It is not a coincidence that as Megan Thee Stallion was launching her latest venture —a swimwear line through Walmart —Tory Lanez decided to launch another misinformation campaign designed to stoke anger towards her.
Tory and his lawyers recently launched the site “36 Hours Later,” which includes supposed evidence that exonerates him. This alleged new evidence includes bodycam footage and witness statements alleging that Megan’s former friend, Kelsey Harris, was the actual shooter. There is also a video, which has already circulated widely, that depicts Megan Thee Stallion explaining to police officers that she wasn’t shot, but glass-injured.
“I really cannot go to jail. I cannot have that on my image…” she is heard saying.
Tory Lanez can be heard in that same video reassuring her, saying, “I was just trying to help my girlfriend. Mego don’t worry it’s gonna be okay.”
For some on the internet – presumably those who struggle with critical thinking – this site caused them to question whether Megan was even shot at all. This, despite Megan telling us years ago on the internet and later in trial that she initially tried to protect Tory, her shooter, from police, by saying that she wasn’t shot. There is also the photographic evidence of her foot being shot that was presented in court.
BECAUSE HE SHOT HER.
All this site does is repackage the same claims made a month ago at the press conference his lawyers held that generated a lot of buzz in the he-man woman-hating corners of the internet, but didn’t make any kind of noise in a courtroom.
Megan’s attorney, Alex Spiro, quickly dismissed claims made on the site by Tory and his legal team.
“Tory Lanez’s team can’t keep a story straight.” Spiro said. “Last week, they argued that Kelsey Harris shot Megan and now, they’re claiming that Megan only stepped on glass. They continue to rehash old evidence from trial and re-package it as new information to desperately sway public opinion.”
Additionally, Meg’s legal team released a 31-page presentation countering Tory’s claims, stressing how, again, much of this so-called new evidence was already presented at trial.
To remind Tory and the others falling for his lies, they presented him with the text messages in which he apologized to Megan shortly after the shooting, ring camera audio capturing five gun shots, and DNA evidence indicating a 90% probability that the male DNA on the firearm belonged to…Tory Lanez.
BECAUSE HE SHOT HER.
Members of Megan’s legal team have even stepped into The Shade Room recently in order to further penetrate the wave of disinformation Tory and his team have flooded in those spaces.
Other journalists who followed the trial are doing their part to swat away Tory’s lies as well.
BECAUSE HE SHOT HER.
I pray their efforts will help stop some of the more embarrassing displays of Tory Lanez from various celebrities as of late stop already.
Like Nicci Gilbert from Brownstone, who in a recent interview with BHighTV, expressed regret for rushing to judgment and said that her initial shock over the allegations led her to “jump on” the “shame on him bandwagon.”
“I was wrong,” Gilbert said. “I jumped on the bandwagon without fully understanding the case.”
“I want to say this. If there was evidence that was suppressed. If there was any possibility that Tory did not do this, that man deserves a retrial,” she added.
If Nicci Gilbert wants to issue public apologies, consider one of her former castmates on R&B Divas, not the Canadian menace trying to further torment the woman he victimized.
Tory Lanez has already been denied a new trial, which is likely why stars such as Drake, Chris Brown, Ty Dolla Sign, Kanye West, Amber Rose, Kodak Black, Trippi Redd, among others, have been promoting the Change.org petition calling on Governor Newsom to pardon him.
It’s not coincidental that the famous people rallying behind a famous person accused of harming a woman are famous men who have been accused of harming women or are women known for supporting abusive men.
Their lil’ petition has over 382,000 signatures, but if I could set that petition on fire, I would.
If I could revoke the internet status of each signator, I would.
If anyone can save Megan Thee Stallion from continuing to be tormented by this exhausting menace who can’t accept the consequences of his actions, they should immediately.
I’m sure some who signed feel bad that Lanez was recently stabbed in prison by another inmate, but even the stories behind that incident are fanciful.
Nothing this man says ought to be trusted because Tory Lanez is a liar, as proven in court, and years before it, on the internet.
For all the noise he seeks to make, Tory Lanez will stay in prison until the end of his sentence.
This is all nothing more than a pathetic attempt to rile up the Negro incenl community to generate a public pressure campaign against Megan Thee Stallion and the legal system.
My anger is rooted in how successful it has been concerning Megan.
Megan expressed frustration over the internet’s treatment of her on May 20 in a post to TikTok.
“At what point are yall gonna stop making me have to re live being shot BY TORY !?” she asked. “At what point are Tory and yall FANS gonna stop lying? Like how much is the check to keep harassing me? Why is this happening EVERY DAY??”
You could see many of the comments under the posts intended to celebrate the launch of her line.
Those negative comments have scaled back a bit as more of her fans, us Hotties, drown out the hate.
But she shouldn’t have to still live like this.
Addressing Tory directly, Megan concluded her statement with: “YOU SHOT ME !! Ain’t no new fucking evidence yall been saying the same shit for years. TORY PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE you a fucking demon. I’m off this silly ass internet shit, BYE.”
I’ve written about abusive men in culture and politics for a long time now, and I have never seen so many people rally behind such a marginally talented man that’s done nothing but shoot a woman.
Much as I do fault misinformation, I mostly marvel at how much misogyny is at the root of so many choosing willful ignorance and siding with Tory Lanez.
As long as I’ve been writing, I still struggle with the words to illustrate just how depressing I find this reality that no matter what facts are thrown at them, some of my people are choosing to side with an abuser.
Michael Arceneaux is a New York Times bestselling author whose most recent book, “I Finally Bought Some Jordans,” was published last March.
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