Snoop Dogg: I was racially profiled by Swedish police

Snoop Dogg has accused Swedish police of racial profiling after he was stopped and briefly detained in the town of Uppsala on suspicion of possessing marijuana. He told Swedish fans he would “never be back to your country, it’s been real”.

Police pulled over the rapper’s vehicle on Saturday because he “seemed to be under the influence of narcotics. He was arrested and taken to the police station to take a urine test,” according to a police spokesman. He was released after a urine test, whose results are not yet known.

After his release, Snoop took to Instagram, where he said he was arrested because of racial profiling. “They made me pee in a cup – didn’t find shit,” he said in a video posted to the site. “No case, no nothing.”

 

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