More rappers-in-trouble news. US hip-hopper The Game was arrested on Friday in a shopping mall in North Carolina, apparently for the grand crime of wearing a Hallowe'en mask. Reports suggest that the rapper, real name Jayceon Taylor, was signing an autograph for a young girl when he was approached by police, who asked him to remove his mask. The Game refused, so the cops sprayed him and his bodyguard with pepper spray and arrested them both.
The police report, of course, tells it slightly differently, stating that The Game was behaving disruptively and swearing and that he refused to leave the shopping mall when asked. The Pepper spray was used when his entourage apparently surrounded police in a threatening manner.
The rap star told WFMY-TV: "They thought I was Rodney King, man. It was a case of mistaken identity, it's unfair, man. Their behaviour's unfair."