Young Thug associate Kenneth "Lil Woody" Copeland has been designated a hostile witness in the YSL RICO trial after he compared the size of a detective's brain to that of a squirrel's.
In an appearance in court on Monday, August 12, Copeland became frustrated with questions lobbied against him by state prosecutors and launched into a rant. "Like I told you before y'all called me to trial, I have lied, I made things up," he said, as shown in the clip below. "I told y'all this before y'all brought me in this courtroom and I'm telling you now. You asked me about 2015, I had got my life together. Y'all are trying to put this on my conscience, y'all are trying to put people's lives in my hands."
He said that he doesn't want to "lie" on people and suggested that he has been "pressured" by prosecutors. "I'm tired of y'all 'cause y'all know y'all wrong, and y'all Black people doing this to us," he continued. "Leave me alone... Man, y'all pissing me off. Listen, I don't recall nothing I said to no police."
As the questions kept coming, to which Copeland mostly replied that he "does not recall," he made a disparaging remark about one of the detectives involved in the case.
"Detective Thorpe, his brain was the size of a squirrel brain. You could tell him anything and he'd go for it," he said, to which the prosecutor asked for him to be labeled as a hostile witness, which the judge granted. "What that mean?" he asked. Judge Whitaker told him that he doesn't need to worry about it because it just impacts how the prosecution asks the questions.
During another moment on Monday, Copeland said that he has been harassed by police and previously falsely placed the blame on Thug because he believed that the police would "never mess with him."
"My whole motive was Thug did it because... I knew he didn't do it and they couldn't lock him up," he said.
Per Fox 5 Atlanta, the state prosecutor asked Copeland if he was involved in the death of Donovan "Nut" Thomas. He said that he was not involved. When asked about an alleged trip he took to Miami alongside other YSL associates, he said, "I don't recall."
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