphones, and said, ‘What did you say?’ And the man simply said, ‘What’s up?'” Dahl continued. “This kind of annoyed Mr. Glover because in his mind…when the man asked him ‘What’s up?’ he must have thought that Mr. Glover was gay, and probably hitting on him, and that annoyed him.”

In Celestin’s telling, as Glover got off the train, he saw a man who seemed off. Glover, who Celestin claims still carries anxiety from being robbed in 2005, hoped he could walk by without anything happening. “He has his earphones in, and the man says something to him,” Celestin said.

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