Posted on 08/03/2016 5:25:18 AM PDT by marktwain
Dr. Dre is an extremely successful business man and music mogul. He has built an empire on music, video, movies, and a sale to Apple. He may have a net worth of over a billion dollars. He is the black man in handcuffs in the white t-shirt. Seem bizarre? So is the story. A person who is unnamed claims that Dr. Dre displayed a gun while asking him to leave. Dr. Dre has a different version of events. From cnsnews.com:
Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, told sheriff's deputies he didn't have a gun and that the man was blocking his driveway. He says the man moved his car but parked nearby. He says the man drove off after Dre recorded video of him.More information was available at atlantablackstar.com. Everyone is hyped about threats to black men and to police officers. The last month has been a media frenzy following to police shooting of two black men and the assassinations of eight police officers. This situation was handled with a minimum of muss or fuss. From atlantablackstar.com:
Dre was briefly handcuffed while deputies investigated. No weapon was found at the scene, but deputies say the man initiated a citizen's arrest for misdemeanor brandishing a firearm.
Officers say the music producer was cooperative and consented to the search. He denied all allegations of the gun, informing police the man was parked directly in front of his driveway and blocking him in. The rapper asked him to leave – and he did – but immediately came back and parked in almost the exact same spot at the median in front of the home. Dre pulled out a cellphone to record what was going on and then the man drove off.There is a video at atlantablackstar.com that shows some of the handcuffing.
Pigeons and Planes reported that even though no weapon was found, the driver filed a police report. The case will go to the District Attorney, who will then decide if there is a legitimate case against the hip-hop artist.
Dre said the driver had previously engaged in a road-rage-type incident on the highway and followed him home, according to an LA Times source close to the investigation.
“He may not have been hauled in, booked ans charged but his liberty surely was halted.”
Yes his liberty was taken from him for those moments, and for what? Because someone said gun? This is getting rediculous. We are either a nation of free men our we are not. His freedom is just as valuable as ours.
why oh why do police have the authority to detain someone, in handcuffs no less, just on the word of “some guy”?
You're right! My bad...
It would be nice if the propagandist writing this article took a moment to research the law on this. Cops in California are required by law to accept citizen’s arrests. To refuse to do so would place the cop in violation of the law. At one time, cops were required to book on a citizen’s arrest but now they have the option of taking the most appropriate enforcement action based on the information provided. In this case it sounds like they released him pursuant to 849B of the California Penal Code which says there isn’t enough evidence to proceed with the arrest. The cops are only the custodians, the person making the arrest is responsible.
His head is behind the wall.
Thank you for the clarification.
There’s a legal difference between being detained and being arrested. If a cop pulls you over for speeding, he is detaining you. If he thinks you may be a threat, he may cuff you or put you in the squad car. His first concern (in theory) is to control the environment.
FYI
I happen to know Andre Young and have for many many years, HE NEVER GOES ANYWHERE without ARMED SECURITY. I didn’t look at the video but you can be guaranteed he had his Armed Security with him. At the very least they were in the House, just Like they Always are at all of his homes.
Misdemeanor brandishing of a firearm, in California?
This all sounds like baloney. I’m sure his thoroughly competent lawyers will settle this if they haven’t already.
911 is a joke!
CC
I believe they call that "detained". He's cuffing you for his safety until things are sorted out.
Thus the courts have ruled. Unfortunately, it has become policy, instead of a judiciously applied judgement call.
Handcuffing a well known billionaire “for officer safety” is quite a bit different than handcuffing a carload of speeding ruffians with gang tattoos “for officer safety”.
One size is applied to all, in the sacred name of political correctness.
I believe “detained” and “arrested” are two different things.
I dream of a day when the police respond to calls of “a man with a gun” the same way they would respond to “a man with an umbrella”.
Except, of course, that keeping and bearing umbrellas is NOT specifically protected under the Constitution....
What amuses me about this article is Dean Weingarten, a person with redeeming value, making effort to write about Dr. Dre, a person with zero redeeming value.
Whatever else Andre may be - or not — he is a United States Citizen with Constitutional rights.
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