The trial of ASAP Rocky in Sweden feels like “Straight Outta Compton” meets “Veep.”
A brawl caught on Instagram, with foreign policy implications. Federal hostage negotiators sent to monitor courtrooms abroad. Twitter interventions from the president and lobbying efforts from Kanye West.The case has transfixed both the Swedish public and American hip-hop fans ever since Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, was arrested last month on assault charges stemming from an altercation in Stockholm between him and two companions and Mustafa Jafari, a 19-year-old immigrant from Afghanistan.
Rocky testified that Jafari approached the group asking if they’d seen a friend of his, and after being told to leave them alone, Rocky’s bodyguard intervened and a scuffle ensued. Prosecutors alleged that Rocky and his companions beat and kicked Jafari while he was on the ground, possibly using a bottle as a weapon.
Swedish prosecutors, however, alleged that Rocky and his companions beat and kicked Jafari after he confronted them about a pair of headphones broken earlier in an argument. President Trump tweeted a punning reaction to the news of Rocky’s release: “A$AP Rocky released from prison and on his way home to the United States from Sweden. It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!” Rocky, for his part, wrote “I CANT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE HOW GRATEFUL I AM FOR ALL OF YOU THIS HAS BEEN A VERY DIFFICULT AND HUMBLING EXPERIENCE.”Beyond the celebrity angle, the case would otherwise seem to be an ordinary incident of a street confrontation gone south.
Race and country of origin certainly play a factor in how these issues are debated in Sweden. Sweden’s government has taken pains to avoid implications that race or migrant status has any causal relationship with crime. In 2017, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven stopped updating statistics of the country of origin of criminals, and has been outspoken about advocating for better integration programs and the virtues of diversity.
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