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Police Sue Game Over Videotaped Arrest
Friday, November 3, 2006 By: Kenny Rodriguez
Five Greensboro police officers, involved in last year’s arrest of the Game, have filed a defamation lawsuit against the rapper.
Officers Hien Nguyen, Matthew Brown, Ryan Childrey, Romaine Watkins, and David Gregory said they were libeled, slandered, and had their images misappropriated when the Game told a TV interviewer that his arrest was like the Rodney King beating.
The lawsuit also takes issue with the distribution of video footage of the arrest on a DVD, advertised online as showing the Game “being wrongfully arrested and brutalized by the police in North Carolina.”
The officers are each seeking over $10,000 in damages.
Security officers said the Game (born Jayceon Taylor) was wearing a full-face Halloween mask and cursing loudly in a public mall, and when officers arrived, Taylor refused to leave.
He was then arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Game, however, alleges he was simply signing autographs and the police began harassing him.
Other members of his entourage were sprayed with pepper spray when they surrounded the officers in a threatening manner, police said.
The entire incident was captured on videotape by a member of the group and is available on the Internet.
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