Rapper Nipsey Hussle ‘lifted up the neighbourhood he was shot in’

A man walks his dog past a street mural of the late rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles (Chris Pizzello/AP)

Nipsey Hussle was a hip-hop star who sought to raise up his neighbourhood until a friend from the same streets gunned him down, a prosecutor said in his closing argument.

“This man was different,” Los Angeles County deputy district attorney John McKinney told jurors, seeking to humanise Hussle after two weeks of evidence that dwelled on the technical details surrounding the 2019 shooting.