Snoop Dogg talks about his 1996 murder acquittal

Los Angeles police announced that 21-year-old Calvin Broadus, better known as rap star Snoop Doggy Dog, had turned himself in to police on Friday along with two other young black men, all accompanied by an attorney, in connection with the murder on August 25th of a man named Philip Waldemariam in what police believe was a gang-related shooting. It never should have gone to trial. The alleged victim in this case had a gun, was reaching to his waistband to pull that gun out at the time Snoop's bodyguard fired a shot, and that's what we said from the beginning. The testimony makes it clear this is a case of self-defense. The DA, it was a pain in the ass. He just tried to do everything in the world to make me seem like the most negative, gang-banging, criminal-minded ************ he could just imagine, and tried to paint a picture of me. That just wasn't happening. It was crazy knowing that he was, that's what his job was to do, was to get me locked up for life. You know what I'm saying? I just want to say, **** you, bitch.