The Game has rejected a plea deal in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of impersonating a police officer earlier today (June 13).

According to Game’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, the rapper’s case would have been dismissed if he pled guilty, and he’d be given credit for the few hours he spent being booked.

“Why should he plead guilty to bogus charges for a non-jail sentence if he’s innocent,” Lichtman shared outside the courtroom. “And he is innocent. It’s rare that I have a 100 percent innocent defendant, but this is one.”

Game was arrested for allegedly impersonating an undercover police officer in New York back on November 16. According to New York’s WNBC-TV, around 10:30 p.m. Game (born Jayceon Taylor) waived down a Lincoln Town Car at 56th Street and 7th Avenue. Muhammed Butt, the driver of the taxi, said that Game claimed to be an undercover cop and told him to race through several traffic lights on Lexington Avenue, police said. Cops pulled Butt over after he drove 13 blocks.

Lichtman thinks the police reached a “new low” with Game’s arrest and maintains his client is being harassed. “This case will end in a dismissal or an acquittal,” Litchtman charged. Game is due back in court on September 20.

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The Game pleaded not guilty Thursday to punching and threatening to shoot a man during a pickup basketball game in South Los Angeles.The 27-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, entered the pleas in Superior Court. He is charged with three felony counts of making a criminal threat, possessing a firearm in a school zone and exhibiting a firearm in the presence of an officer.

Taylor, who remained free on $50,000 bail, faces more than five years in state prison if convicted.

Prosecutors contend that during a Feb. 24 pickup basketball game, Taylor punched an opposing player, then pulled a gun from his red Cadillac Escalade and threatened to shoot him.

His attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

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Criminal charges were officially filed against The Game today (June 4) in connection with a February altercation during a game of basketball in Los Angeles.Prosecutors claim that The Game, born Jayceon Taylor, was involved in an altercation in which he allegedly punched a player on the opposing team and then pulled a gun out of his red Cadillac Escalade and threatened to shoot the unnamed victim.

The incident took place Feb. 24 at the Rita Walters Educational Learning Complex.

In May, Los Angeles Police Department officers searched his suburban Glendale, California home seeking evidence in connection with the altercation.

The Game was previously arrested in connection with the incident and released on $50,000 bail.

Today he was charged with making a felony count of making a criminal threat, felony possession of a firearm in a school zone and a felony count of exhibiting a firearm in the presence of an officer.

The rapper will be arraigned on Tuesday (June 5) and faces up to five years in prison.

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