Mr Smith
28-01-2005, 12:05 AM
Lenny Kravitz: Second Career?
In 2001, Lenny Kravitz was wrongfully apprehended for a bank robbery in Miami. "It was a case of racial profiling," he recalled. "They were doing their job, but it was f---ed up. They told me the assailant's description fit mine: green pants, white T-shirt, 5 o'clock shadow and an afro. They weren't brutal. I was cuffed and thrown against the car, but I wasn't injured. They wouldn't let me go until the bank teller came and identified me. And all the time they're f---ing with me, the guy who did it is getting away. Made off with $1,500."
Kravitz later wrote about the unsettling episode in "Bank Robber Man." "That's not to say I wouldn't rob a bank," he later mischievously remarked. "And let me tell you, I would have gotten a lot more than $1,500 - believe me!"
Kravitz, Leonard Albert ["Lenny"] (1964- ) American musician [noted for such works as Let Love Rule (1989), Mama Said (1991), and Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993)]
[Sources: Blender, October/November 2001]
Tomahawk
In 2001, Lenny Kravitz was wrongfully apprehended for a bank robbery in Miami. "It was a case of racial profiling," he recalled. "They were doing their job, but it was f---ed up. They told me the assailant's description fit mine: green pants, white T-shirt, 5 o'clock shadow and an afro. They weren't brutal. I was cuffed and thrown against the car, but I wasn't injured. They wouldn't let me go until the bank teller came and identified me. And all the time they're f---ing with me, the guy who did it is getting away. Made off with $1,500."
Kravitz later wrote about the unsettling episode in "Bank Robber Man." "That's not to say I wouldn't rob a bank," he later mischievously remarked. "And let me tell you, I would have gotten a lot more than $1,500 - believe me!"
Kravitz, Leonard Albert ["Lenny"] (1964- ) American musician [noted for such works as Let Love Rule (1989), Mama Said (1991), and Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993)]
[Sources: Blender, October/November 2001]
Tomahawk