Jake Paul criminally charged following looting video in Arizona Instagram – Jake PaulStar YouTuber Jake Paul has been charged with criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly following a video in which he accompanies looters and rioters in Arizona. On May 30, Paul and his friends attended peaceful protests in Scottsdale, Arizona before eventually following people into the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall\u2014where huge crowds stole merchandise and vandalized shops. Although Paul\u2019s camp has been adamant that they took no part in the looting or rioting, they still did participate in the trespassing. Unsurprisingly, Paul\u2019s team filmed everything as \u201can effort to share our experience and bring more attention to the anger felt in every neighborhood we traveled through,\u201d as he explained on Twitter. #BREAKING: YouTuber Jake Paul has been charged with criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly after video shows him alongside looters in Scottsdale. STORY: https:\/\/t.co\/L5gwQ4sQcA #abc15 pic.twitter.com\/5hlCK1dznU \u2014 ABC15 Arizona (@abc15) June 4, 2020 While hoping for great content, the influencer has now been charged with the aforementioned two misdemeanors, criminal trespassing, and unlawful assembly, since he was easily identified as one of the many still in the mall past its closing time. In an explanation tweet, he clarified that while primarily there for the peaceful protest and then interests in documenting, he does \u201cnot condone violence, looting, or breaking the law.\u201d It\u2019s unclear whether that semblance of morality will stack up in a court of law, but it does go against conflicting rumors that he did in fact partake in the looting. https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshPescatore\/status\/1267124943063572480?s=20 Given videos circulating in which Paul was seen obtaining a bottle of vodka from someone who snuck into a PF Chang\u2019s, the controversial YouTuber has continued to have his motives questioned. Many have discredited him for turning a nationwide movement into personal content and for simply going along for the looting ride without caring about the root of its energy. Those critiques are understandable given the Pauls\u2019 history, but hard to verify. For his own part, Jake has responded to the charges levied against him in the correct way: accepting them and wanting to move past them so that they do not distract from the real issues at hand. gimme my charges and let\u2019s put the focus back on George Floyd and Black Lives Matter https:\/\/t.co\/nwBZmsxFFz \u2014 Jake Paul (@jakepaul) June 4, 2020 Perhaps due to community pressure, perhaps due to personal growth, Paul has thus far not turned these charges into easy vlog content about his martyrdom in an exploration of his day trespassing and subsequent criminal litigation. Since the looting incident, his tweets have been centered around amplifying attention for the Black Lives Matter movement and he has been seen attending protests as well as raising money for charity. He can handle the misdemeanor charges and social media backlash, hopefully he\u2019ll continue using his platform for good once both blow over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul criminally charged following looting video in Arizona Instagram – Jake PaulStar YouTuber Jake Paul has been charged with criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly following a video in which he accompanies looters and rioters in Arizona. On May 30, Paul and his friends attended peaceful protests in Scottsdale, Arizona before eventually following people into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}