Kanye West arrested at LAX after breaking 2 paps cameras

Kanye West has just been arrested at LAX for felony vandalism.

A still photographer was trying to take pics of Kanye at the American Airlines terminal. According to our guy on the scene, Kanye allegedly confronted the photog and smashed his camera to the ground.

Our photog then began videotaping the scene when Kanye’s assistant grabbed our camera — a struggle ensued and the assistant threw the video camera to the ground, breaking it.

When Kanye realized our camera guy had videotaped the incident, he rushed our guy and yelled, “Gimme that f**king tape!”

Both Kanye and his assistant have been arrested and will be booked.

We have the tape and we will be posting video shortly.

[From TMZ]

I always get excited to watch these celebrity videos based on whatever TMZ says about how great they are, and nine times out of ten I end up disappointed. If there’s some kind of fight or altercation it’s usually hard to see as the camera person is running or the camera gets thrown down or something. I’ll keep checking to see what footage they have though.

Before people go judging Kanye and calling him a hothead, which he may very well be, he may know this particular photographer and have a long-running beef or grudge with the guy that we don’t know about. It’s even possible the photographer made a really obnoxious comment about his deceased mom or something. I’m not saying Kanye is blameless if he and his staff member broke two cameras - there’s no excuse for that. We don’t know what happened though, and one thing you learn from watching those paparazzi videos is that they can say some super obnoxious inappropriate things to celebrities to try and get a reaction out of them. In Kanye’s case it seems to have worked.

Here’s Kanye looking like he’s in a foul mood at a screening of Fallen Shadows in NY on 9/9/08. Credit: Flashpoint / WENN

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