{"id":6139,"date":"2013-02-25T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mc-hammer-arrested-in-northern-california\/"},"modified":"2013-02-25T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T06:05:45","slug":"mc-hammer-arrested-in-northern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mc-hammer-arrested-in-northern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"MC Hammer Arrested in Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"

MC Hammer was arrested in Northern California on Thursday for allegedly obstructing an officer. <\/p>\n

The rapper made the arrest known on Saturday with a series of tweets suggesting that he was a victim of racial profiling.<\/p>\n

Hammer (who was born Stanley Kirk Burrell) was reportedly sitting in a car outside a shopping center in Dublin, a city east of Oakland, when he was approached by a police officer. <\/p>\n

“Chubby elvis looking dude was tapping on my car window, I rolled down the window and he said ‘Are you on parole or probation?'” Hammer recounted on Twitter.<\/p>\n

“While I was handing him my ID he reached in my car and tried to pull me out the car but forgot he was on a steady donut diet\u2026. It was comical to me until he pulled out his guns, blew his whistle and yelled for help (MallCop) !!! <\/p>\n

But make no mistake he’s dangerous \u2026. only thing more dangerous than a scared man with a gun, is a scared man with an agenda, a gun and a badge. I was citied for obstruction smh.”<\/p>\n

According to the Dublin Police, Hammer was in a vehicle with expired registration, and he was not the registered owner. <\/p>\n

“After asking Hammer who the registered owner was he became very argumentative and refused to answer the officer’s questions,” police spokesman Herb Walters said. <\/p>\n

Hammer was arrested on suspicion of resisting an officer and obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties; he was booked and released on bail from Santa Rita Jail, with a court date set for next month.<\/p>\n

Hammer concluded his tweeted account of the incident by describing it as a “teachable moment” and an “eye opener.” <\/p>\n

“I will now answer his question,” he wrote. “contrary to his personal beliefs, all people of color are not on parole or probation fat boy!!!”<\/p>\n

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{MC Hammer in Action}<\/p>\n

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MC Hammer was arrested in Northern California on Thursday for allegedly obstructing an officer. The rapper made the arrest known on Saturday with a series of tweets suggesting that he was a victim of racial profiling. Hammer (who was born Stanley Kirk Burrell) was reportedly sitting in a car outside a shopping center in Dublin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}