Thu 26 Apr 2007
Cam’ron’s Stop-Snitching Statement: “I’m not saying its right…”
Posted by Miss Info under Uncategorized[34] Comments
STATEMENT OF CAMERON GILES, DIPLOMAT RECORDS
“In 2005, I was a victim of a violent crime. I was shot multiple times without provocation by two armed men who attempted to carjack my vehicle. Although I was a crime victim, I didn’t feel like I could cooperate with the police investigation. Where I come from, once word gets out that you’ve cooperated with the police that only makes you a bigger target of criminal violence. That is a dark reality in so many neighborhoods like mine across America. I’m not saying its right, but its reality. And it’s not unfounded. There’s a harsh reality around violence and criminal justice in our inner cities.
“But my experience in no way justifies what I said. Looking back now, I can see how those comments could be viewed as offensive, especially to those who have suffered their own personal tragedies or to those who put their lives on the line to protect our citizens from crime. Please understand that I was expressing my own personal frustration at my own personal circumstances. I in no way was intending to be malicious or harmful. I apologize deeply for this error in judgment.”
hmmm, this doesn’t sound like the Cam that I know….on so many different levels, lol…I’m actually surprised he’s making this statement….he’s obviously responding to all the backlash after his 60 minutes appearance on their “stop snitching” segment. I think some folks were even trying to Imus him and get him kicked off his label…..
I dont really see why he’s getting so much flack….(or slack, as he said on 60 minutes, lol)….Cam didnt cooperate with the cops when he got shot in the arms….but at least he was the only victim of that crime. Unlike Busta, who refuses to cooperate in a murder investigation for his friend/bodyguard who was allegedly shot…right in front of him!!!!
April 26th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
it sure DON’T sound like Cam… LOL
April 26th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
This is called Damage Control.. In the Wake of Imus and the rest.. someone put the bug in his ear to make nice or his people would backlash on him. I don’t even think Cam is coherent or proficient in the english language to even WRITE something this eloquent!
Peace Info
April 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Camron is on point. I know exactly how he feels. When you cooperate with any police you are putting yourself in danger also. After you “snitch” the cops are calling you non stop, you have to go to court and sometimes you are a witness cause they need all the info from you. And also i just would like to say to people out there DON’T SNITCH. You think that you are helping out but in reality lawyers, cops, investigators they are going to harrass you (the snitch)
April 26th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
lol..Who the hell wrote this?lol..I know Cam didn’t say none of this Crap..This dude is silly Man..He needs to do what he does best, make his lullaby rhymes and rock his barbie doll pink gear..he’s stepping out of his zone now..thats why he keeps putting his foot in his mouth….
April 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Kotch records sure Has one excellent publicists!
You’re right, Cam’s crime was committed against him its was his choice to talk to cops. Police should stop worrying so much about hood ignorant “Stop Snitching” movement and work more on building community relations so people would be more willing to work with them.
When I myself, a non violent, college educated, tax paying , active voter, and local business owner, get stopped twice in one week by undercover cops for bullshit reasons. You then expect me to turn around and help you with an investigation?!
Fuck that!
We need to start stichin’ on bad cops.
Here’s how:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/
April 26th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Like i said b4 the cops only protect you until they get what they want after that your on your own and its a very cold world out there
April 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Lets keep it real. Cam has an intelligent chick that he mess with. She wrote this for him cause she knows it couldve tarnished his Rep. Believe me, with my significant other being a hip hop artist I’d right something like this for him as well if what he presented wasnt official. And Oh BTW we should soon see one of these from Akon as well Written by his “REAL WIFE” (he has admited he lied about having 3 )We all have to hold our men down when it comes to these things.They’re street smart & mine is intelligent actually but He knows I would say it better!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
if one of my friends was shot like busta boy I would tell his mother,daddy,brother,sister, the cops and the president of the United States and the cops better find him before I do
April 26th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Yeah, sure Cam wrote this up…and Kanye is working on an apology record to George Bush right now.
Pssshhh!
April 26th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
@tah-tah…very funny mama…trust me I’ve edited plenty of resumes, cover letters and emails for guyfriends too. but did Akon really admit he was lying? maybe he was lying about lying to not get arrested hahaa
-missinfo
April 26th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
“I dont really see why he’s getting so much flack….(or slack, as he says, lol)….Cam didnt cooperate with the cops when he got shot in the arms….but at least he was the only victim of that crime. ”
Camron is getting flack because of the way he conducted himself during that interview. This 31 year old man was asked to appear on 60 minutes, a well respected show watched by millions! Not 106 & Park where you can get away with acting like an dumb fool! This was 60 Minutes!!! He was asked why he chose not to co-operate with the police and instead of explaining his reasons in a well thought out articulate manner, breaking down the problems that black people have encountered with the police throughout the decades etc, he lets the side down (black people and the Hip Hop community in general) by sounding like some ignorant adolescent who doesn’t know any better – talking about not turning in a serial killer, how its against his “code of ethics” blah blah. He succeeded in making us all look like laughing stocks! He wasn’t taking it seriously at all!
I suspect that 60 Minutes knew exactly what they were doing when they asked him to appear on the show. And they got exactly what they were looking for!
Camron should have prepared himself before appearing. But I suspect he got over excited and just thought about the exposure that he would be getting.
Yeah he succeeded in getting exposure all right. He exposed just how damn ignorant he is!
April 26th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Why are ppl giving Cam flack for this…like you said at least he was the only one who was hurt so that’s all on him…If someone else had gotten hurt and he didn’t try to help them out than that’s another story….You can’t hate on someone for the way they deal with their own situation…ppl have been raised different ways, seen different things, and learned different lessons….WHERE’S THE UNDERSTANDING!..LOL(CORNY)
April 26th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
:-! OOPS… THERE GOES CAM’RON AGAIN WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH… THIS STATEMENT WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT DONE BY CAM’RON LMAOOOO OMG. LMAOO@MIAMI GREG THAT ONE WAS GOOD.
Most ppl say not to help the cops, “dont snitch!” because of all the times they been stopped for no reason by cops, blah blah blah. Read, cops can be azz holes, racist etc.. but at the same time there are also some out there that are truely trying to help. Now, we need to stop having that mentality because we’re only hurting ourselves and the community around us. We are going down! The cops are havig a blast knowing how much we are bringing eachother down by sitting there watching crimes and not doing anything about it. We are basically doing what they want. lol seriously ppl think that “oh if you snitch you helping the same cop that stopped you and gave you $200 ticket for being colored and driving a pimped out car”. We need to look deeper than that and stop thinking about the dam police and think about our community. Shiet! the same criminal that killed the that mana week ago is the same criminal that killed your little 5 year old sister riding her 4 wheel bike on the side walk today! and all cause you dont snitch! GTFO ya’ll need to sit and think about life and the world we live in man.
April 26th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
No, it’s NOT Cam…it’s someone a bit (actually, A LOT) more intelligent that put it out on his behalf…
I must give credit, though…the statement does begin to explain that debacle of an interview on 60 Minutes…LOL
That label oughtta give ME his budget…LOL
April 26th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
And one more point…
Some of you all just don’t get it.
The whole “Stop Snitching” thing was meant for CRIMINALS who got caught. If you have a partner in crime and if one or the both of you get caught, the rule is to not snitch on your partner for a lighter sentence.
A lot of wanna–be criminals out there assumed that this mantra applied to them, but it doesn’t.
I’ll snitch all damn day. Fuck that! That’s the problem w/our people as it is…we used to LOVE each other, look out for each other; now, we kill each other for helping to rid the ghetto of crime…WTF?
Bring the Black Panthers back~!
LOL
April 26th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
this is str8 pr [Public Relations]. his ppl said, “we need to do some crisis management,” wrote this statement up, MAYBE gave it over to cam for the “ok” then sent it to press. nothing but busiess, baby. protect the image, to protect the product [cam], to [continue to] produce the paper. LOL
April 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Every 1 is saying this and that about Killa not talking to the police. When u respect where u come from, u dont talk to the police. Fuck them. They dont want to help us, they want us all in jail.Suspect, victim, witness, every1. I appreciate him keepin it 100. If u know who shot u handle it. When people do snitch, he gets glorified and sells millions.When is this shit acceptible?
April 26th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
LICEMLOWW- MY NICCA REALLY WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE. ARE YOU SOME TYPE OF MOBSTER ARE YOU IN THE MOB??? I MEAN PLEASE ALL YA “GANSTA” WANNABEES KEEP TALKING ABOUT TAKE CARE OF IT YOURSELF. IF YOU GO AND TAKE CARE OF IT YOURSELF AND YOU END UP BEING THE ONE DEAD THEN WHO GETS THE LAST LAUGH??? THE AZZ THAT DID THE CRIME IN THE FIRST PLACE. YOU END UP 12 FEET DEEP SO WHAT YOU DO THEN??? NOTHING!! LOL. I MEAN PLEASE SERIOUSLY PPL THINK LMAOO STOP THINKING ABOUT THE COPS!!!!!! IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM THINK ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY. I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN A PLACE THAT YOU DONT SNITCH BUT I’M OPPOSED TO IT IF IT COMES TO PROTECTING MY COMMUNITY
April 27th, 2007 at 10:20 am
PREACH ON CAM PREACH ON!
April 27th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
this wasnt camm lets get serious now but i think he is giving off the wrong message also it looks bad
April 27th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
He was using to many big words without streaming them together, makin them rhyme…
That wasnt him!
Ima start callin him “Cam Imus”
Young Nuk
April 27th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
HOLD UP!!! AINT KILLA CAM. A “THUG”?????? Y IS HE LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE AND REWORDING HIS WORDS????
AIN’T HE A “REAL STREET DUDE”??
THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW U HOW “STREET” A PERSON IS!!!! CUZ IF HE NEVER PUT THIS STATEMENT OUT THERE THEN HE WOULD BE FUCKN UP HIS MONEY AND DIP SET SHIT TOO
!!!!!!!
April 27th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
i feel cam though,cuz i got hit up myself and if i would of told the cops i would of been known as a rat,and problems would of been bigger.but i dont agree wit him when he said he would just move if a serial killer lived near him,i would not have called the cops,i would of handled that cat myself,thats how i roll coming from the streets of bpt, ct.holla
April 27th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
“liccemloww Says:
April 26th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Every 1 is saying this and that about Killa not talking to the police. When u respect where u come from, u dont talk to the police. Fuck them. They dont want to help us, they want us all in jail.Suspect, victim, witness, every1. I appreciate him keepin it 100. If u know who shot u handle it. When people do snitch, he gets glorified and sells millions.When is this shit acceptible?”
Its not what Camron said thats the problem, it’s how he said it!!!!
April 28th, 2007 at 2:29 am
He really showed the world how ignorant a man can be. Now those suburbanite gate secured gangsta wannabes in Catchanig, Indiana wont turn in those child killers next door cuz they want to be “cool” and “gangsta”. And u know there had to somebody..anybody else besides Cam to have that interview with. Now they got us divided up about which view is right and picketing, banning our own.
That old Divide and Conquer. They are using us against ourselves and we are letting the idiots of our race get in front of the camera.
Thanks Cam. Great job. Explain next time.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:36 am
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0419072giles2.html
April 28th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
camron is a ignorant fuk
April 29th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Cam aint right that….someone wrote it for him!
April 29th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
he reads well…u know a spokesman wrote that shee-ot…good job though-
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Cam didn’t write this. Someone with common sense wrote this and Cam just went along with it b/c he sounded real dumb on 60 minutes.
May 6th, 2007 at 1:33 am
cam’s lawyer wrote that shit for him
May 7th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
cam must have had some advice
what you think he made this up ?
a bit staged i feel in a way
http://www.myspace.com/theroots
May 8th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Cam probably did wrte this shit and 2 me he did the right thing by not snitching but he just handled the 60 min shi? The wrong way but he knows that.
May 10th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
u know wot mz info ?? im never gonna look at busta the same agen ,, how can he not co oporate wid the police bwoy dem if his bodyguard was his Friend no respect for the man mum for real dats not gangsta dats souless no amount ov soulfood can fill dat brudda up trus ,, he ent even corrected the situation in any way has he ??? maybe apart from give away abit ov the profits he protectin ,, busta u tellin me u cant get this man in way thats street ?? bully him into confession do something CHA