Rapper faces criminal charges for tweet

LA RAPPER Game is in trouble with the police for starting a virtual flash mob that took down a police station's emergency phone system.

Game, who used to be known as The Game when he was a member of 50 Cent's G Unit, released the phone number for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department on Saturday and asked his 600,000 followers to use it, allegedly.

Since the tweet and the emergency phone line shut down, Game has used his account to explain that the message was either a mistake or the work of a hacker.

"Yall can track a tweet down but cant solve murders ! Dat was an accident but maybe now yall can actually do yall job !!!! #iSpeak4ThePeople," reads one message, while others suggests that it was another Twitter user called Wackstar that sent the incendiary tweet.

"@wackstar hacked my Twitter earlier..... Arrest him police... He is to blame," says one, and another, "@wackstar you betta sleep wit jeans on tonite homie..... Sheriffs come knockin' don't be in ya pajamas. #NotAGoodLook."

According to a report on the MSNBC web site these rebuttals came after captain Mike Parker asked the Game to take down the station's telephone number. Something that he has done.

The rapper could still get in trouble for the tweet, however, and Parker added that interfering with emergency services came at a cost to many. "Public safety was absolutely compromised," he said in an interview with the Associated Press.

"Under the LA county sheriffs we've reduce homicides in Compton by over 50 percent in recent years and crime is down in Compton, but it's particularly helpful when the public can contact us," Parker said Saturday in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "This incident was the social media equivalent of going into a crowded movie theater and shouting 'Fire!'"

Game faces criminal charges. µ