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Showing Original Post only (View all)Busted for possession of iced tea.... [View all]

When rapper Christopher "Xstrav" Beatty waited for his friend Money Mal outside of a Fayetteville, North Carolina liquor store on April 29, he thought he'd enjoy a refreshing AriZona Iced Tea. He and Tito Brown waited at their car in the store parking lot, and Brown filmed them hanging out. Beatty's iced tea was half pink lemonade, half sweet tea, and contained no alcohol whatsoever. But the mere sight of Beatty drinking out of the can was apparently enough to motivate an undercover cop to ask questions.
Beatty was approached by the cop, who was not in uniform and did not show any identification. The cop demanded that Beatty hand over his drink, and when the rapper expressed hesitation at handing his tea to a man in plainclothes with no I.D. and no probable cause, the cop turned hostile. He ordered Beatty to leave the premises and then seemingly changed his mind, forcing him onto the ground, where he handcuffed him and forced him to lay while awaiting arrest.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/39293/north-carolina-rapper-busted-for-possession-of-an-arizona-iced-tea
Beatty was approached by the cop, who was not in uniform and did not show any identification. The cop demanded that Beatty hand over his drink, and when the rapper expressed hesitation at handing his tea to a man in plainclothes with no I.D. and no probable cause, the cop turned hostile. He ordered Beatty to leave the premises and then seemingly changed his mind, forcing him onto the ground, where he handcuffed him and forced him to lay while awaiting arrest.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/39293/north-carolina-rapper-busted-for-possession-of-an-arizona-iced-tea
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Add drinking "Drinking Tea While Black" to the list of offenses that we have to worry about now nt
MrScorpio
May 2013
#7
It was probably more than 16 oz's, too much sugar for adults to choose to have
The Straight Story
May 2013
#10