Cardi B Urges Parents To Teach Kindness After Javits Frimpong Killing

Cardi B urged parents to confront bullying after the killing of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong. She tied the Bronx teenager’s death to her own experience of being picked on in New York.

“Teach your kids to be fucking kind because it starts with you,” Cardi said on Instagram Live. She said children needed those lessons as early as first grade.

The rapper described how being picked on could push a child toward a gang for protection. She connected that pressure to her own experience, explaining that she understood the search for a group “because that’s practically what happened to me.”

She criticized parents who dismissed teachers’ complaints about their children. Giving a child sneakers and attention did not excuse enabling cruel behavior, she said.

Cardi also described hostility toward newly arrived immigrant children. She said even American-born children whose families came from the same country could target them. She rejected the idea that one racial or ethnic group alone was responsible.

She rejected city public schools for her children.

Frimpong was fatally shot on his way to school in the Bronx on October 29. Police were seeking three teenage boys in connection with the shooting, ABC7 New York reported.

His father said he knew who was responsible. He told ABC7 that Frimpong had been bullied at school and that the students involved had recently been suspended.

The father had brought Frimpong from Ghana about a year earlier, hoping to give him a better life. Religious leaders, relatives and neighbors gathered Friday at the spot where the teen collapsed.

Leandra Feliz, whose son Junior Guzman was killed at 15 in 2018, also attended. “I’m only here to show support to the family,” she said.

The city Department of Education said it was providing counseling and supporting the NYPD investigation.

The family was also trying to bring his mother to New York to say goodbye. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that President Donald Trump had agreed to grant her a visa immediately. The White House had not confirmed that agreement when

The Associated Press reported. No arrests had been made at that point, and the killing remained under investigation.