Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

==Legal issues==

=== Sexual assault case, prison sentence, appeal and release ===

In November 1993, Shakur and two other men were charged in New York with [[sodomy|sodomizing]] a woman in Shakur's hotel room. The woman, Ayanna Jackson, alleged that after she performed oral sex on Shakur at the public dance floor of a Manhattan nightclub, she went to his hotel room on a later day, when Shakur, record executive [[Jacques Agnant|Jacques "Haitian Jack" Agnant]], Shakur's road manager Charles Fuller and an unidentified fourth man apprehended and forced her to perform non-consensual oral sex on each of them.<ref name="Perez-Pena-1994" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Gladwell|first=Malcolm|date=December 2, 1994|title=Rapper Shakur guilty of sex abuse, not guilty of sodomy and gun charges|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/12/02/shakur-guilty-of-sex-abuse/08202f80-426e-42ee-af79-e0b3abf0f7b3/|access-date=January 6, 2022|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> Shakur was also charged with [[illegal possession of a firearm]] as two guns were found in the hotel room.<ref name="James-1995" /> Interviewed on ''[[The Arsenio Hall Show]]'', Shakur said he was hurt that "a woman would accuse me of taking something from her", as he had been raised in a female household and surrounded by women his whole life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tupac Shakur interview with "The Arsenio Hall Show" in 1994 [VIDEO&#93;|url=http://www.hip-hopvibe.com/2012/03/07/tupac-shakur-interview-with-the-arsenio-hall-show-in-1994-video/|author=TBTEntGroup on|date=March 7, 2012|publisher=Hip-hopvibe.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221084324/http://www.hip-hopvibe.com/2012/03/07/tupac-shakur-interview-with-the-arsenio-hall-show-in-1994-video/|archive-date=December 21, 2013|access-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref>

On December 1, 1994, Shakur was acquitted of three counts of sodomy and the associated gun charges, but convicted of two counts of first-degree sexual abuse for "forcibly touching the woman's buttocks" in his hotel room.<ref name="Perez-Pena-1994">{{Cite news|last=Perez-Pena|first=Richard|date=December 2, 1994|title=Wounded Rapper Gets Mixed Verdict In Sex-Abuse Case|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/02/nyregion/wounded-rapper-gets-mixed-verdict-in-sex-abuse-case.html|access-date=December 11, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="not-a-ganster" /> Jurors have said the lack of evidence stymied a sodomy conviction.<ref name="Vibe-1995">{{Cite journal|date=February 1995|title=Sweatin' Bullets: Tupac Shakur Dodges Death but Can't Beat the Rap|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fy0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=november+1993+tupac+police+atlanta&pg=PA23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206161417/https://books.google.com/books?id=Fy0EAAAAMBAJ&dq=november+1993+tupac+police+atlanta&pg=PA23|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 6, 2022|journal=Vibe|pages=23}}</ref> Shakur's lawyer characterized the sentence as "out of line" with the groping conviction and the setting of bail at $3&nbsp;million as "inhumane". Shakur's accuser later filed a civil suit against Shakur seeking $10&nbsp;million for punitive damages which was subsequently [[Settlement (litigation)|settled]].<ref name="Takedown">{{cite magazine|first=Connie|last=Bruck|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/07/07/the-takedown-of-tupac|title=The Takedown of Tupac|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=June 29, 1997|access-date=November 13, 2019|archive-date=November 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107130039/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/07/07/the-takedown-of-tupac|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 22, 1996|title=Doe v. Shakur (civil case)|url=https://casetext.com/case/jane-doe-plaintiff-v-tupac-a-shakur-and-charles-l-fuller-defendants?__cf_chl_f_tk=r9paSmBXDBK.XIRWIh.zgwssVpY1Rw9UP1.2E4khbuI-1642425136-0-gaNycGzNCT0|website=Casetext}}</ref>

After Shakur had been convicted of sexual abuse, Jacques Agnant's case was separated and closed via misdemeanor plea without incarceration.<ref name="Westhoff-2016" /><ref>{{cite AV media | people = Metzler, David (Director) | interviewer1 = [[Soledad O'Brien]] | interviewer2 = [[Ice-T]] | title = Who Shot Biggie & Tupac? [interview with "Haitian Jack"] | location = USA | publisher = Critical Content | year = 2017}}, premiered on television September 24, 2017, by [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox Broadasting Company]].</ref> [[A.&nbsp;J. Benza]] reported in ''[[New York Daily News]]'' Shakur's new disdain for Agnant who Shakur theorized had set him up with the case.<ref name="Westhoff-2016" /><ref name="Rodriguez-2011a" /> Shakur reportedly believed his accuser was connected to and had sexual relations with Agnant and [[James Rosemond|James "Henchman" Rosemond]], who he considered to be behind the 1994 Quad Studios shooting.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 5, 2014|title=Tupac believed his rape case was connected to his Quad Studios shooting|url=https://www.xxlmag.com/tupac-thought-rape-case-connected-quad-studio-shooting/|access-date=January 7, 2022|website=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]]}}</ref>

Shakur was unable to post the $3 million bond to keep himself free until sentencing so he surrendered himself to authorities at the [[Bellevue Hospital|Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward]] in New York City on December 23, 1994.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Arena |first=Salvatore |date=December 24, 1994 |title=Shakur Spending Holiday In Jail Ward |pages=3 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-shakur-surrenders-to-authorit/133713808/ |access-date=October 19, 2023}}</ref> At the time, he was still recovering from injuries he received on November 30, when he was shot five times and robbed at Quad Studios.<ref name=":7" /> In January 1995, Shakur was moved to the North Infirmary Command (NIC) on [[Rikers Island]] in [[the Bronx]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stasi |first=Linda |date=January 9, 1995 |title=Secure Shakur |pages=93 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-tupac-shakur-moved-to-rikers/133520802/ |access-date=October 16, 2023}}</ref> On February 7, 1995, he was sentenced to 18 months to {{frac|4|1|2}} years in prison by a judge who decried "an act of brutal violence against a helpless woman".<ref name="James-1995">{{Cite news|last=James | first = George|date=February 8, 1995|title=Rapper Faces Prison Term For Sex Abuse|page=B1|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/nyregion/rapper-faces-prison-term-for-sex-abuse.html|url-status=live|access-date=March 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405111309/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/nyregion/rapper-faces-prison-term-for-sex-abuse.html|archive-date=April 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Olan|first=Helaine|date=February 8, 1995|title=Rapper Shakur Gets Prison for Assault|page=A4|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

In March 1995, Shakur was transferred to [[Clinton Correctional Facility]] in [[Dannemora, New York|Dannemora]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=March 16, 1995|title=Shakur Upstate|work=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref> While imprisoned, he began reading again, which he had been unable to do as his career progressed due to his marijuana and alcohol habits. Works such as ''[[The Prince]]'' by Italian philosopher [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] and ''[[The Art of War]]'' by Chinese military strategist [[Sun Tzu]] sparked Shakur's interest in [[philosophy]], [[philosophy of war]] and [[military strategy]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Wagner James |last=Au |title=Yo, Niccolo! |url=http://archive.salon.com/media/media2961211.html |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |publisher=Salon Media Group Inc.|location=San Francisco, California|accessdate=December 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070929103156/http://archive.salon.com/media/media2961211.html |url-status=dead |archivedate=September 29, 2007 |date=December 11, 1996}}</ref> On April 29, 1995, Shakur married his girlfriend Keisha Morris; the marriage was later annulled.<ref name="xxl" /> While in prison, Shakur exchanged letters with celebrities such as [[Jim Carrey]] and [[Tony Danza]] among others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Carrey's Surprising Music Moments, From 2Pac to Kid Cudi |url=https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/jim-carrey-music-the-weeknd-2pac-kid-cudi/ |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=Complex |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 21, 2012 |title=Tony Danza Talks Friendship With Tupac |url=https://tvone.tv/7442/tony-danza-talks-friendship-with-tupac/ |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=TV One |language=en-US}}</ref> He was also visited by [[Al Sharpton]], who helped Shakur get released from [[solitary confinement]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 27, 2017|title=AL SHARPTON PLANS TO HELP MEEK THE SAME WAY HE HELPED TUPAC IN JAIL|url=https://thesource.com/2017/11/27/al-sharpton-plans-help-meek-meek-way-helped-tupac-jail/|access-date=January 5, 2022|website=[[The Source (magazine)|The Source]]}}</ref> 
 
By October 1995, pending judicial appeal, Shakur was incarcerated in New York.<ref name="Jet-1995" /> On October 12, he bonded out of the maximum security [[Dannemora (town), New York|Dannemora]] Clinton Correctional Facility in the process of appealing his conviction,<ref name="not-a-ganster" /> once [[Suge Knight]], CEO of Death Row Records, arranged for the posting of his $1.4&nbsp;million bond.<ref name="nyt-obit">{{Cite news|last=Pareles|first=Jon|date=September 14, 1996|title=Tupac Shakur, 25, Rap Performer Who Personified Violence, Dies|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 23, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917213218/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/14/arts/tupac-shakur-25-rap-performer-who-personified-violence-dies.html|archive-date=September 17, 2020}}</ref>

=== 1993 shooting in Atlanta ===
On October 31, 1993, Shakur was arrested in Atlanta for shooting two off-duty police officers, brothers Mark Whitwell and Scott Whitwell.<ref name="Smothers-1993">{{Cite news|last=Smothers|first=Ronald|date=November 2, 1993|title=Rapper Charged in Shootings of Off-Duty Officers|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/02/us/rapper-charged-in-shootings-of-off-duty-officers.html|access-date=December 24, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Atlanta police claimed the shooting occurred after the brothers were almost struck by a car carrying Shakur while they were crossing the street with their wives.<ref name="Harrington-1993">{{Cite news|last=Harrington|first=Richard|date=November 3, 1993|title=Guns N' Rappers: 3 Arrested In Shootings|language=en-US|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/11/03/guns-n-rappers-3-arrested-in-shootings/fa958468-a98c-44b1-8169-0f7b1bbe306f/|access-date=December 24, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> As they argued with the driver, Shakur's car pulled up and he shot the Whitwells in the buttocks and the abdomen.<ref name="Butler-2020">{{Cite web|last=Butler|first=Rhett|date=May 28, 2020|title=Redo '93: Tupac Shakur's Shootout With Police Proves Power To People|url=https://thesource.com/2020/05/28/redo-93-tupac-shakurs-shootout-with-police-proves-power-to-people/|access-date=December 24, 2021|website=The Source|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="estate">{{cite web|date=July 20, 1998|title=Shakur's Estate Hit With Default Claim Over Shooting|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1433981/19980720/story.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020127003340/http://www.mtv.com:80/news/articles/1433981/19980720/story.jhtml|archive-date=January 27, 2002|access-date=July 2, 2021|publisher=MTV News}}</ref> However, there are conflicting accounts that the Whitwells were harassing a black motorist and uttered racial slurs.<ref name="Butler-2020" /><ref name="Harrington-1993" /> According to some witnesses, Shakur and his entourage had fired in self-defense as Mark Whitwell shot at them first.<ref name="Vibe-1995" />

Shakur was charged with two counts of aggravated assault.<ref name="Smothers-1993" /> Mark Whitwell was charged with firing at Shakur's car and later with making false statements to investigators. Scott Whitwell admitted to possessing a gun he had taken from a [[Henry County, Georgia|Henry County]] police evidence room.<ref name="Butler-2020" /> Prosecutors ultimately dropped all charges against both parties.<ref name="estate"/> Mark Whitwell resigned from the force seven months after the shooting.<ref name="Vibe-1995"/> Both brothers filed civil suits against Shakur; Mark Whitwell's suit was settled out of court, while Scott Whitwell's $2&nbsp;million lawsuit resulted in a default judgment entered against the rapper's estate in 1998.<ref name="estate" />

===1994 Quad Studios shooting===
On November 30, 1994, while in New York recording verses for a mixtape of Ron G, Shakur was repeatedly distracted by his beeper.<ref name="Rodriguez-2011b">{{cite magazine |last=Rodriguez |first=Jason |date=September 2011 |title=Pit of snakes |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/news/2011/09/pit-of-snakes-2pacs-quad-studios-shooting-excerpt-from-sept-2011-issue |url-status=live |magazine=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]] Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219061305/http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2011/09/pit-of-snakes-2pacs-quad-studios-shooting-excerpt-from-sept-2011-issue/ |archive-date=February 19, 2019 |access-date=May 16, 2020}}</ref> Music manager [[Jimmy Henchman|James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond]] reportedly offered Shakur $7,000 to stop by Quad Studios, in Times Square, that night to record a verse for his client [[Shawn Pen|Little Shawn]].<ref name="Westhoff-2016"/><ref name="Rodriguez-2011b" /> Shakur was unsure, but agreed to the session as he needed the cash to offset legal costs. He arrived with Stretch and one or two others. In the lobby, three men robbed and beat him at gunpoint; Shakur resisted and was shot.<ref name="Jimmy Henchman review">{{cite news |last=Samaha |first=Albert |date=October 28, 2013 |title=James Rosemond, Hip-Hop Manager Tied to Tupac Shooting, Gets Life Sentence for Drug Trafficking |work=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York City |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/10/james_rosemond_life_sentence_drug_trafficking_tupac_shooting_ties.php |url-status=dead |access-date=November 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030071331/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/10/james_rosemond_life_sentence_drug_trafficking_tupac_shooting_ties.php |archive-date=October 30, 2013}}</ref> Shakur speculated that the shooting had been a set-up.<ref name="Jimmy Henchman review" /><ref name=":7">{{cite news |date=November 30, 1994 |title=Rap Artist Tupac Shakur Shot in Robbery |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/nyregion/rap-artist-tupac-shakur-shot-in-robbery.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215031012/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/30/nyregion/rap-artist-tupac-shakur-shot-in-robbery.html |archive-date=February 15, 2017}}</ref>

[[Against medical advice]], Shakur checked out of [[Metropolitan Hospital Center]] a few hours after surgery and secretly went to the house of the actress [[Jasmine Guy]] to recuperate.<ref name="Anderson-2020"/><ref name="Gelder-1994">{{Cite news |last=Gelder |first=Lawrence Van |date=December 3, 1994 |title=Rapper, Shot and Convicted, Leaves Hospital for Secret Site |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/03/nyregion/rapper-shot-and-convicted-leaves-hospital-for-secret-site.html |access-date=December 11, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The next day, Shakur arrived at a Manhattan courthouse bandaged in a wheelchair to receive the jury's verdict for his sexual abuse case.<ref name="Gelder-1994" /> Shakur spent the next few weeks being cared for by his mother and a private doctor at Guy's home.<ref name="Anderson-2020" /> The [[Fruit of Islam]] and former members of the Black Panther Party stood guard to protect him.<ref name="Anderson-2020" />

=== Setup accusations involving the Notorious B.I.G. ===
In a 1995 interview with ''[[Vibe (magazine)|Vibe]]'', Shakur accused [[Sean Combs]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Stewart |first=Alison |date=March 18, 2008 |title=What Did Sean 'Puffy' Combs Know? |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88461862 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119222826/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88461862 |archive-date=January 19, 2012 |access-date=January 7, 2012 |publisher=Npr.org}}</ref> [[James Rosemond|Jimmy Henchman]],<ref name="Jimmy Henchman review" /> and the Notorious B.I.G. – who were at Quad Studios at the time – among others, of setting up or being privy to the November 1994 robbery and shooting.<ref name="Comment on 1995 Vibe interview">{{cite news |last=Philips |first=Chuck |date=October 11, 2012 |title=Commentary on 1995 Tupac Recordings |newspaper=chuckphilipspost.com |url=http://chuckphilipspost.com |url-status=live |access-date=November 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108130234/http://chuckphilipspost.com/ |archive-date=November 8, 2013}}</ref> The accusations were significant to the East–West Coast rivalry in hip-hop; in 1995, months after the robbery, Combs and B.I.G. released the track "[[Who Shot Ya?]]", which Shakur took as a mockery of his shooting and thought they could be responsible, so he released a [[diss song]], "[[Hit 'Em Up]]", in which he targeted B.I.G., Combs, [[Bad Boy Records|their record label]], [[Junior M.A.F.I.A.]], and at the end of "Hit 'Em Up", he mentions rivals [[Mobb Deep]] and [[Chino XL]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 28, 2013 |title=Tupac Shakur Interview 1995 « Chuck Philips PostChuck Philips Post |url=http://chuckphilipspost.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828224622/http://chuckphilipspost.com/ |archive-date=August 28, 2013 |access-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 17, 2008 |title=Tupac and Biggie's battle songs |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-na-quadlyrics17mar17-htmlstory.html |access-date=June 1, 2021 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodriguez |first=Jayson |title=Game Manager Jimmy Rosemond Recalls Events The Night Tupac Was Shot, Says Session Was 'All Business' |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1584524/game-manager-jimmy-rosemond-recalls-events-the-night-tupac-was-shot-says-session-was-all-business/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140922061439/http://www.mtv.com/news/1584524/game-manager-jimmy-rosemond-recalls-events-the-night-tupac-was-shot-says-session-was-all-business/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 22, 2014 |access-date=June 1, 2021 |website=[[MTV News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=2Pac (Ft. Outlawz) – Hit 'Em Up |url=https://genius.com/2pac-hit-em-up-lyrics |access-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The Notorious B.I.G. – Who Shot Ya? |url=https://genius.com/The-notorious-big-who-shot-ya-lyrics |access-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref>

In March 2008, [[Chuck Philips]], in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', reported on the 1994 ambush and shooting.<ref name="Queen for a day Henchman proffer">{{Cite news |last=Philips |first=Chuck |date=June 12, 2012 |title=James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond Implicated Himself in 1994 Tupac Shakur Attack: Court Testimony |newspaper=The Village Voice |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/jimmy_henchman_implicated.php |url-status=dead |access-date=June 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629033839/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/06/jimmy_henchman_implicated.php |archive-date=June 29, 2012}}</ref> The newspaper later retracted the article since it relied partially on FBI documents later discovered forged, supplied by a man convicted of fraud.<ref>{{cite news |date=April 7, 2008 |title=Times retracts Shakur story |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |location=Los Angeles, California |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-naw-quad17mar17-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=March 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304034003/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-naw-quad17mar17-story.html |archive-date=March 4, 2018}}</ref> In June 2011, convicted murderer Dexter Isaac, incarcerated in Brooklyn, issued a confession that he had been one of the gunmen who had robbed and shot Shakur at Henchman's order.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Jennifer |date=June 21, 2001 |title=Hip hop talent agent arrested charged with operating drug ring |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/wpix-hip-hop-talent-agent-arrested,0,6053998.story |url-status=dead |access-date=May 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829192455/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/wpix-hip-hop-talent-agent-arrested%2C0%2C6053998.story |archive-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Isaac admits to Tupac attack on Henchman orders">{{cite news |last=KTLA News |date=July 13, 2012 |title=Convicted Killer Confesses to Shooting West Coast Rapper Tupac Shakur |newspaper=The Courant |url=http://www.courant.com/entertainment/ktla-inmate-confesses-to-shooting-tupac,0,5503225.story |url-status=dead |access-date=September 14, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110619030221/http://www.courant.com/entertainment/ktla-inmate-confesses-to-shooting-tupac%2C0%2C5503225.story |archive-date=June 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Watkins |first=Greg |date=June 15, 2011 |title=Exclusive: Jimmy Henchman Associate Admits to Role in Robbery/Shooting of Tupac; Apologizes To Pac & B.I.G.'s Mothers. |newspaper=Allhiphop.com |url=http://allhiphop.com/2011/06/15/exclusive-jimmy-henchman-associate-admits-to-role-in-robberyshooting-of-tupac-apologizes-to-pac-b-i-g-s-mothers |url-status=live |access-date=June 5, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607221300/http://allhiphop.com/2011/06/15/exclusive-jimmy-henchman-associate-admits-to-role-in-robberyshooting-of-tupac-apologizes-to-pac-b-i-g-s-mothers/ |archive-date=June 7, 2012}}</ref>

=== Other criminal or civil cases ===

==== 1991 Oakland Police Department lawsuit ====

On October 17, 1991, two [[Oakland Police Department]] officers stopped Shakur for [[jaywalking]] at a downtown intersection.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Martinez |first=Don |date=November 13, 1991 |title=Oakland Rapper Files Claim Against 2 Cops |pages=2 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-tupac-shakur/133738115/ |access-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref> According to Shakur, officers Alex Boyovic and Kevin Rogers asked him for his ID and pressed him about his name before choking him, throwing him to the ground and slamming his head on the concrete.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Remembering the Time Tupac Shakur Sued the Oakland Police for $10 Million |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11696060/its-tupac-day-in-oakland-where-he-once-sued-the-police-for-10-million |access-date=March 20, 2022 |website=KQED |date=June 16, 2016 |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 14, 1991 |title=Rapper Sues Police |pages=B-4 |work=The Modesto Bee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-modesto-bee-tupac-shakur-sues-oaklan/133749145/ |access-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref> Shakur filed a $10&nbsp;million lawsuit against the officers for [[police brutality]].<ref name=":9" /> The case was [[Settlement (litigation)|settled]] for about $43,000.<ref name="nyt-obit" /> It was later revealed that this incident was the onset of Shakur's autoimmune disease [[Alopecia areata|alopecia]], which led him to shave his head bald.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kimble |first=Julian |date=May 5, 2023 |title=How Allen Hughes Unraveled the Myth of Tupac and Found Catharsis in 'Dear Mama' |url=https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/5/5/23711749/tupac-2pac-dear-mama-allen-hughes-interview-afeni-shakur |access-date=October 20, 2023 |website=The Ringer |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":8" />

==== Misdemeanor assault convictions ====
On April 5, 1993, charged with felonious assault, Shakur allegedly threw a microphone and swung a baseball bat at rapper Chauncey Wynn, of the group M.A.D., at a concert at [[Michigan State University]]. Shakur claimed the bat was a part of his show, that he never swung it, and that there was no criminal intent.<ref name="The Argus-1994">{{cite news|title=Rapper sentenced for assault|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19941101&id=n0AoAAAAIBAJ&pg=3900,36494|access-date=August 27, 2013|newspaper=The Argus|date=November 1, 1994|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208044720/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19941101&id=n0AoAAAAIBAJ&pg=3900%2C36494|url-status=live}}</ref> Nonetheless, on September 14, 1994, Shakur pleaded guilty to a [[misdemeanor]] and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, twenty of them suspended on condition that he complete 35 hours of community service.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rapper Tupac Shakur to face assault charge|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19940909&id=C0xIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4115,3582492|access-date=August 27, 2013|newspaper=[[Ocala Star-Banner]]|date=September 9, 1994|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208044705/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19940909&id=C0xIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4115%2C3582492|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="The Argus-1994" />

Slated to star as Sharif in the 1993 [[Hughes Brothers]]' film ''[[Menace II Society]]'', Shakur was replaced by actor Vonte Sweet after allegedly assaulting one of the film's directors, Allen Hughes. In early 1994, Shakur served 15 days in jail after being found guilty of the assault.<ref>Sullivan 2003, p. 80.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tupac Shakur Biography |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/tupac-shakur/biography |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 27, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825104437/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/tupac-shakur/biography |archive-date=August 25, 2013}}</ref> The prosecution's evidence included a ''[[Yo! MTV Raps]]'' interview in which Shakur boasted that he had "beat up the director of ''Menace II Society''".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/tupacs-temper-five-greatest-freakouts-from-mtv-to-jail-time-6461799 |title=TUPAC'S TEMPER: FIVE GREATEST FREAKOUTS, FROM MTV TO JAIL TIME |date=May 10, 2012 |first=Victor |last=Gonzalez |newspaper=[[Miami New Times]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101190821/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/tupacs-temper-five-greatest-freakouts-from-mtv-to-jail-time-6461799 |archive-date=January 1, 2016}}</ref>

==== Concealed weapon case ====
In 1994, Shakur was arrested in Los Angeles, when he was stopped by police on suspicion of speeding. Police found a semiautomatic pistol in the car, a felony offense because a prior conviction in 1993 in Los Angeles for carrying a concealed firearm.<ref>{{Cite news|date=May 6, 1994|title=Rapper Tupac Shakur charged|work=[[United Press International|UPI]]|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/05/06/Rapper-Tupac-Shakur-charged/3414768196800/|access-date=June 2, 2022}}</ref> On April 4, 1996, Shakur was sentenced to 120 days in jail for violating his release terms and failing to appear for a road cleanup job,<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 6, 1996|title=Rapper Sentenced for Violating Probation|work=[[Sfgate]]|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rapper-Sentenced-for-Violating-Probation-2987161.php|access-date=June 2, 2022}}</ref> but was allowed to remain free awaiting appeal. On June 7, his sentence was deferred via appeals pending in other cases.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/507730/jail-term-put-on-hold-for-rapper-tupac-shakur/|title=Jail Term Put On Hold For Rapper Tupac Shakur|website=[[MTV]]|date=June 8, 1996|access-date=April 8, 2020|archive-date=June 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627233640/http://www.mtv.com/news/507730/jail-term-put-on-hold-for-rapper-tupac-shakur/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==== 1995 wrongful death suit ====
On August 22, 1992, in Marin City, Shakur performed outdoors at a festival. For about an hour after the performance, he signed autographs and posed for photos. A conflict broke out and Shakur allegedly drew a legally carried [[Colt Mustang]] but dropped it on the ground. Shakur claimed that someone with him then picked it up when it accidentally discharged.<ref name="marin">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marin-slaying-case-against-rapper-opens-3122665.php|title=Marin slaying case against rapper opens |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=November 3, 1995 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412011323/http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marin-slaying-case-against-rapper-opens-3122665.php |archive-date=April 12, 2013}}</ref><ref name="settlement">{{cite web|title=Settlement in Rapper's Trial for Boy's Death |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=November 8, 1995 |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-Settlement-in-Rapper-s-Trial-For-3019996.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513061224/http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-Settlement-in-Rapper-s-Trial-For-3019996.php |archive-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref>

About 100 yards (90 meters) away in a schoolyard, Qa'id Walker-Teal, a boy aged 6 on his bicycle, was fatally shot in the forehead. Police matched the bullet to a [[.38 caliber|.38-caliber]] pistol registered to Shakur. His stepbrother Maurice Harding was arrested in suspicion of having fired the gun, but no charges were filed. Lack of witnesses stymied prosecution. In 1995, Qa'id's mother filed a [[Wrongful death claim|wrongful death suit]] against Shakur, which was settled for about $300,000 to $500,000.<ref name="marin" /><ref name="settlement" />

==== C. Delores Tucker lawsuit ====
Civil rights activist and fierce rap critic [[C. Delores Tucker]] sued Shakur's estate in federal court, claiming that lyrics in "How Do U Want It" and "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch" inflicted emotional distress, were slanderous, and invaded her privacy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-tupaccritic1aug0197-story.html|title=Rap critic sues Shakur's estate for defamation|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 1997}}</ref> The case was later dismissed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/237/275/564878/|title=C. Delores Tucker; William Tucker, Her Husbandv.richard Fischbein; Belinda Luscombe; Newsweek Magazine; Johnnie L. Roberts; Time Inc.c. Delores Tucker; William Tucker, Appellants, 237 F.3d 275 (3d Cir. 2001)|website=Justia Law}}</ref>