April 26, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Cam'ron Apologizes for "60 Minutes" Interview
Cam'ron released a statement today clarifying "no snitching" policy.
On Sunday, April 22, Cam'ron was interviewed on "60 Minutes" regarding his "no snitching" "code of ethics." He told journalist Anderson Cooper he would never cooperate with police, even if a serial killer lived next door. Today, the Harlem rapper released a statement clarifying - and apologizing for - his interview. The statement, in its entirety:
"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 it's right, but it's 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."
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May 1, 2007 at 11:09 am
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MIKE says:
IF I CAME IN and caught two niggas humpin my mom, i'd snitch too! f**k the street code! it's all bullshit and niggas tryin to be lik ethe mafia... codes and shit... at least the mafia doesn't allow their women to be called b**ches and hoes and allow drugs to be sold in their communities! ghetto niggas wake up! if you're a criminal ratting on other criminals, you're a snitch! if you're a hard working tax-paying citizen, taking care of your family and you see drugs, etc. happening around you and you call the police... you are protecting your living environment from miscreants and people who would sell drugs to your children and try to push up on your daughters. get a clue!
May 1, 2007 at 8:05 am
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Kaavion says:
As everyone else has noted, these obviously aren't his words, but the words of his publicist. He couldn't have come up with this response if his life and all his money was depended on it. So sad...money doesn't give one intelligence or in his case, common sense.
April 30, 2007 at 4:40 pm
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J-who says:
Yo Anywayz Cam didnt say dat man and if he did he didnt mean it. ha Dipset all day man. death to allhataz.
April 30, 2007 at 2:47 pm
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sosodefinite says:
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April 30, 2007 at 9:55 am
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jerrel elegan says:
Hey Black,who've been bought and sold and you're just the beginning.
April 28, 2007 at 9:28 am
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Lance Manly says:
what i know to be the absolute truth is cam snitched on carl cheese and money marvin,from east harlem, for selling weed. cam walked in on the two assailants running a train on his mom who was screaming and moaning. this is true word on the street.
April 27, 2007 at 8:02 pm
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movida_pr says:
That's not the point. Our neighborhoods are not going to get safer if we allow criminality and fraticide to continue to go on like this. Enough of this black-on-black crime. We all deserve better.
April 26, 2007 at 10:45 pm
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Justin says:
i don't beleave that was cam he should have did that live if he reall felt that way
April 26, 2007 at 7:03 pm
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T.L.A. says:
D.C. & P.G. county be holding it down. Cam was slippin for pushin a high end car like that at Howard anywayz that area ain't good homie....
April 26, 2007 at 6:53 pm
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brandon says:
duhh u dumbass no rappers say apoligizes or anything there publicist writes it for them
April 26, 2007 at 1:22 pm
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esso1001 says:
u damn right that aint his words. It sound to smart for it to be his words.. All he knows is computers computing...
April 26, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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Candice says:
Cam'ron did not say this. He may have agreed with his publicist that a statement needed to be released. He may have even read it and approved this being the released statement. But I gaurantee those aren't his words.
April 26, 2007 at 11:05 am