Troubled singer Chris Brown has been released on $250,000 bail following his arrest in Los Angeles on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Brown had been detained after a woman alleged he pointed a gun at her in his Los Angeles home. Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, has said the allegations against his client are "demonstrably false".
The 27-year-old star emerged from the house after a stand-off with police which saw him taunt local law enforcement officers gathered outside his door.
The AFP news agency reported that Los Angeles police said that they had obtained a search warrant and had entered Brown's home early on Tuesday afternoon. People who left the house were searched by police.
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Before the search warrant was issued Brown had dared the police to enter in a series of videos he posted on Instagram to his 30.4m followers.
"When you get the warrant for whatever you need to do, you're going to walk right up in here and you're going to see nothing, you idiots," said a visibly angry Brown.
Brown with former girlfriend, Rihanna
He voiced support for the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality, saying: "You're all the worst gang in the world, the police."
Police said that its homicide and robbery division, which deals with celebrity cases, headed to Brown's home after a woman called for help at 3:11am local time (10.11am GMT) on Tuesday morning.
Baylee Curran, who was crowned Miss California Regional in a beauty pageant this year, identified herself as the caller as she also took to Instagram.
"Do you all honestly think I wanted this and I caused this?" asked Curran, who appeared to be in a moving car.
"If somebody put a gun to your head, what would you do? Call the police," she said.
She also spoke to the gossip site TMZ, alleging she and a friend went into a hot tub at Brown's house and that the singer became angry when she admired the jewellery of a member of his entourage.
R&B singer Brown, who topped the US singles chart with Run It! and Kiss Kiss, has had years of run-ins with the law.
Most notoriously, he was convicted of beating then girlfriend Rihanna before the 2009 Grammy Awards, forcing the pop singer to miss the music industry's annual gala.
In 2014, Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting a man outside a Washington hotel and earlier this year he was accused of battery by a woman in Las Vegas. Police did not bring charges, citing a lack of evidence.
Brown was accused last year of fraud in the Philippines for failing to perform a concert, also leading the singer to voice anger on Instagram while he waited to leave the country.
