Meek Mill Offers Support To Philadelphia Mayor Following Mass Shooting
Meek Mill has given his support to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker following a mass shooting that left eight teenagers wounded in the city.
NBC Philadelphia reports that the shooting took place on Wednesday (March 6) when three armed suspects shot at a bus where a group of students were waiting at nearby Northeast High School.
According to surveillance footage of the shooting released by Philadelphia law enforcement officials, three gunmen wearing hoodies jumped out of a blue Hyundai Sonata with dark-tinted windows.
In the aftermath of the act of violence, seven teenage boys and a teenage girl were shot. Two of the victims are 15 years old, five of the victims are 16 years old and one victim is 17 years old, the police report read.
Responding to Mayor Parker who said “enough is enough” on a local news outlet about the ongoing violence in the city, Meek took to social media to give the mayor and his hometown his unwavering support.
“I wanna help her, especially with education,” Meek wrote on X (formerly Twitter.) “I have dreams of working with the Yas foundation with Dream Chasers Academy to offer these kids resources with technology and to travel outside of that environment to understand life! I’m in on reform ima joined to help with education!”
“If you black or brown talk about this … it’s kids that're gonna pick up guns because they think they're gonna die b4 they turn 21 for a gun license,” he added. “You will go from Xbox to Glock because of your environment … and get locked up trying to survive it. It's terrible!”
Meek also encouraged young people to make better choices and not follow the example of some in the previous generation who went down the wrong path.
“Growing up around killers that won’t reason with you before they kill you is like trying to negotiate with a terrorist … in our city we used to death and currently going through something with everybody killing everybody it’s hard to focus or prosper! DO NOT FOLLOW THE HEATHENS,” he said.
Recently, Meek lent his resources to get to the bottom of why artists and Black leaders have fallen victim to cyber-attacks. The Philadelphia rapper said he hired a private investigator to look into the matter.
“I just hired investigators to see [whose] been starting these cyber-attacks against black artists and leaders,” Meek wrote.