American singer and songwriter Ari Lennox revealed in 2021 that she was arrested after accusing a woman of racially profiling her in an Amsterdam airport.
According to Robert van Kapel, a spokesperson for the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, a national police force, Lennox was arrested after allegedly displaying “aggressive” behaviour towards an airline official and being drunk in public.
“Our unit discovered a woman full of emotions who refused to calm down,” van Kapel told the newspaper. “That’s why she had to be taken into custody.”
According to local police, Lennox appeared to be inebriated and was involved in a dispute with both an airline employee and a security officer.
After the incident, she told her followers on Twitter that she was arrested “for reacting to a woman racially profiling me.” In another message, she wrote, “F— Amsterdam security. They hate black people.”
“I just want to go home,” she added in another tweet. “I’ll never leave my house again.”