April 19, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Cam to "60 Minutes": No Snitching
The serial killer is NOT in 4E.
Cameron Giles is scheduled to appear on CBS's "60 Minutes" this Sunday. Anchor Anderson Cooper interviewed Cam about hip-hop's "no snitching" code of ethics, a rule which is having a significant effect on the amount of arrests made in homicide cases in poor communities of color across the country. According to a release, Cooper asks Cam if he would even report a serial killer who was living next door to him. Cam responds, "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him... I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like, 'The serial killer's in 4E.' "
Cam'ron also explains why he didn't cooperate with police after he was shot in DC in 2005. "Because…it would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don't do that," he says. When Cooper says that if he were attacked, he'd want the assailant caught, Cam responds, "But then again, you're not going to be on the stage tonight in the middle of, say, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with people with gold and platinum teeth and dreadlocks jumping up and down singing your songs, either," says Giles. "We're in two different lines of business."
Also appearing on the program is Geoffrey Canada, an anti-violence advocate from Harlem who denounces the "no snitching" code. He tells Cooper, "It's like you can't be a black person if you have a set of values that say 'I will not watch a crime happen in my community without getting involved to stop it." To watch an excerpt of the interview, click here. The program will air Sunday April 22 at 7 pm ET.
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