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Hip-Hop Artist T.I. Refused Entry, Arrested At Gated Community Where He Lives

Hip-Hop Artist T.I. Refused Entry, Arrested At Gated Community Where He Lives

Imagine getting the police called on you and arrested while you’re trying to enter your own home. This has happened, unfortunately, to more than a few residents of color who live in high-end communities across the country. The latest victim recently was rapper/actor/millionaire T.I.

Having lost his keys and arriving home early in the morning, a security guard, who T.I. claims was asleep on the job, refused to allow T.I. entry into his upscale gated community. T.I. called friends and even his wife, who was inside the residence, to prove he lived there. But things escalated when T.I. claims his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, was disrespected by the guard. According to TMZ, things heated up when the security guard began to curse at Tiny, allegedly yelling, “Who the f–k do you think you is talking to me like this?” Later, according to the guard, things got out of hand and the guard called the police saying he felt threatened by T.I. The police arrested T.I. on charges of and simple assault, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness, even those technically he was at his own home. T.I was released on bail. The security guard refused to tell T.I. and the police his name.

“In a 10-minute phone call, the guard at Eagles Landing Country Club told a 911 dispatcher early Wednesday (May 16) that a resident kept asking for his name and knocking on the guard shack door. The security guard acknowledged during the call he didn’t recognize the resident, who was identified as Clifford Harris, better known as T.I.,” Billboard reported.

T.I. says he was “wrongfully arrested.”  In surveillance footage from the jail T.I. was escorted to obtained by TMZ, you see T.I questioning the officer about his arrest. He asked the officer, “Why was I arrested?” The officer responded, “You were acting like a fool.”

“The guard continued to refuse entry without justification,” T.I. lawyers, Steven Sadow, said in a statement, referring to T.I. as Tip. “Words were exchanged and apparently the guard and/or a supervisor called the police. When the police arrived, they were not interested in hearing Tip’s side of the story and wrongfully chose to end the situation by arresting Tip.”

Eventually, the security guard, later identified as Euwan James, let T.I. inside the neighborhood but after driving up to his home he walked back to the guard shack to ask for the guard’s name. Then is when James called the police.