Racist DJ in New York

[New York Red]

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey was arrested Friday on charges of harassment and endangering the welfare of a child amid an uproar over his on-air racial and sexual rants about a radio rival's wife and 4-year-old daughter.

 

Police officials had launched a hate crime investigation of DJ Star on Thursday after reviewing a transcript of his recent remarks about DJ Envy and his family.

 

DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was contacted by police on Friday and ordered to surrender a 9mm handgun and target practice permit at Police Headquarters. When he arrived, he was arrested and taken to the 1st Precinct stationhouse in lower Manhattan, said police spokesman Paul Browne.

 

After city Councilman John C. Liu and other outraged elected officials called a press conference to publicly scold Torain, he was fired on Wednesday from his job at Clear Channel Radio's Power 105.1 FM. Clear Channel, a unit of Clear Channel Communications Inc., said it found his statements ``wholly unacceptable.''

 

Not satisfied, the politicians demanded a criminal investigation and immediately got one.

 

``This is a real consequence for Torain and sends a real message to other would-be racist pedophile radio stooges that they are not immune from the law,'' Liu said in a statement.

 

Torain's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, had apologized on behalf of his client on Thursday, calling the remarks ``unsuitable and inappropriate.''

 

But he told 1010 WINS on Friday, "They were in response to having been goaded for several days by the other side."

 

In the comments, made between May 3 and Monday, Torain co-host of the ``Star & Buc Wild Morning Show'' offered $500 to any listener who could provide information about the rival DJ's daughter's school and used racial slurs when talking about his wife, who is part Asian.

 

``I will come for your kids,'' Torain said, according to transcribed excerpts provided by Liu's office. ``I finally got the information on his slant-eyed, whore wife.''

 

Torain also called the couple's child a ``little half a lo mein eater'' and said he wanted to ``do an R. Kelly on your seed, on your little baby girl. I would like to tinkle on her,'' according to the excerpts.

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Edited May 13, 2006 by New York Red

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