US rap star Foxy Brown held a press conference at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Brooklyn yesterday to speak about her arrest last week in Florida, which, she seems to be saying, aint her fault.
As you'll remember, the hip hopper was charged with battery and violently resisting an officer back on 15 Feb after she got into a dispute with the manager of a beauty shop, Sam Hayssam, who claimed she had refused to leave the shop when it closed because she was in the store's bathroom, fixing her hair with hair glue. She is alleged to have subsequently attacked the store manager with the glue and damaged displays in the shop.
Brown, real name Inga Marchand, was released the day after her arrest, and now faces probation problems in relation to the incident as well as the charges themselves. According to officials in New York, Marchand violated the terms of her ongoing probation, not just by getting arrested, but by travelling to Florida without getting the permission of her probation officer.
Claiming that she would be completely exonerated of the charges, Brown told reporters: "For the last week, I have been vilified in the media as assaulting a store owner. What the media fails to forget is there are always two sides to a story and perception isn't always reality... the only crime I am guilty of committing is being a young black female celebrity in Broward County."
She went on to criticise the local police department, and shop owner Hayssam, who, she says, is a greedy, grasping type, out to make cash from the incident. She continued: "I am the victim of an overzealous police department who engaged in police brutality and a money hungry store owner whose motives are for me to pay his mortgage on his house and his children's tuition".
Excuse me if I feel slightly cynical.