Fulton County prosecutors want to revoke Young Thug’s probation over a post he shared on X (formerly Twitter).
According to TMZ, prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday, April 2 to end Thug’s probation after he reposted a photo of a police investigator who testified in a gang-related murder case. The image was originally shared by a blogger, and Thug added the caption, “Biggest liar in the DA office.” The judge in that murder case (which is separate from Thug’s case that wrapped up last year) had ordered that the witness not be shown on TV or social media.
The blogger who first posted the picture wrote, “She doesn’t want to be shown on screen? Well, here she is.” In their motion, prosecutors accused Thug of amplifying the original post. They claimed he violated his probation by participating in a “campaign of intimidation, harassment, and misinformation designed to undermine the legal process.”
The motion also noted that both the investigator and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis received threats in the comments section after Thug “amplified” the post.
The Atlanta rapper’s lawyers, Brian Steel and Keith Adams, fired back at the motion, arguing their client didn’t violate any probation conditions with the post, which has since been deleted.
“Mr. Williams did not violate any term of probation and thus, the State’s Motion to Revoke Probation must be dismissed at this time, with prejudice,” they stated. “These comments on social media by unknown persons cannot be attributed to Mr. Williams in order to support a violation of his probationary sentence… Williams can admit to all of the allegations alleged and still not have violated any term of his probationary sentence. The State’s Motion to Revoke Probation is deficient.”
In a seemingly related X post, Thug wrote, “I don’t make treats [sic] to people I’m a good person, I would never condone anyone threatening anyone or definitely participate in threatening anyone. I’m all about peace and love.”
Thugger got out of jail on October 31 after pleading guilty in what became the longest trial in Georgia history. His plea deal includes 15 years of probation, with a 20-year prison sentence hanging over his head if he fails to meet all probation requirements. As part of the agreement, Thug is banned from the Atlanta metro area.
He entered a no contest plea to a racketeering conspiracy charge and one count of leading a street gang in the YSL RICO case, while pleading guilty to one count of possessing a machine gun, one count of possessing a firearm during a felony, and three counts of violating Georgia’s Controlled Substances Act.
