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Florida aspiring rapper nabbed after he asked fans to shoot and kill cops, shatter shopping mall windows

20-year-old Cale Groff delivered an incendiary message in a clip he posted this week to his 7,200 followers on Instagram
UPDATED JUN 4, 2020
(Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)
(Pinellas County Sheriff's Office)

ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA: An aspiring rapper is facing a felony charge after he allegedly posted a video on Instagram calling for the murder of police officers and the vandalism of a mall in Florida, an arrest affidavit has revealed.

20-year-old Cale Groff delivered an incendiary message in a clip he posted this week to his 7,200 followers on Instagram, The  Smoking Gun reported.

“If you see a police, stop and shoot him, kill him. Throw a brick at his head or whatever’s in your hand,” Groff declared. "If you see any police, kill them. Fuck all the police, we gonna kill them how they killed George.”

Groff uploaded the video, which has since been taken down from his Instagram page, was in the wake of the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

According to the affidavit, Groff, in addition to calling for violence against law enforcement, also urged his followers to “throw a square-shaped brick through the windows” of a St Petersburg mall.

The budding rapper was arrested on June 2 and charged with making threatening communications or threats of mass shooting. However, he was released from prison on June 2 afternoon upon posting a $20,000 bond. According to police records, Groff was convicted of marijuana possession in 2018.

Groff records under the name of “Ace $wift" and has 25 tracks on his SoundCloud page, including cuts titled “FUCK IT,” “GET LIT,” and “Still Scamming.” His expositions revolve around topics such as drugs, guns, committing crimes, and trips to the club.

Groff's compositions are often accompanied by makeshift album covers that see him brandishing a gun, holding a fan of cash, or simply flipping the bird.

“We are not the same we cannot coexist,” the aspiring rapper tweeted on May 29, albeit he is not known to be affiliated with a political party, per voter records.

This comes shortly after news that NWA's classic 'F**k tha Police' has witnessed a resurgence in popularity of late. The 1988 track, which has a theme of anti-police brutality, is off their 'Straight Outta Compton' LP. The song saw an increase in streams since the news of George Floyd's death broke out, which was followed by Black Lives Matter protests throughout the nation.

A go-to anthem for recent protests, 'F**k tha Police' has seen a 272% percent increase in on-demand audio streams from May 27 through June 1 compared to the five days before Floyd’s death, according to Alpha Data, the data analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone charts. On May 31 (Sunday) and June 1 (Monday), the song increased in popularity with 765,000 on-demand audio streams over those two days. It is nearly five times the streams the song was seeing before the protests. A similar surge happened in August 2015 when the song was played amid protests in Ferguson, a year after the shooting of Michael Brown.

The song protests police brutality and racial profiling with lyrics such as: "Comin straight from the underground. Young ni**a got it bad 'cause I'm brown. And not the other color so police think. They have the authority to kill a minority. F**k that shit, 'cause I ain't tha one. For a punk muthaf***** with a badge and a gun. To be beatin on, and thrown in jail. We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell." The song was ranked number 425 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time back in 2011.

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