No charges filed in alleged gun threat involving Apple's Dr. Dre
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department confirmed that rapper, producer, and key Apple employee Dr. Dre was temporarily detained without charges while police investigated an alleged gun threat.
Dre -- whose real name is Andre Young -- was "searched, handcuffed, and briefly detained in a patrol car," the Sheriff's Department told Billboard. Officers arrived at his Malibu home sometime before midday on Monday, after a man called saying he'd stopped in front of the house and had a handgun pulled on him when Dre ordered him to leave.
The musician has denied brandishing a gun, and police ultimately released him, noting that they couldn't find a weapon on the scene. Officers reportedly described him as cooperative, and said he consented to being searched.
Dre has a history of run-ins with the law, including multiple battery charges and a high-speed pursuit. Such incidents date back to the 1990s however, and in recent years he has tried to not only make a break from his past but establish himself as a businessman, for instance helping to co-found Beats, which Apple acquired for $3 billion in 2014.
He is now working with Apple, though his exact role at the company is unclear. The New York Times has referred to him as a "top consultant," but apart from his hosting a show on Beats 1 radio, the company has never specified his involvement.
Dre -- whose real name is Andre Young -- was "searched, handcuffed, and briefly detained in a patrol car," the Sheriff's Department told Billboard. Officers arrived at his Malibu home sometime before midday on Monday, after a man called saying he'd stopped in front of the house and had a handgun pulled on him when Dre ordered him to leave.
The musician has denied brandishing a gun, and police ultimately released him, noting that they couldn't find a weapon on the scene. Officers reportedly described him as cooperative, and said he consented to being searched.
Dre has a history of run-ins with the law, including multiple battery charges and a high-speed pursuit. Such incidents date back to the 1990s however, and in recent years he has tried to not only make a break from his past but establish himself as a businessman, for instance helping to co-found Beats, which Apple acquired for $3 billion in 2014.
He is now working with Apple, though his exact role at the company is unclear. The New York Times has referred to him as a "top consultant," but apart from his hosting a show on Beats 1 radio, the company has never specified his involvement.
Comments
If this was Tim Cook or Eddy Cue, they would have never been handcuffed while the cops sorted things out.
So a gun was never found, but a (black) man is arrested and detained based on a potentially false story.
i do have to wonder, if someone called the cops and said that I threatened them with a gun on the sidewalk outside my house, what would happen?
would the police cuff me upon arrival?
would they ask to search my house?
good thing I have security cameras recording 24 hours a day all around the property. I wonder if Dre does as well...?
It's been a very long time, but I seem to recall on the long-running series Cops people detained in cuffs of all "races" and then let go once the police determine they are not a threat to themselves or someone else.
If temporarily detaining someone while you look for an alleged weapon isn't procedure in Malibu unless you're "black," I'd be curious to know what the proper procedure is.
he likely pays someone to carry his wallet, except he probably only uses ApplePay, so then I guess he pays someone to carry his iThing, and then they pay for his stuff.
at this point, Dre can probably afford to pay someone to carry a gun etc as tim cook does, except maybe dre doesn't do that...
the rich are different, unless they started out in the 'hood
/s
(edited for clarity and sarcasm)
I think cali called it best... see below
cali said:
There may very well be more examples than this, but I’ve just spent time reading over some nigh incomprehensible “lyrics” and I wasn’t exactly raised in the hood, so forgive me if I missed any references to crime that were hidden in the wiggidy-wizzack. I’m not sure what “floss you like a motherfucker” would mean, for example.
Now… a kid writes this for a poetry assignment in school and who gets called on him? Probably not the parents, since the school system wants to remove them from the equation entirely (“it takes a village”, you see), so… ah, yes, the police. Because such content is indicative of the potential for a threat.
Then again, who knows these days. The police might not be called unless the kid is of a certain color, because it would be “racist” to try to “stifle” expression of “culture”…
Oh, and this is just his first album. I’m not going to bother with more; the point is made. Though I will quote the beginning of his newest work.
Gee, I can’t imagine why. Almost as though the last 50 or so years has been built around making “culture” into anything that “whitey” isn’t doing or something.Surely the police could assume someone of his status would have CCTV and they could request to view this calmly without having to detain anyone in handcuffs. Then again, what I see on the news of american police from this side of the pond is that there is a complete lack of common sense sometimes.
http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/flint-lead-poisoning-america-toxic-crisis