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Snoop Dogg Denies Threatening CBS’s Gayle King After Backlash: ‘I’m Not A Violent Person’

John Bickley
Snoop Dogg Denies Threatening CBS’s Gayle King After Backlash: ‘I’m Not A Violent Person’
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Amid growing backlash — including from the president of CBS News and a former Obama national security adviser — entertainer Snoop Dogg insisted Sunday that he “didn’t threaten” CBS News anchor Gayle King in a viral, profanity-laced rant last week responding to King’s questions about a past sexual assault allegation against the late-Kobe Bryant.

“I’m a non-violent person,” the rapper said in an Instagram video post Saturday, as reported by Urban Hollywood. “When I said what I said, I spoke for the people who felt like Gayle was very disrespectful towards Kobe Bryant and his family. Now with that being said, what do I look like wanting some harm to come to a 70-year-old woman? I was raised way better than that.”

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