Megan Thee Stallion asks for restraining order towards convicted shooter Tory Lanez

Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket on Tuesday to difficulty a restraining order towards Tory Lanez, who she says is harassing her from jail by means of surrogates as he serves a 10-year sentence for capturing her within the toes again in 2020 in Los Angeles.

The petition filed by the hip-hop star in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom asks the choose to forestall the Canadian rapper Lanez, whose authorized title is Daystar Peterson, from utilizing third events to proceed the identical on-line harassment of Megan, whose authorized title is Megan Pete, that he engaged in and inspired earlier than his imprisonment.

“Even now, whereas behind bars, Mr. Peterson reveals no indicators of stopping,” the petition says. “Regardless of being sentenced to 10 years in jail for capturing Ms. Pete, Mr. Peterson continues to to topic her to repeated trauma and revictimization.”

An e-mail from The Related Press in search of remark from Lanez’s attorneys was not instantly returned. A court docket listening to on the order is scheduled for Jan. 9.

The submitting says bloggers performing on Lanez’s behalf proceed to forged doubt on her allegations, making false claims together with that the gun and bullet fragments within the case are lacking. It additionally comes after Pete filed a lawsuit in October towards blogger Milagro Gramz, accusing Gramz of purposely spreading false data on behalf of Lanez. 

That lawsuit was filed within the Southern District of Florida towards Gramz, a preferred content material creator who’s legally generally known as Milagro Elizabeth Cooper. The lawsuit accuses Cooper of deliberately inflicting Pete emotional misery by cyberstalking, selling and sharing deepfake pornography of Pete and questioning if she was really shot.

Tuesday’s petition says a protecting order issued to forestall earlier harassment is now not in impact, which it calls a loophole and flaw within the legal justice system. Lanez is being held at a California jail in rural Tehachapi.

In December 2022, Lanez was convicted of three felonies: assault with a semiautomatic firearm; having a loaded, unregistered firearm in a car and discharging a firearm with gross negligence.

A choose rejected a movement for a brand new trial from Lanez’s attorneys, who’re interesting his conviction.

In August of final yr, he obtained the 10-year sentence, bringing what gave the impression to be a conclusion to a three-year authorized and cultural saga that noticed two careers, and lives, thrown into turmoil.

Megan testified in the course of the trial that in July 2020, after they left a celebration at Kylie Jenner’s Hollywood Hills dwelling, Lanez fired the gun in the back of her toes and shouted for her to bounce as she walked away from an SUV during which that they had been using. She revealed who had fired the gun solely months later.

The case created a firestorm within the hip-hop neighborhood, churning up points together with the reluctance of Black victims to talk to police, gender politics in hip-hop, on-line toxicity, defending Black girls and the ramifications of misogynoir, a specific model of misogyny Black girls expertise.