CARDI B vs LAPD: Held “UP” & Stuck
Written by Ariel Newbold on March 27, 2024
Cardi B has a bone to pick with the LAPD
Bardi says she’s looking to take legal action against the Los Angeles police after she was strip-searched during an extended traffic stop. She hopped on Instagram Live where she told her followers the cops thought she was trafficking fentanyl and searched her car for over three hours. She also says officers suspected she had a gun in the car, and detained her while they tried to find the supposed contraband. It was clear to Cardi that officers weren’t even aware of who she was, to the point where she had to actually say to them, “I’m Cardi B. Do I look like I gotta sell some [stuff]? Like why would I do that?”
She says the officers gave her a hard time throughout the search, even making her get “butt-naked… It was some white cops and they ain’t know who I was. They was really tough on me and everything. They said somebody gave them a clue. I really feel like it was one of my opps…like they really trying to ruin my life. Like y’all don’t even [effing] know, I been going through a lot lately.”
According to TMZ, the LAPD does not have any record of this stop at all. The gossip site is calling cap on her story.
Hot Takes:
- How clueless do you have to be to not recognize one of the most famous artists out today?
- Three hours just for the cops to shrug their shoulders and come up with nothing is wild. They must have really been convinced that Cardi was riding dirty.
- Do you believe her story though? It’s hard to believe with all the effort the LAPD put into body cams and dash cams, they are unable to find any evidence of this incident… did it really happen?