Two sheriff’s deputies have been caught threatening to shoot LA rapper Feezy Lebron on camera.
According to Streetsblog LA, the two deputies approached Feezy in Crenshaw and threatened to strike him in the chest. He captured their alleged interaction via Instagram Live and included their names to have them fired.
“Let’s get this guy’s face out there before he gets a chance to MURDER a young Black male sitting in his PARKED car…unarmed,” his Dec. 15 Instagram post said. He also revealed the deputies’ names in the clip as Jacob Ruiz and Justin Sabatine.
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Feezy continued, saying they approached him while he was sitting in the parking lot with the car engine off. There’s currently conflicting information on where he was parked as one report said he was at his friend’s private lot, and another said he was at a strip mall lot.
“Take off in this car, and I’m gonna shoot you,” Sabatine was allegedly heard saying on audio footage, Feezy said. “I’m gonna make it super easy on you: if you put this car in drive, you’re getting one right to the chest.”
“You gonna shoot me for sitting – for sitting in a car?” the rapper replied.
“You gonna comply or no?” an agitated Sabatine said.
“Comply [with] what?” Feezy fired back.
“If you move your hands from right there, you’re in trouble. You are most definitely one thousand fifty percent detained,” Sabatine responded.
Per his IG post, Feezy said officers assumed the artist would drive off, prompting them to harass him allegedly.
“He was already escalated,” he said about Sabatine. “I’m hearing his voice, and it’s like he’s got so much rage – almost like roid rage – so I just want to not escalate it. But at the same time, I do want to understand why this is happening. As you can see in the video, though, he really couldn’t give me an answer [about the justification for the stop].”
Much to Feezy fans’ dismay, the LA County Sheriff’s Department hasn’t responded to the incident yet, even though it was caught on camera. They’ve been on Twitter demanding the two officers involved be disciplined.
