Solange Knowles was minding her business and enjoying Miami this weekend when things took a frightening turn. Prior to heading into a night club in Miami Beach Solo tweeted, "A police officer just pulled a weapon on me.... I have done NOTHING illegal, against the law, or anything of the sort." After much speculation about what could have triggered such a violent reaction from the cops, the singer explains the entire ordeal with E! News.
"Never once during the incident did I even raise my voice," Knowles tells E!. "I feel very strongly about standing up for myself when something is wrong, and am very disappointed in the way that the Miami [Beach] Police Department has handled this case."
Given the "sequence of false statements" made by police in the matter, "it is necessary to shed some clarity and tell her side of the story," Knowles' rep tells E! News.
She says that Knowles and two friends went to a club, where she somehow obtained a large balloon that they planned to give to a pal's kid the next day.
They cabbed it to another night spot, where the bouncer informed them that they couldn't take the balloon inside.
"They decided to go across the street to deflate the balloon, where they encountered two police officers who had casual, light-hearted conversation with them," Knowles' rep states.
"One officer pulled out a switchblade and threatened to pop the balloon. They felt it was inappropriate, but the turning point happened when he then took out the switchblade a second time with the blade open and said to them, 'I don't find the humor in this, anymore.' The blade was less than a couple feet away from Solange and her friends." READ MORE ON THIS INCIDENT AT E!ONLINE.
