"The government hates rap and the government hates rappers."

Rapper Bobby Shmurda and 14 others were arrested earlier in the week and now his lawyer, Howard Greenberg, has come out to speak on the case. Greenberg was not happy at all about the indictment when he spoke exclusively with XXLMag.com.
According to Greenberg, he feels the government hates rap and that the indictment is a bunch of “bullshit.”

“Let me give you some context,” Greenberg said while speaking with XXLMag.com. “The government hates rap and the government hates rappers. They target these guys and construct a narrative around them and then they rationalize the narrative in order to get an indictment. I had said previously, it’s a bunch of bullshit. What they do is they recruit guiltless, loveless people who are truthless that are jealous of brothers on the way up and they get them to implicate them.”

Greenberg also told XXL that he read the indictment very closely and the first 41 pages of the indictment are “susceptible to interpretation.”

“I gave the indictment a close read and the first 41 pages [are] just talk,” he said “It’s street lingo that isn’t even English, which is susceptible to interpretation that’s so broad, it’s unduly vague. In the argument yesterday they said that there were guns in his car; what they didn’t say is that two guns were in a closed container in the possession of somebody else, not Bobby. They misspoke about that to the Supreme Court. In the defense bar we style conspiracy charges as one of the darlings of the prosecutor’s nursery. People of color should be very afraid of these kind of prosecutions. They are selective. They start by aiming at a guy’s lyrics to begin.”