Editing Tupac Shakur (section)

=== 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>