Arrest warrant issued for Kiwi rapper in Lamborghini disabled parking assault case
Saturday, 7 December 2024
Kiwi rapper Thomas Macdonald failed to appear for sentencing, which has led to an arrest warrant being issued.
The rapper previously made headlines for parking his Lamborghini in mobility spaces, angering the disabled community.
Macdonald confronted a man who posted his parking violations, leading to a physical altercation and assault charge.
A Kiwi rapper who previously made headlines for parking his Lamborghini in mobility parks has been issued an arrest warrant by a judge.
Thomas Macdonald, 29, and star of the popular Facebook page S**t Drivers of New Zealand, pleaded guilty in July to a charge of assault involving an older man who allegedly posted his parking violations, leading to a physical altercation and the assault charge.
Macdonald, who goes by the stage name Tom Francis was understood to have failed to appear for sentencing at the Waitakere District Court on Thursday morning, leading to the judge’s issue of the arrest warrant.
Earlier this year, Macdonald also known for his collaboration with Snoop Dogg, was outed for parking his orange Lamborghini in disabled parking spaces on social media and on S**t Drivers of New Zealand, a Facebook account with 35,000 followers.
A photo shared to his Instagram on March 4 which was later removed, showed the artist, posing and grinning in front of his bright orange sports Lamborghini inside the Auckland showroom in Grey Lynn.
Two photos of a Lambo with the same licence plate in mobility parks were then posted to the S**t Drivers of New Zealand Facebook page.
One image shows his vehicle in a disabled park on Taupo's Te Heuheu Street on March 10. A second photo shows it in a mobility spot at Auckland's Albany Westfield Mall later that week.
This prompted those in New Zealand's disabled community to share their frustration and disappointment with the 'self-entitled' rapper.
'The issue of un-permitted people using mobility parking spaces is they have no respect for the disabled people, they take their parking, stealing their independence, stealing whatever little pride and dignity they have left,“ one 61-year-old man who lives in the Bay of Islands said.