Kamala Harris couldĀ have trouble securing votes from Lil'Ā KimĀ fans.Ā
Hours after takingĀ the stage at the CNNĀ democratic debate, Sen. Harris was hit with allegations that she was responsible for Kim's 2005 prison sentence. No, really.
The accusations stem from a resurfacedĀ clip ofĀ the 2006 BET special Lil' Kim: Countdown to Lockdown. The seriesĀ explored the rapper's perjury case and included commentary fromĀ Harris, who was serving as the San FranciscoĀ district attorney at the time.Ā
"It is much more serious than 'What is the code among friends who are on the street,'" Harris said in the clip. "What I would like to see is inĀ the way that we're handling cases like those of Lil' Kim, we say as a community, 'We're not going to glorify the gangster.'"
Clearly, Harris wasn't too sympathetic toward the Queen Bee; however, Harris was not involved in the 2005 case in which KimĀ was accused of lying to a federal grand jury about a 2001 NYC shooting. The rapper'sĀ trial was held inĀ Federal District Court in Manhattanānot San Franciscoāand resulted in a 366-day prison sentence.
"I testified falsely during the grand jury and at trial," Kim toldĀ sentencing judge, Gerard E. Lynch back 2005. "At the time I thought it was the right thing to do, but I now know it was wrong."
