Rapper Wiz Khalifa addresses El Paso arrest in video; says he took selfie after duping officer

Rapper Wiz Khalifa discussed his El Paso arrest on a marijuana possession charge in a video posted on YouTube.

Khalifa, interviewed at SoundSet Music Festival Sunday in Minnesota, was asked if the officers and guards were cool with him taking the selfie in the El Paso International Airport holding cell.

“Nah, he was pissed,” Khalifa says in the video. “Shout out to Officer (name edited out in video). I shouldn’t even said his name neither cause he don’t want no one to know who he is. I just double (screwed) you now. I was like, ‘yo, can I get that phone, man? I really need to call my wife. I gotta tell her what happened.’ And then he gave me the phone and I was like ‘selfie!’

Watch the full interview at http://youtu.be/FhY_V_7fAII

“Mr. (Cameron) Thomaz was placed under arrest after he was found to have a small amount of marijuana as he passed through a TSA Checkpoint at the airport. While in custody he asked to use his phone to call a relative. The handling officer allowed Mr. Thomaz to make that call and during that time he used that opportunity to take the pictures. To be clear, given the circumstances of this case it would not be uncommon to honor such a request,” El Paso Police said in a statement to ABC-7.

Khalifa performed at El Paso’s Neon Desert Music Festival Saturday night and was arrested early Sunday morning at the El Paso airport for being in possession of 0.5 grams of marijuana.

The rapper’s new project is titled “28 Grams” was released after his arrest.