Last week, Kennedy Marie, a 7-year-old girl, was hit in the head by a stray bullet in Atlanta’s Buckhead district, and she succumbed to her injury on the day after Christmas. The devasting news prompted legendary producer Jermain Dupri to vent about his frustration with senseless killings and call for tougher policing via his social media platforms.
While the Atlanta hip-hop mogul’s comment might’ve come from a genuine place of concern, the message in whole was ill-received by audiences online.
In a now-deleted tweet, which was captured by folks on social media, the So So Def owner wrote in a post, “If you really from the A, it’s time for us to come together and stop all this shooting sh-t at Lenox and now Phipps.” The producer added, “the police need to get tougher, the profiling needs to go to code red and I can give a f-ck about y’all getting mad about me saying this, lil kids getting shot is wack.”
