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BROOKLYN, NY (CBS4) ― Rapper Foxy Brown appeared before a crowd of reporters in New York on Monday and blasted the owner of a South Florida beauty supply store and the Pembroke Pines Police.

Brown, whose real name is Inga D. Marchand, was accompanied by an entourage of lawyers, representatives, family, and friends when she told reporters she was the victim, not the guilty party involved in a disturbance two weeks ago at the Queen Beauty Supply Store.

"For the last week, I have been vilified in the media as assaulting a store owner," said Brown. "What the media fails to forget is there are always two sides to a story and perception isn't always reality."

Brown was arrested February 15th after she allegedly squirted hair glue at a beauty store owner, swearing and spitting at him, knocking over display shelves and scuffling with a police officer.

Brown refuted the charges on Monday, claiming she went to the beauty store to use the restroom. While she was in the bathroom, Brown says the owner barged in and demanded she leave immediately and refused to shut the door so she could get dressed.

When police arrived at the scene, Brown said they did not attempt to evaluate the situation and "took her to the ground".

"The only crime I am guilty of committing is being a young black female celebrity in Broward County," said Brown. "I am the victim of an overzealous police department who engaged in police brutality and a money hungry store owner whose motives are for me to pay his mortgage on his house and his children's tuition."

At the time of the incident, Pembroke Pines police arrested Brown and charged her with battery and obstruction of justice. Despite the claims of police brutality in her statement, Brown refused to talk specifically about the accusations, but her lawyer said they would be filing charges against the police department later this week.

Officials at the Pembroke Pines Police refused to respond to her statements on Monday and said they will "allow the case to proceed through the court system."

The owner of the beauty suppy store did not comment on the advise of his attorney, but said they deny the allegations made by Brown on Monday.

Foxy Brown is no stranger to the law. In January of 1997, she received a 30-day suspended sentence and 80 hours of community service after she turned herself in on an arrest warrant for missing a court appearance for spitting on two hotel workers in Raleigh, North Carolina when they told her they didn't have an iron available.

In March 2000, Brown crashed her Range Rover in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Her injuries were minor but police arrested her for driving while her license had been suspended for not paying two parking tickets.

In July 2003, Brown was arrested in Kingston, Jamaica for an altercation with a policewoman at Norman Manley International Airport. When she missed a court appearance two days later, Jamaican authorities announced that she would be arrested if she returned to the island. Later, in August 2004, Brown allegedly attacked two manicurists in Chelsea, Manhattan during a dispute over a $20 bill that she refused to pay. She was not charged for the incident until March 7, 2005. She has denied the charges and even rejected misdemeanor plea deals on May 6 and August 9, 2005.

On October 25, 2006, Brown was sentenced to three years probation and anger management counseling; orders of protection were authorized for the manicurists.

On December 23, 2005, Brown was handcuffed in a Manhattan, New York courtroom after an exchange with a judge. Brown was in court to finalize a plea deal stemming from the August 2004 incident. Judge Melissa Jackson thought Brown was chewing gum and asked her to get rid of it. Brown responded by opening her mouth and sticking her tongue out. Judge Jackson ordered Brown cuffed to a bench for fifteen minutes, but when a female court officer attempted to handcuff her they got into a heated exchange over a bracelet the rapper was wearing. Judge Jackson alleged that Brown also struck the officer. When Brown refused to apologize, she was threatened with thirty days in jail. She gave in and apologized to the court. The confusion was that she stuck out her tongue to show that she had no gum, not to disrespect the judge.

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