Meek Mill’s Halloween took an unexpected turn early Saturday morning when the rapper was briefly detained by New York City police officers outside a Manhattan nightclub.
Footage circulating online shows the 37-year-old artist standing with his hands behind his back as a crowd gathered, questioning the officers’ actions.
Officers responded to a report of a man with a firearm around 4 a.m. and stopped a vehicle matching the given description and license plate, per TMZ.
No weapon was recovered, and all three occupants — including Meek — were released without arrest.
Daily Mail has not received a response to its request for comment from reps for Mill.
The rapper later addressed the incident on X.
Meek Mill ’s Halloween took an unexpected turn early Saturday morning when the rapper was briefly detained by New York City police officers outside a Manhattan nightclub; (pictured February)
Footage circulating online shows the 37-year-old artist standing with his hands behind his back as a crowd gathered, questioning the officers’ actions
‘They just pulled me out the car and cuffed me in front of the whole club embarrassed the sh** out of me in nyc ! I’m not scared to go outside without a gun … they had guns in my face for no reason smh I thought it was a prank,’ he wrote.
While the video of the incident doesn’t capture the full exchange, Meek later added on X, ‘They tryna get me ……..’
Back in 2023, Mill became emotional talking about his personal experience on probation while at the Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signing of a new probation reform bill.
The bill instructs judges that minor technical violations should not be a reason to send someone on probation back to jail – which resonates with the Philadelphia born rapper.
Mill spent years on probation following his 2008 conviction of drug and weapons charges, and said he spent years risking going back to jail to due technical violations.
‘Every time I crossed the Ben Franklin to go pick my mom up to take my son to school in New Jersey, I was actually committing a crime the whole time from technical violations,’ said Mill at the time.
‘I thought that it was either I go to jail and I take my son to school and I ended up taking my son to school so I want to thank you guys here today. I don’t want to get emotional because it’s a lot.’
After wiping away his tears Mill added, ‘We all grew up in the streets and we tried to be better, but they labeled us as felons and sent us back to jail. I had to fight against that the whole time to gain my respect and be who I am today and I’m proud of that.’
No weapon was recovered, and all three occupants — including Meek — were released without arrest
The rapper later addressed the incident on X
In 2008, Mill was convicted of possession of drug paraphernalia and second-degree possession of a loaded firearm by a convicted felon.
He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months in prison and eight years probation by a Philadelphia County Superior Court. He was released after seven months in early 2009 under a five-year probation agreement.
In 2012, he was arrested for suspected marijuana used and violated his parole for traveling for concerts in the same year, according to Rolling Stone.
Mill claimed his 2012 arrest caused him to miss out tens of thousands of dollars from performing and he lost out on money from endorsement deals, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer.
He was again sentenced to prison time in 2017 for violating his parole after he was arrested in New York for reckless endangerment when he was recorded popping wheelies on a dirt bike without a helmet. He served five months at a different at a Pennsylvania State Correction Institution.
In January 2023, Mill was pardoned from the 2008 charges by outgoing Governor Tom Wolf, reported the Associated Press.
Mill posted on X after the signing: ‘I don’t know how I cried on the news I ain’t even cry in my cell! I needed that!’
