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Police respond to Tyrese Gibson’s troubling kidnapping video

It was thankfully just a joke.

 

Tess Cagle

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Posted on Nov 20, 2017   Updated on May 22, 2021, 10:35 am CDT

Tyrese Gibson fooled everyone Monday morning—including the Los Angeles Police Department—when he posted a disturbing video of a man bound and gagged on his couch at 3am.

In the video, comedian Michael Blackson looks like he’s been taken hostage by Gibson, who can also be spotted eating a bowl of Ramen.

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Viewers speculated that Gibson had lost it and kidnapped Blackson in retaliation for a video he posted a few weeks ago, which mocked a meltdown Gibson had and said he was “no longer considered Black.”

https://twitter.com/ThabongNkosi/status/932654769319088129

Gibson’s video looked troubling enough that LAPD showed up at his home Monday morning, where they were informed the video was just a “joke,” according to TMZ.

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*First Published: Nov 20, 2017, 11:43 am CST