A drill rapper who tried to steal guns from cops and then boasted he would never be caught reportedly wept in a jail cell after his arrest last week.
Richard Sharp, a self-proclaimed member of the Chicago-based street gang Black Disciples, who goes by the alias Famous Richard, was arrested in Jamaica, Queens, on May 12.
According to authorities, the 24-year-old from Chicago, along with another unidentified person, was obstructing traffic when police asked him to leave the road.
He refused, the New York Post reports, telling officers at the scene, “I’ll take your pipe.”
Sharp had made similar comments in the past in videos posted to his TikTok account, where he was seen reaching for officers’ holstered guns.
And this time, a spokesman for the New York Police Department said Sharp “wanted to intimidate officers and aroused reasonable fear of taking the gun away from the officer.”
Richard Sharp, 24, a self-proclaimed member of the Chicago-based street gang Black Disciples, who go by the name Famous Richard, was arrested May 12 in Jamaica, Queens
Sharp has since been charged with making terrorist threats, obstructing government administration, resisting arrest, making threats and disorderly conduct
After his arrest last week, Sharp filmed a video of his release from a New York precinct.
He apparently tried to harass police like he does in his TikTok videos, but they repeatedly turned the tables, saying he was “crying in our cells when his phone was stolen.”
In one such video, filmed in Times Square, Sharp tells an official, “I am King David” – a reference to David Barksdale, the founder of the Black Disciples, who died in 1947.
“How are you, little one?” He continues to swear at the cop, who replies simply, “You’re the guy who got arrested.” “You cried in the cells, I remember that.”
In another video, apparently filmed in a Midtown Manhattan precinct, an officer turns to Sharp and says, ‘What’s the matter, son?’ You cried in the cells last week, didn’t you?’
‘Who told you that?’ Sharp demands.
“I saw you, brother,” replies the policeman.
Then he goes to another officer and asks: “I cried in the cells?”
“You cried in the cells, big guy,” he replies.
“Stop lying about my name.” “You made everyone on TikTok think I was actually crying.”
Sharp is pictured in the Manhattan Supreme Court after his arrest
Sharp has made a name for himself with TikTok videos in which he takes up police guns
Sharply mocked cops on TikTok, saying they wouldn’t catch him
The NYPD issued a security alert in April after Sharp posted TikTok videos of him approaching officers and reaching for their guns.
He also racially harassed an Asian official in one video, but later removed it.
Sharp has 12 other arrests, including three for firearm possession and a “history of assaulting law enforcement.”
Sharp, who was seen waving his arms to keep police from handcuffing him in footage of his arrest last week, has since been charged with making a terrorist threat, obstructing government administration, resisting arrest and threatening and disorderly conduct.
Under New York law, all of these charges are available on bail, and Sharp was released at his own discretion.
Still, he once again took to social media to taunt the police and claim they couldn’t catch him.
“I’m King David,” he says as he appears to be leaving a police station. “I’m out here again… y’all can’t catch me.”