By: Alexander Fruchter
Published: Nov. 9, 2007 - New York, NY

Trey Songz has responded to reports of his recent arrest outside of a club in Massachusetts. Trey was arrested on charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following his performance at the Hippodrome November 3rd. After his concert, a shooting took place in the club's parking lot. Trey was not connected to the shooting, but was arrested along with two members of his entourage.

Trey has released a statement explaining the incident, he is also contemplating filing a suit against the arresting officers.

"My homie goes to get one of the police officers to escort us out of there and [someone in the parking lot] started bussin' [firing a gun]," Songz said in the statement.

"So we started ducking in the car. So my homie runs back to the car and gets in like, 'They bussin'!' By the time we look up, we see the police [had] apprehended somebody, so we said, 'We ain't finnin' to wait.' We got out the car and proceeded to walk, 'cause the hotel is only a block away. The police stopped us and were like, 'Hold up, hold up.' "

Songz says the police shut down the parking, and would not let visitors leave without being searched. According to Songz, he and his entourage were attempting to work with police, but clashed with them instead.

He stated, "They go to my road manager Bobby and they wanna check him. Bobby tells them he had like $6,000 in show money - because if they started feeling on that, they might think something. So he tells the cops he's got the money in his pocket and the cops break bad with him. They grabbed the road manger by the neck, and I'm standing right beside him. So my bodyguard steps out and pushes me out the way because that's [his] second nature. They think because he steps up, he wants to stop something."

He continued retelling the incident by saying that police took down his bodyguard through excessive force. "It was seven on him, beating his a**. He caught it in the back of the head with a nightstick. His face was swollen. His arm was out of place."

Songz also alleged that the officers made jokes and other crude remarks regarding their actions and the race of Trey and his entourage. Trey also claims to have been roughed up by the cops. He continued, "The officers were joking about hitting [us]. I was like, 'Man, y'all stomped my n---a's face in.' That's when they tackled me. It was like four officers on me. One officer had his knee in my throat. They was kicking me in the ribs. Talking to people in that community, they say that thing happens all the time."

The Springfield police have also responded to Trey's claims. Chief of Staff, Jennifer Flagg said that the officers acted appropriately, and the diverse police presence acted without racial malice. She said that Trey was "verbally and physically combative after attempting to cross the police line....I would ask him why the other hundreds of African-Americans [who attended the show] were not harassed either."

Trey Songz will continue his tour, which will soon be heading to Europe. He is considering legal action against the police department, but is focusing first on having the charges against him dropped.