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> American rapper Wiz Khalifa claimed on Twitter that he was handcuffed by customs and border patrol officers at LAX airport because he refused to disembark fro
by copsarebastards 11y ago
> American rapper Wiz Khalifa claimed on Twitter that he was handcuffed by customs and border patrol officers at LAX airport because he refused to disembark from his transporter.
I don't know whether the officers were justified in ordering him to get off the transporter (I tend to side with civilians), but this is kind of dumb. What was he expecting to happen? I can understand getting arrested intentionally to make a political point, but is this really the political stance he wants to take?
Either he was too dumb to know he was going to get arrested, or he's making a pretty irrelevant political point.
- DasIch 11y agoHe's a celebrity and this got his name in the news. Isn't that more than enough of a reason?
- copsarebastards 11y agoYou're right, I understand his motivation now, and I hate society a little more.
- DasIch 11y agoWell, it's not that different from writing blog posts in the hopes that they show up here. Humans are social and connections even asymetric ones are valueable.
- copsarebastards 11y agoMy objection is that Wiz Khalifa's bid for attention worked, despite the fact that he had nothing of value to say. I'd hope that if someone wrote something of no value it wouldn't make it onto the front page of HN.