{"id":19789,"date":"2013-02-25T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19789"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:17:50","slug":"mc-hammer-arrested-for-obstruction-claims-racial-profiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19789","title":{"rendered":"MC Hammer Arrested For Obstruction, Claims Racial Profiling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MC Hammer<\/strong> was arrested in Dublin, Calif. Thursday for obstruction, and claims to have been racially profiled. In a series of tweets, the legendary rapper blasted reports that he resisted police.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hammer<\/strong>, born <strong>Stanley Burrell<\/strong>, is accused of driving a vehicle with expired tags, and was not the registered owner. The situation took place at the Hacienda Crossings shopping center. &#8220;After asking <strong>Hammer<\/strong> who the registered owner was he became very argumentative and refused to answer the officer&#8217;s questions,&#8221; police spokesman <strong>Herb Walters<\/strong>, told CNN in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old was booked and released from the Santa Rita Jail, and used Twitter to tell his side of the story. &#8220;Sometimes in life you choose to &#8216;Fight&#8217; and other times the &#8216;Fight&#8217; chooses you,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Dignity is not a crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calling the officer a &#8220;chubby looking dude,&#8221; according to his recount, the cop immediately asked him if he was &#8220;on parole or probation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MC Hammer was arrested in Dublin, Calif. Thursday for obstruction, and claims to have been racially profiled. In a series of tweets, the legendary rapper blasted reports that he resisted police. Hammer, born Stanley Burrell, is accused of driving a vehicle with expired tags, and was not the registered owner. The situation took place at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}