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A video on Khalifa's Instagram site shows three U.S. Customs
and Border Protection officers pinning Khalifa to the floor on
Saturday and telling him to quit resisting.
"I am not resisting, sir," Khalifa, 27, says in the video.
In a separate video on his Twitter site, Khalifa is shown
standing handcuffed with the officers.
"I didn't do nothing," Khalifa tells them. "What you want to do?
Put me in jail because I didn't listen to what you say?"
Jaime Ruiz, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman, said
Khalifa was handcuffed but not arrested. Ruiz said travelers are
treated with respect by officers, but that they must follow
orders for their own safety and those of others. Khalifa failed
to do so, he said.
Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a
prominent rap artist with numerous hit songs including "See You
Again," which was No. 1 for more than two months this year on
the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Khalifa said on Twitter he was returning to the United States
from a trip to France and Finland.
On Twitter, Khalifa said he came from a generation that rode
hoverboards, which resemble skateboards as they hover above the
ground.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy in Kansas City; Editing by Nick
Zieminski)
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