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By Cindy Boren Cindy Boren Reporter covering sports, with an emphasis on politics and national stories Email Bio Follow April 1 at 8:54 AM For residents of the South Los Angeles community in which he grew up, Nipsey Hussle was a presence, someone who gave shoes to each student in an elementary school, paid to improve a playground and helped families pay for funerals when a relative died in gun violence.
“This is so painful!” Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player, tweeted. “@NipseyHussle was doing great work for the people. Keep his legacy alive by carrying on his work! Sending love to his family. Rest in Power, King” — Colin Kaepernick April 1, 2019 Hussle was a visible at sports events, especially NBA games. “So so SAD man!!” Lakers star LeBron James tweeted. “DAMN man this hurt.” On Instagram, he added: “Just spoke with you the other day on text bro! Telling you how proud I was of you and how I was gone get you to more Laker games next season. Been A Stand Up dude from Day 1.
Police told the Times the shooting appears to have been gang-related and Hussle mentioned in a 2014 interview with YouTube channel Vlad TV that he had joined the Rollin’ 60s, a Crips gang clique, as a teenager. “We dealt with death, with murder,” he told The Times in 2018. “It was like living in a war zone, where people die on these blocks and everybody is a little bit immune to it. I guess they call it post-traumatic stress, when you have people that have been at war for such a long time.
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