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Hip-hop star Tupac Shakur reportedly used his last words to swear at a police officer as he lay dying.
The rapper suffered multiple bullet wounds when he and his Death Row Records boss Marion 'Suge' Knight were targeted in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996, and now the officer who pulled the rapper from the wreckage of the car has opened up about Shakur's final moments.
In an interview with VegasSeven.com, Sergeant Chris Carroll, formerly of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, reveals he was the first officer to arrive at the scene and after realizing Shakur was bleeding heavily, he asked him to identify the gunman. He says, "I'm looking at Tupac, and he's trying to yell back at Suge, and I'm asking him, 'Who shot you? What happened? Who did it?' And he was just kind of ignoring me ... I kept asking over and over, 'Who did this? Who shot you?' And he basically kept ignoring me. And then I saw in his face, in his movements, all of a sudden in the snap of a finger, he changed. And he went from struggling to speak, being non-cooperative, to an 'I'm at peace' type of thing. Just like that. He went from fighting to 'I can't do it.' And when he made that transition, he looked at me, and he's looking right in my eyes. And that's when I looked at him and said one more time, 'Who shot you?' He looked at me and he took a breath to get the words out, and he opened his mouth, and I thought I was actually going to get some co-operation. And then the words came out: 'F--- you.'"
Shakur slipped into a coma seconds later and was transported by ambulance to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, where he died six days later, aged 25. His murder remains unsolved.
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MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)I wouldn't have expected him to go out any other way.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)over someone that's dying and thinks "I'm finally going to get some cooperation."? The only cooperation one should be looking for in a shooting victim is holding still so you can attempt first aid.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)How about kneel down and hold a dying man's hand officer asshat?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Iggo
(47,564 posts)Second, I agree with the poster above: It's the most well deserved Fuck You in the history of Fuck You's.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Racist dog whistle talk abounds all the way. "See he was a 'thug' to his last breath."
To me he is painting himself in a bad light.
I buy it based on the description of him fighting for his life to an acceptance "I can't do it" and the at-peace feeling. I know from experience (not saying it happens in every case) and can see him speaking the truth when the change went over him.
Not only was it well deserved but the man dying is the same person who shot two off duty drunk police officers in possession of stolen guns harassing a black motorist. While not all police are guilty he certainly has experience in knowing how full of shit they can be.
Skittles
(153,184 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Officer Asshat is a racist asshole.