Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a prominent rap artist with numerous hit songs. PHOTO: REUTERS
A video on Khalifa’s Instagram site shows three US Customs and Border Protection officers pinning Khalifa to the floor on Saturday and telling him to quit resisting.
“I am not resisting, sir,” Khalifa, 27, says in the video.
In a separate video on his Twitter site, Khalifa is shown standing handcuffed with the officers.
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“I didn’t do nothing,” Khalifa tells them. “What you want to do? Put me in jail because I didn’t listen to what you say?”
Jaime Ruiz, a US Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said Khalifa was handcuffed but not arrested. Ruiz said travellers are treated with respect by officers, but that they must follow orders for their own safety and those of others. According to Ruiz, Khalifa failed to do so.
Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a prominent rap artist with numerous hit songs. His No 1 song, See You Again, was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for more than two months this year.
Khalifa said on Twitter he was returning to the United States from a trip to France and Finland.
On Twitter, he tweeted, “All because I didn’t want to ditch the technology everyone will be using in the next 6 months. Do what you want kids.” Khalifa said he came from a generation that rode hoverboards, which resemble skateboards as they hover above the ground.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2015.
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