KANYE CHARGED IN AIRPORT INCIDENT: Prosecutors hit rapper with battery, theft and vandalism counts

*Six months after Kanye West's infamous run-in with photogs at Los Angeles International Airport, prosecutors have filed three misdemeanor charges against the rapper for his role in the incident.

West faces battery, grand theft and vandalism charges over the videotaped destruction of a photographer's camera.

West faces two and a half years in jail if convicted.

West was arrested at LAX several days after performing at the MTV Video Music Awards in September.

TMZ.com shot video that showed West breaking the flash of a photographer's camera inside a terminal, and his manager breaking the camera itself and accosting TMZ's videographer: