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Tory Lanez‘s nonprofit legal team, Unite the People, is now representing blogger Milagro Gramz after she was sued by Megan Thee Stallion for what the rapper’s calling “false statements and narratives.”
Megan’s federal suit, filed on Wednesday (October 30) in Florida’s Southern District court, says that Gramz’s remarks about the shooting – and namely in favor of Tory – on social media and elsewhere have had “a negative effect” on the rapper’s “mental and emotional state.”
Hours later, Unite the People revealed in an Instagram post that they were now representing Gramz, writing: “Milagro Elizabeth Cooper AKA Milagro Gramz has been served a lawsuit making a lot of false claims against her professional conduct in an attempt to stop her from reporting on the Daystar Peterson AKA Tory Lanez case.
“Unite the People Inc. was founded and exists to fight on behalf of the disadvantaged, the small and the powerless against these Goliath organizations, corporations or celebrities that want to push around and bully the Davids of this world, i.e., The People.”
The organization continued: “Unite the People Inc. will not stand by and let an intractable justice system or a billion-dollar corporation ran by popular celebrities take advantage of the small guy in an attempt to silence someone from their First Amendment right of free speech.
“Unite the People Inc. has agreed to take on the defense of Milagro Cooper…as well as any other social media influencer, journalism platform, journalists, podcast, or reporter of any type that has received this lawsuit against them or any other form of bullying/harassment to silence them from their right to free speech.”
The organization also urged any other influencer or personality who receives similar threats or litigation to contact them.
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It’s to be noted that Unite the People recently came under fire for spreading unsubstantiated reports that Tory Lanez had been found innocent after previously being convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
Legal reporter Meghann Cuniff debunked the rumors in a post to X, tweeting, “Just got home from the World Series and learned some people spent their Friday night spreading lies about Tory Lanez’s appeal for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. No, the appellate court has not declared Lanez ‘innocent.’ Not even close.”
Cuniff, who has diligently covered the high-profile and often contentious case, then explained: “All the court did was consolidate Lanez’s habeas petition and his actual appeal. They haven’t ruled on anything yet and it’s pathetic that this trash website amplifies outright lies, even when the court document is right there staring everyone in the face.”
Cuniff then pointed out that “this is an entirely new habeas petition. He has one in from last year about the driver’s statement, but according to the docket his lawyers filed another one this week. Which makes the idea that the court somehow granted it even stupider. [The Attorney General] hasn’t.”
She continued: “The Unite the People group posted the document on Instagram and falsely said the court accepted Lanez’s innocent claim. It would be great if they could post the actual petition so we don’t have to wait for me to get it from the court on Monday. What’s this new petition about?
“I think some people get tripped up by the phrase ‘good reason appearing’ and somehow equate that with the court agreeing with every single thing in every one of Lanez’s filings.
In this context, the judges mean they looked at the new petition and determined it shouldn’t be considered alone. Instead, there is good reason for it to be considered with the existing appeal.”
Cuniff further criticized Unite the People by saying: “Unite the People is the same group that falsely reported the appellate court had freed Lanez from prison. They even told his father that. The group seems to struggle with correctly interpreting court actions for the public, and we should keep that in mind moving forward.”
