The arrest and trial of A$AP Rocky: a timeline

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How a street fight in Sweden escalated to a high-level diplomatic mess in the U.S.   The story of A$AP Rocky's detention abroad is subject of a new documentary.

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00:00We're in Sweden right now!

00:04Asap Rocky

00:06I have been called by so many people asking me to help Asap Rocky. We don't want to fight y'all. We're not trying to go to jail

00:13Look at it. It's beautiful. Check the world out. It don't get it don't get more prettier than this baby, you know

00:43Some way go that way bro for you get hurt, you know, we don't want to hurt y'all

00:55Look at them they keep following

01:13Listen listen, we don't want to fight y'all. We're not trying to go to jail. My head's on my head

01:19I want my head

01:41Just for the cameras, we don't want no problems with these boys

01:49We don't want no problems with these boys

02:19We don't want no problems with these boys

02:49I

03:09Personally don't know Asap

03:11Rocky but I can tell you that he has tremendous support from the african-american community in this country

03:18Actually the one who knew about Asap Rocky was our first lady, right?

03:22Well, we working with State Department and we we hope to get him home soon

03:48I

04:11Think that we have not a racist society here. I don't see that angle at all

04:18You

04:22Use one's imagination and feel and think about what the situation is to a

04:28sit in a jail when you have and

04:33Feeling that you're absolutely innocent

04:35being

04:37Incarcerated being in isolation most hours of the day. It's been a very hard time for him

04:48I

04:55Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven for being unable to act Sweden has let our African community down in the United States

05:03I watched the tapes of Asap Rocky and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers free rocky. Okay

05:11It's a joke I'm disappointed in Sweden I've been there a few times

05:14I'm very disappointed that a judge cannot discern that this is not a man you hold

05:20Hostage like that because it's almost like a hostage situation for Asap right now

05:30Free Asap Rocky hold his head and hope he make it out of situation and get back to his life

05:35And maybe he can use platform to to open some eyes

05:38Worldwide on a worldwide scale what they doing to people that look like us

05:44A

05:51Client is happy about

05:57That he has been able to

06:00Express

06:03In his word words what has happened tonight was a was a great night for

06:09For Rocky and David and Vladimir a

06:11Wonderful night for their families. I think it's a it's actually a very good night for the United States of America and for the kingdom

06:17of Sweden

06:19The district court has convicted all three defendants of an assault in this case

06:25The court has decided that the defendants have been sentenced to conditional sentences

06:31The district court has found that there was no situation in which the defendants were entitled to use self-defense

07:01You

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