{"id":224618,"date":"2019-07-26T15:52:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224618"},"modified":"2019-07-26T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:52:38","slug":"swedish-court-documents-give-details-on-aap-rocky-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/26\/swedish-court-documents-give-details-on-aap-rocky-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish court documents give details on A$AP Rocky case\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224619\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AAP-Rocky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224619\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AAP-Rocky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: IGOR @ MIDNIGHT NIGGA!!! LOL (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxiuSHznbq6\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/asaprocky\/\">asaprocky\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">HELSINKI &#8211; Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two other men are facing charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">Prosecutors say the victim was punched and kicked while on the ground and attacked with a bottle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">Court documents state that Rakim Mayers, the 30-year-old rapper&#8217;s real name, and two other suspects \u201cdeliberately, together and in agreement\u201d assaulted the victim in central Stockholm on June 30th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">The 500 pages of documents, in which prosecutors also said that Rocky pushed the man to the ground, included photos of the victim&#8217;s injuries \u2014 mostly cuts and bruises \u2014 and blood-stained clothes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">The rapper, who has been in custody since July 2nd, claims it was self-defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">The case has sparked an unusual diplomatic spat between the U-S and Sweden, after President Donald Trump called for Rocky to be released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">After Rocky was charged yesterday, Trump fired off two sharply-worded tweets, calling on Sweden to \u201cTreat Americans fairly!\u201d and criticizing Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, whom he had personally lobbied, \u201cfor being unable to act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">A Lofven spokesman responded by emphasizing the independence of the Swedish judicial system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">Rocky, a platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated artist who has collaborated with Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B, Drake and Selena Gomez, has been in custody as authorities investigate the fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\">The case has also drawn the attention of a long list of celebrities, including Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, Justin Bieber and Kim Kardashian West.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELSINKI &#8211; Swedish authorities have released court documents in the assault case in which American rapper A$AP Rocky and two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":224619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-jari-tanner","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224621,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224618\/revisions\/224621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}