Early Tuesday morning, Wyclef Jean was arrested by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in a case of mistaken identity.
The police officers pulled over Wyclef’s car and promptly arrested him.
Someone was filming the situation and Wyclef Jean posted it on his Instagram and in the video, you see Jean in handcuffs saying, “LA, right now, coming from the studio. Y’all see the police have handcuffs on me. They just took off my Haitian bandana. That’s what’s going on with Wyclef in LA right now. The L.A.P.D. have me in handcuffs for absolutely nothing.”
But Wyclef Jean incorrectly identified the police officers as LAPD when they were in fact from the sheriff’s department.
After Wyclef publicly blasted the LAPD on Twitter and Instagram, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a public apology to Wyclef Jean on behalf of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
This morning @wyclef erroneously tweeted that he had been detained by the #LAPD. We can confirm that we WERE NOT involved in that incident
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) March 21, 2017
