50 Cent has been slammed for insensitive feedback he made in regards to the sexual assault of Energy star Michael Rainey Jr.
After the 23-year-old actor was groped throughout an look on TyTy James’ Twitch livestream by the streamer’s youthful sister, 50 provided his tackle the incident in a since-deleted Instagram put up on Monday (June 10).
Largely dismissing the undesirable touching, he wrote: “Wait sexual assault [frowning face emoji] from a male perspective this was an aggressive advance. LOL HE’s tremendous no costs are being pressed.”
The rapper and media mogul was criticized for his remarks, with one social media consumer commenting: “The truth that 50 Cent got here out and mentioned Michael Rainey (Tariq from Energy) was NOT sexually assaulted and that’s he’s tremendous when he clearly felt uncomfortable and instantly left when that lady touched him in his non-public components is a part of the issue in todays society.
“Ladies may be predators too. Ladies can sexually assault others as properly and ladies have to be held accountable. If he did that to her his complete life and profession can be up in FLAMES. We now have to guard our younger black males too!”
One other mentioned: “50 Cent posted on Instagram mocking & downplaying his lead actor for experiencing sexual assault in entrance of the entire world. He known as it ‘an aggressive advance.’ However I’m purported to imagine this man cares about victims…”
A 3rd critic put it extra bluntly, writing: “50 Cent is nice at being a horrible human.”
Tylil’s sister sexually assaults Actor Michael Rainey Jr on stream he then abruptly left the stream 20 minutes later 😬😬 pic.twitter.com/Mc0CS3bm32
— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) June 10, 2024
Rainey Jr. himself issued an announcement on the incident, footage of which has gone viral on-line.
“At this level, everybody has seen the video circulating on-line. I’m nonetheless in shock and don’t absolutely know course of what occurred final evening,” he wrote on his Instagram Tales.
“That is an unlucky scenario that I don’t condone in any manner. I can’t take it evenly as a result of I do know I’d be in deep trouble if the roles had been reversed.”
He added: “The actual fact is, sexual assault is rarely okay, no matter gender or standing. We’re all human and we should always respect one another. Most significantly, we should always respect ourselves all the time.”
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TyTy additionally apologized to Rainey Jr. for what occurred on the livestream, saying: “After the actions that occurred throughout my stream final evening I want to sincerely apologize to Michael and his household for what passed off.
“My little sister was utterly fallacious and out of line. What she did was very inappropriate and unacceptable. I’m really embarrassed and disgusted by her actions.”
“I utterly respect no matter path Michael desires to go on this scenario,” he continued. “After watching the clip, I used to be utterly bowled over by what she achieved [sic].
“I’ll take excessive precautions with future streams to keep away from related points and have banned her from collaborating in future streams. I don’t condone any kind of assault.”
