Rapper Kidd Creole has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City.

A Manhattan jury has found rapper Kidd Creole guilty of manslaughter in connection with the 2017 fatal stabbing of a homeless man on the street.

The trial of rapper Kidd Creole has begun in New York City with his lawyer telling a jury it was self-defense when the hip-hop pioneer stabbed a homeless man to death in 2017.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Charles Scriven is a retired policeman from the Jacksonville Police Department -- the predecessor of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. He fought for equality for both himself and others and rose through the ranks to be the department’s first African-American chief. On Saturday, Scriven was honored by the Brotherhood of Police Officers, a minority organization established in 1979 to make sure all police officers are treated equally. “We had limitations and part of the problem was removing some of those limitations so you could do your job,” Scriven said. “A person who was respected by his peers.”Decades later, Scriven has a message for all police officers.