Roots' ?uestlove Harassed by DEA at Buffalo, US Airport

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During a recent trip though the Buffalo airport, Thompson was detained, degraded, hassled, and humiliated by airport security, police, and Drug Enforcement Administration officers because of a large amount of cash he had on his person and his choice of wardrobe, according to Thompson's MySpace blog post from Monday.

Thompson had purchased his plane ticket close enough to departure time that his boarding pass was flagged for an extra security check. So far, so normal.

But because he had quite a bit of cash (some foreign) on him from recent DJ gigs and because the officers said he "fit the description [of a drug dealer] with [his] knitted Rastafarian hat," he had to put up with an hour of harassment best whittled down to its essence by ?uestlove himself:

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They treated him like a dirty, hairy, foreign guy.