In the last few hours, chaos and anxiety were created at the Bad Bunny concert, after a 58-year-old man planned to carry out an attack on a minority at the reggaeton singer’s show in Atlanta, United States.
The man was identified as Mark Adams Prieto, who planned to murder African-American people at a concert by the Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny to generate “a race war” before the November presidential elections, according to federal prosecutors.
Prieto is in the custody of the authorities and could face a sentence of up to 40 years in prison. In the past, he would have been investigated by Arizona state authorities, when he confessed to a source about his plans to start a race war before the end of the year elections. The conversations became more serious to the point of developing a plan to end the lives of blacks, Jews or Muslims.
Why attack at the Bad Bunny concert?
The man is openly racist and was a weapons seller at a fair. According to the informant, Prieto was confident that as many African-American people as possible would attend a “Rap” concert, the perfect point to commit the crime.
“Because as crime got worse in Los Angeles, St. Louis and all these other cities, all the black people moved out of those places and moved to Atlanta. That’s why it’s not so good anymore. And they have been there for a couple of years,” Prieto noted in his confession.
Formally, Mark Adams Prieto will face charges of possession of unregistered firearms, weapons trafficking and transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime; if found guilty, he faces 40 years in prison.
Bad Bunny raises his voice against racism
The urban music singer, Bad Bunny, is not a person who publicly expresses his opinion on political issues, however, after the murder of George Floyd, he spoke out against racial violence and people who used the “Black Lives Matter” as a fashion.
“At the moment, we are working on how we can contribute, both economically and humanitarianally, using the resources we have to support and be part, if in some way, of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. There are artists who only download a photo or publish a short message to calm public pressure or to look good, I want to go deeper and see how I can serve and how I can help fight the monstrous system that has been in place for several centuries. It is a problem that may not be resolved by the time I die, but at least I will know that I will have contributed so that future generations, with faith, enjoy freedom and justice,” Bad Bunny declared in an interview with The Times.
