The Game can breathe a little easier now after catching a huge break in an assault case. The Compton rapper has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for assaulting an off-duty policeman during a pick-up basketball game in Hollywood.
According to The Associated Press,
The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, also received a six-month suspended jail term Monday and was ordered to attend anger management counseling.
He may have to do the time if he gets into any more trouble.
Prosecutors say during a game in 2015, Taylor threatened, intentionally fouled and sucker-punched the officer, who’d stolen the ball from him and made a basket.
Taylor also pleaded no contest to stealing a camera from a paparazzi who filmed him being served with legal papers after the officer sued him.
Taylor pleaded no contest to felony grand theft and misdemeanor counts of making criminal threats and battery.
Chuck Taylor definitely caught a break. The officer, Onyebuchi Awaji, sued Game for $12 million after claiming he was punched in the head by the MC. Awaji was awarded $100,000 in damages in a default judgment.
As previously reported, an Illinois court ordered The Game to fork over more than $7 million in a sexual assault case back in November.
The lawsuit stems from charges filed by Priscilla Rainey, who alleges that rapper sexually assaulted her while shooting VH1’s dating reality show She’s Got Game in 2015. Rainey sued the rapper for $10 million last summer. A judgment was then entered for a total sum of $7.13 million.
Ouch!!!
