Kanye West arrested

Sep 11, 2008 10:30 AM by Caroline Goddard

Posted in Entertainment / Celebrity Gossip

Harder, Better, Faster, Busted

Kanye West was arrested Thursday morning at the Los Angeles International Airport on felony vandalism charges.

Kanye looses it at the airport The music mogul and his bodyguard stand accused of smashing the cameras of two separate photographers, one belonging to a still paparazzo and one of a TMZ videographer.

According to TMZ, "West rushed the photog and grabbed his camera. A struggle ensued and the still guy was screaming, "Police, help!" Erik says Kanye then took the still camera and threw it on the ground, breaking it into pieces."

West then noticed the entire incident was being videotaped -- and his bodyguard wrestled with the videographer, smashing that camera on the ground as well.

The duo then proceeded to the airline security area, where they were stopped by police. When the TMZ lensman was asked by cops if he had been able to tape the incident and responded in the affirmative, Kanye then lunged at him, yelling, "Give me the (expletive) videotape." He was then restrained by police, and he and the bodyguard both arrested.

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was the photographer a woman? after seeing him hijack the mike from that poor lady on TV, I know all about him now. One thing you can't hide is when you're crippled inside. Woodscrew

KANYE WUZ WRONG 4 DAT ANY WAYS HE'S A PUBLIC FIGURE OF COURSE HE'S GOIN TEW BE HARASSED I DNT CARE IF U AGREE WIT ME OR NOT DATS DA LIFE HE WANTED AND HE GOT IT. JUSS BECUZ HE'S FAMOUSE & HAS MONEY DNT MEAN HE CAN DO WUT EVER HE WNTS & GET AWAY WIT IT.

TMZ YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF PUCCIES SINCE YOU CALLED THE COPS ON KANYE, YOU GUYS LOVE TO HARASS CELEBRITIES AND WHEN THE TABLES ARE TURNED YOU RUN TO THE COPS AWWWWW POOR TMZ AND THEIR CAMERA LOLZZZZZZ Sh!TS FUNNY