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Rapper Kid Cudi almost ended up staying in Los Angeles longer than planned, when police pulled him over and cuffed him as a suspected burglar. Cudi and his entourage were on their way home from a photo shoot when they were stopped by the LAPD, having been mistakenly identified as looters by a resident of the area. The men were ordered out of the car and onto their knees and Cudi was handcuffed, though they were quickly released after officers realized the mistake. According to the blog of a writer who was with Cudi at the time, there were “10 or so armed police offers with an alarming amount of weaponry pointed in our direction as a helicopter circles overhead.” In an interview after the fact, Cudi showed no hard feelings, saying “Who knows, really, the story changed a bunch. I’m just happy to be back. I’m a free man! For that moment I was not free. I was in handcuffs. It did not feel very comfortable.”