Megan Thee Stallion requested a courtroom on Tuesday to problem a restraining order in opposition to Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail by surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for capturing her within the toes.
The petition filed by the hip-hop star in Los Angeles Superior Court docket asks the decide to stop the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson, from utilizing third events to proceed the identical on-line harassment of Megan, whose authorized title is Megan Pete, that he engaged in and inspired earlier than his imprisonment.
“Even now, while behind bars, Mr. Peterson shows no signs of stopping,” the petition says. “Despite being sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to subject her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”
An e-mail looking for remark from Lanez’s legal professionals was not instantly returned. A courtroom listening to on the order is scheduled for Jan. 9.
The submitting says bloggers performing on Lanez behalf proceed to solid doubt on her allegations, making false claims together with that the gun and bullet fragments within the case are lacking.
The petition says the protecting order issued to stop the earlier harassment is not in impact, which it calls a loophole and flaw within the legal justice system. Lanez is being held at a California jail in rural Tehachapi.
In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a automobile and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.
A decide rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s legal professionals, who’re interesting his conviction.
In August of final yr, he acquired the 10-year sentence, bringing what gave the impression to be a conclusion to a three-year authorized and cultural saga that noticed two careers, and lives, thrown into turmoil.
The brand new courtroom submitting was first reported by TMZ.
Megan testified through the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her toes and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV wherein that they had been driving. She revealed who had fired the gun solely months later.
The case created a firestorm within the hip-hop neighborhood, churning up points together with the reluctance of Black victims to talk to police, gender politics in hip-hop, on-line toxicity, defending Black girls and the ramifications of misogynoir, a selected model of misogyny Black girls expertise.
