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Blood Orange's Dev Hynes the victim of racial discrimination at Berlin airport

26 May 2014, 11:49 | Written by Luke Morgan Britton

Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, has claimed he was the subject of racial profiling at an airport in Berlin over the weekend.

Taking to Twitter to vent his frustrations over the alleged incident, Hynes says that he was stopped due to the colour of his skin. Despite holding both a E.U passport and U.S visa, Hynes was held and interrogated at length, subsequently asked to provide receipts for electronic equipment he bought a year prior.

You can read the series of tweets below, via Pitchfork:

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