Politics
Nearly 30 years after Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder, the trial of Duane Keffe D Davis, a former gang leader charged in the shooting, has begun with jury selection. Prosecutors say Davis was in a white Cadillac with others that pulled alongside Shakur's car and opened fire, and Davis had previously written in a 2019 memoir that he was in the vehicle and described a gun being passed to someone in the backseat before shots were fired. Davis's attorneys have argued he falsely placed himself at the center of the case for personal gain, an argument raised in a petition that was denied by the Nevada Supreme Court.
Le Monde and NBC News offer brief, straightforward factual summaries of the trial's start, framing it primarily as the resolution of a long-unsolved, famous cold case with minimal added interpretive context.
France 24 and BBC frame the trial as a long-awaited cultural moment, providing deep background on the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry, gang turf wars, and Tupac's cultural/political legacy (his mother's Black Panther ties). BBC in particular emphasizes narrative, mystery, and mythologization of the case.
New York Post frames the story around the legal mechanics of the case—prosecution's theory, evidence rulings, and defense arguments—drawing an explicit comparison to the JFK assassination in terms of mythologization, while detailing the specific alleged participants in the shooting car.