American rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty to assault as his trial in Sweden opened July 30, a month after a street fight that landed him in jail and became a topic of U.S.–Swedish diplomacy.
A$AP Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, is accused with two others of beating a 19-year-old man in Stockholm on June 30. Prosecutors played video footage in court that shows Mayers throwing a young man to the ground.
