Snoop alleged that he was ‘snatched’ out of his car by the Swedish police due to the colour of his skin. PHOTO: FILE
No stranger to having a brush with law-enforcement agencies, Snoop Dogg’s latest run-in took place when he was arrested in Sweden on suspicion of drugs. But the rapper, who was released after undergoing a sobriety test, claimed that his latest arrest was nothing short of racial-profiling, reported The Guardian.
Snoop accused the Swedish police of pulling him over due to the colour of his skin and alleged he was ‘snatched’ out of his car. In a series of Instagram video rants, he criticised the police for their lack of evidence. “In the police station, doing a report on me because, profile, racial profiling. They came [and] snatched me out of my car, brought me down here,” he posted. “[They’ve] got me in the back of a police car in Sweden, pulled me over for nothing, taking us to the station … I ain’t did nothing, all I did was that I came to this country and did a concert.”
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Swedish Idol Judge Alexander Bard later clarified to music website Billboard that the arrest shouldn’t be considered as racial profiling, and was simply part of the Swedish authorities’ recent pursuit of celebrities. “This arrest wasn’t racial-profiling, which is an American [phenomenon], not a Swedish phenomenon. But it was clearly a case of celebrity-profiling,” the judge stipulated.
Following the incident, Snoop pledged never to return to the country, reported IANS. “On my way to a police station in Sweden,” he said in a video that seemed to have been filmed in the back of a police car. “Sorry about that, all the fans in Sweden. I’ll never be back to this country. You all can thank your police chief and all the people that run your police department. It’s been real. Thank you, but I’m gone.”
A spokesman for the central Uppsala region, Daniel Nilsson, later told The Local, a Swedish news website, that they felt the singer was “under the influence of narcotics” at the time of his arrest. With the results of his doping test yet to be revealed, it’s not known whether Snoop was actually under the influence or found in possession of any illegal drugs.
Swedish law deems cannabis extracts to be illegal narcotic drugs. Snoop is popular for his use of marijuana, a drug that has been decriminalised in the United States, mostly for medicinal purposes. This isn’t the first time that the rapper was at loggerheads with law-enforcers of another country. He was previously banned from visiting Norway for two years in 2012 after he had attempted to enter the country with a small amount of cannabis, reported BBC.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 28th, 2015.
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