February 27, 2007 @ 10:40 am

Foxy Brown Speaks on Fla. Incident

Julianne Shepherd

Foxy Brown claims brutality in Feb 15. Florida arrest.

Foxy Brown addressed media yesterday at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, on a Feb. 15 incident in Florida which lead to her arrest. Speaking to a crowd of reporters and community leaders, Brown said she was dragged half-naked from the restroom and attacked by the arresting officers because she is black. "I was exposed from the waist down on the toilet," she said. "The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman." Brown was arrested at a beauty shop in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on Feb. 15, after allegedly throwing nail glue at the store owner, who the called police. The official report states she was engaged in a minor altercation with an officer in the parking lot, and that she wished to file a complaint against the arresting police. Brown was charged with resisting an officer and simple battery. Supported by her pastor, Rev. Clinton Miller; her lawyer, Senator John Sampson; and community leaders Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Sen. Marc Adams; Brown gave her version of the incident. She said she was using the restroom when the store owner refused to let her finish, and pulled her from the toilet. Brown was previously ordered three years' probation and anger management classes for scuffling with manicurists last August in New York. Last month, she received an "excellent" probation report after appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court. Brown said she intends to press charges against the Pembroke Pines Police Department. She is scheduled to appear in front of a Manhattan judge again this week.

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