KANYE IS UNDER ARREST

Kanye West was arrested a few hours ago in the UK for assaulting a photographer but – brace yourself for the shock of your life – he will not be charged and has already been released.  TMZ says…

West was arrested at a hotel in Gateshead, England early this morning after allegedly getting into a tussle with a photog on his way out of the Tup Tup nightclub in Newcastle … After a short investigation, West was released from police custody without charges.

And the update…

Just spoke with the photog — who claims Kanye did, in fact, smash his face in around 2AM London time … According to the snapper, it all went down when Kanye was leaving the club with 4 girls, upset that he was being captured on film. After getting angry, Kanye allegedly got violent — shoving the camera into the snappers face, causing a cut on his nose.

Just three weeks ago Kanye was cleared for a similar incident in LA.  In that case, Kanye did it, on tape, and you can watch him do it and he even says his name while he admits that he's doing it.  Still, prosecutors felt they didn’t have enough evidence to crack the case.  Was it some master of disguise pretending to be Kanye?  Was it a hologram of Kanye, or did the camera maybe provoke Kanye before the videotape began, perhaps with racial slurs?  The cops are presumably hot on the trail of the real culprit, so stay tuned to Tyler for all the breaking news.(these pictures of Kanye playing basketball, courtesy of Pacific Coast, have nothing to do with anything, they're not even new, they're from August, but they do show how cool and street he is.  Look at him D up on that middle aged white guy.  God he’s so hardcore I can barely even stand it.)