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50 Cent under fire for cruel video mocking teenager with disability

by Jesse Locke

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who has recently faced legal trouble for his cash stacks displayed during bankruptcy claims, has come under fire again for a cruel video he posted while taunting a teenaged employee of the Cincinnati International Airport.

In the 25-second video, which quickly went viral after it was shared on his Twitter account, the man who made his name as a drug dealer turned musician accused the visibly upset janitorial employee pushing a cart of being high on the job: “What kind of shit you think he took before he got to work today? He high as a motherfucker, right here in the airport!”

The parents of the video’s target, 19-year-old Andrew Farell, are now rightfully upset. It turns out that their son suffers from a disability along with crippling social anxiety. As they explained to Cincinnati news station WLWT, Andrew recently graduated from high school and got his first job. In the newscaster’s words, there was no “rhyme or reason” for Fiddy to berate Farrell:

“To put this out there saying my son is on drugs or whatever, that is part of his social anxiety,” said his father Kent Farrell. “He’s not wanting to talk, he’s not wanting to communicate, he’s walking on and he’s doing his job.”

“He’s very upset,” said Andrew’s mother, Amanda Kramer. “The more I thought about it, the more upset I got, the madder I got. This could hurt him for the future.”

Back in 2012, 50 Cent apologized after actress Holly Robinson Peete called him out for some insensitive comments to fans with autism. Farrell’s parents are now demanding another public apology.

[h/t WLWT]