CHRIS ROPER: The Chris Brown controversy
In a country where a rape is reported every 12 minutes, a show of huge public support for an abuser sends a terrible message
“Michael Jackson was accused of paedophilia — but where would pop music be without his contribution?” Now that’s not a sentence you read every day. It’s from a column by Fred Khumalo in City Press headlined “Why the anti-Chris Brown brigade is wrong”.
In it, he attempts to convince readers that we shouldn’t be mean to fans of Chris Brown, just because he has been convicted of domestic violence. To remind you, in 2009 Brown pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to five years’ probation, community service and domestic violence counselling. And a former girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, also had a five-year restraining order granted against Brown in 2017, alleging that he made violent threats to her over text, punched her in the stomach and pushed her down the stairs, according to People magazine. ..
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