Jackson, CA – Keak Da Sneak practically misplaced his life in January 2017 after a number of males tried to rob him in Oakland. After the altercation, the assailants began firing their weapons. The Bay Space staple was sitting passenger aspect and got here extraordinarily near getting hit. Following the incident, he determined to get a gun regardless of being a convicted felon.
However in accordance with KQED, he’s been the goal a number of violent assaults and felt he needed to have a option to defend himself. On Monday (January 28), Keak attended a listening to and discovered he’ll start serving his 16-month sentence for one rely possession a firearm as a felon on February 7.
Keak was initially supposed to begin his sentence following the listening to, however Amador County Superior Court docket Decide J.S. Hermanson gave him further time to finish a medical process.
In March 2017, Keak was caught with the weapon whereas coming house from an evening playing at a on line casino in Amador County, a rural space east Sacramento. The newest census report says the inhabitants is 89 % white.
“It was actually racial priling at an all-time excessive,” he stated.
A police ficer ran his license plate at a gasoline station and found he was on probation as a result of a previous firearm cost. That’s when the ficer determined to go looking his automotive the place he found the gun.
Consequently, the Amador County district lawyer charged Keak with possession a firearm as a felon, possession ammunition as a felon, receiving stolen property, driving with a suspended or revoked license and possession a managed substance.
Shortly after the legal case started, Keak was concerned in one other capturing in August 2017 exterior a Richmond gasoline station. Very like the capturing in Oakland, he was the sufferer one other tried theft.
“The primary bullet busted the window and hit me within the face, grazed my face,” he stated. “It made me put my arms up and guard my head, so I received shot all in my aspect, stomach, my elbows, my sides. When the gunfire stopped, I couldn’t really feel my legs.”
Keak wakened two days later at Oakland’s Highland Hospital. He now has to make use of a wheelchair full-time, see a nurse 3 times per week and use a colostomy bag. Though he put up a authorized battle for 2 years, prosecutors refused to contemplate home arrest as an element his plea discount.
“It seems like that they had no compassion,” he stated. “My well being shouldn’t be good. I do know they’re not gonna give me the therapy I want in jail. I’ve been to jail earlier than, and when you get behind these partitions, they haven’t any compassion. You need to be in your dying mattress for them to offer you some help.
“Am I gonna get the therapy I’m getting out right here? I don’t suppose so. I’ve been to jail with individuals who had been sick and actually doing unhealthy, and the guards and deputies didn’t care about them in any respect. They got here and beat on them as a result of they had been pushing the button like, ‘I need assistance, I need assistance.’”
Throughout Keak’s time behind bars, he hopes to have the ability to take care his children along with his music.
“It received me doing rather a lot recording proper now, so whereas I’m gone I will be dropping music to take care my household,” he stated. “I’ve rather a lot individuals in my nook, on my aspect. They really feel prefer it’s biased, the best way they’re treating me. If I used to be one other race, they wouldn’t be doing me like this.”
Keak is predicted to be launched someday round June 2020.