LOS ANGELES: Rapper Wiz Khalifa was stopped and eventually pinned to the ground by customs and border protection officers at Los Angeles International airport Saturday afternoon, apparently for refusing to get off his self-balancing scooter.
Khalifa, 27, posted video of the encounter on Instagram. He was returning to LAX after performing a concert in Finland. Khalifa was surrounded by agents who wanted him to dismount the personal transportation device, which he was riding through the airport. It has a maximum speed of 12 miles per hour.
“You can’t do nothing anyway. What you gon’ do, put me in jail because I didn’t listen to what you say?,” Khalifa says in one video posted to Twitter. “You can’t do nothin’. You can talk, we can have all the conversation you want to. You can end up on TMZ. You guys can become as famous as you wanna be.”
And indeed, by 7:01 p.m. PST Saturday, TMZ published a post on the incident.
At one point while Khalifa was subdued and on the ground with his hands behind his back and at least four officers holding him down, officers continued to shout orders for Khalifa to “get on the ground” and “stop resisting.”
