August 4, 2022
Rappers React Brittney Griner’s Nine-Year Russian Prison Sentence
[ad_1] The hip-hop community is shocked after learning that WNBA player Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison on drug possession charges.On Thursday (Aug. 4), Griner's sentence was handed down in a Moscow courtroom, according to NBC News. After entering a guilty plea last month, the hoops star was sentenced to nine years for drug possession and smuggling by Judge Anna Sotnikova. The sentence is close to the maximum allowed of 10 years for the charges, which stem from Griner being arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February with cannabis oil in her luggage.The hip-hop community is sounding off about the lengthy sentence on social media."This is wild,...