*Meek Mill sat down with CBS This Morning’s Gayle King for an in-depth interview about his experiences with the broken criminal justice system, and how it has motivated him to push for reform.Â
“If you take a drone right now in Philadelphia and you put it on the main line of the suburbs and you put it on the main line of the ghetto, you would see there’s two Americas,” he said of the sociopolitical layout of Philadelphia, via Complex. “You would see chaos on one side and you would see people going to their mailboxes and kids coming from school on one side.”
Meek also discussed how strict probation requirements affected his responsibilities as a father.Â
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AHEAD: Rapper @MeekMill fights to clear his name.
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“My son lived in New Jersey, but I lived in Philadelphia, and the bridge is a 15-minute ride,” he said. “It’s just a bridge. I couldn’t go get my son from school when I wanted to . . . Some days I would get off work early, I would just have a free day, and I would just want to pop up at my son’s school and get him from school. I’d been out of town for two weeks in a row working. Can’t really do it.”
On Tuesday, lawyers for the rapper asked a Pennsylvania appeals court to overturn a 2008 drug and firearm conviction that has kept Meek on probation for a decade. The hip-hop star is also seeking a new trial before a new judge — a bid supported by prosecutors.
Philadelphia judge Judge Genece Brinkley sentenced Mill in November 2017 to 2-to-four years in prison for minor parole violations. He spent five months in prison before a court ordered him released last year. Mill’s lawyers have accused Brinkley of inappropriate behavior and bias.
Meek now advocates for reforms that will overhaul the parole and probation systems.
“I’m speaking for the people who are actually caught up in these situations . . . People in this world make mistakes,” he said, adding that he wants to “do something for the people who come from where I come from.”
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