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Update on Solange Knowles fiasco
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Beyonce’s sister: Miami Beach police tried to deflate my giant banana
By Perry Stein
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Note to South Beach clubgoers: When trying to party in style, please refrain from bringing along your overgrown banana as a partying companion.
Apparently word didn’t get out to the younger sister of pop superstar Beyonce, Solange Knowles, who tried to escort a five-foot inflatable banana into Club Cameo.
The buoyant banana was a party stopper – and the younger Knowles was denied entry to the Washington Avenue hotspot.
When Knowles was bounced at the door, she became hostile and started alleging racial discrimination, according to the Miami Beach Police Department.
Authorities said an off-duty police officer working at the Cameo took Knowles across the street to have a little chat on the rejection.
That’s when Knowles said an officer pulled a weapon, believed to be a knife, and threatened to deflate the banana.
Miami Beach police confirmed Monday that the incident occurred, but said race played no factor in defusing a showdown with a hostile singer and a giant banana.
The narrative that played out on Solange Knowle’s Twitter feed tells a different story.
“I have literally had my last leg with discriminating police! Miami police department will be notified,” she first tweeted. “A police officer just pulled a weapon on me.... I have done NOTHING illegal, against the law, or anything of the sort.”
In her tweets, Knowles indicated that she had the name of the officer who pulled the weapon and would be filing a formal complaint. Miami Beach police said Monday in a news release that it has launched an internal affairs investigation into the incident.
A representative for the entertainer could not be reached for comment.
Her public rant, which made no mention of the conspicuous banana, spanned nine tweets.
“I’m only tweeting this to raise awareness. I could have left quietly, but I am sick & tired of this scenario being played over & over again,” she wrote. “It is time to do something about it. I am a mother raising a young black child in America. Im going to die trying!”
Police said they did not take the banana into custody, and it is still unclear why Knowles was club-hopping with the fake fruit.
Because Knowles identified the police department in question as the Miami Police Department, many first believed that the allegations were against the city of Miami, not Miami Beach.
Cmdr. Delrish Moss, spokesman for the Miami Police Department, said his department investigated the allegations after first hearing of the tweets.
“Over the weekend, the lion’s share of the mainstream and entertainment media reported that the Miami Police Department had a confrontation with Solange Knowles, the sister of Beyonce Knowles of record and movie fame. We have investigated and found that this incident DID NOT occur in our city,” Moss said in a written statement.
Knowles is known for her singing and dancing career and appearances in films such as Johnson Family Vacation. On Sunday night, she did also tweeted about her big sister’s surprise pregnancy announcement at MTV’s Video Music Awards show.
“One. And. Only. I could not possibly be more proud. Tears in my eyes,” she tweeted.
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