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Azealia Banks Allegedly Bit Security Guard's Breast At Meatpacking District Club
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Dec 17, 2015
Modified Dec 17, 2015
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Rapper Azealia Banks was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with assault after she allegedly bit a security guard's breast outside a club in the Meatpacking District.
A police spokesperson says Banks was being escorted out of Up & Down on West 14th Street at around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday when she became verbally abusive toward the female security guard. She then allegedly bit the guard on her breast, causing swelling and redness.
Page Six reports that Banks was attempting to get into a private downstairs birthday party for club co-owner Ronnie Madra when two security guards who didn't recognize her told her she had to get a stamp upstairs in order to be let in. Banks then began “screaming at the top of her lungs, cursing," and slinging racial slurs at them, according to the paper. When another club owner let her in, Banks continued to curse at the guards, "explaining who she was, that she’s on Rihanna’s album."
Banks then allegedly "spit in the [female bouncer’s] face" and bit her on the boob as she was escorted out of the club. She also allegedly punched the bouncer. Police say Banks was arrested and charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and harassment. Now watch her video!
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