Arrest racism: Scribe

Rapper Scribe was arrested. Photo / Supplied

Police handcuffed rapper Scribe on a Wellington street yesterday morning.

The star tweeted he had just been released from police cells at 3am.

"Just got out of the cells..Pfffft F*** the police.... I got illegally arrested & released without charge..Wow I expected it from CHCH but racist police in Welli! Wow...!!!!

"I got arrested for freestyling in Cuba Mall...If it wasnt for my Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and extensive knowledge of the LAW I might still be there.."

At 11am he tweeted he had been given a warning for "Disorderly Behaviour Pffffft".

A woman, who declined to be named, said she saw Scribe and a friend sitting on a bench on Dixon St in Wellington about 12.30am.

"A cop car rolled over to where they were sitting and three cops got out and went over to them and said 'You're coming with us' and handcuffed both of them," she said.

Her friend had seen them drinking at a waterfront bar earlier.

"They were very obeying as if they knew they had done something wrong. It was as if the cops had been looking for them.

Her brother said the pair looked "pretty drunk".

"They were laughing about it," he said.