Actor Shia LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor assault by the NYPD following an altercation with a man outside his ongoing, 24-hour live stream event in the Bronx, according to police.
LaBeouf grabbed the man around 12:30 Thursday morning, resulting in bruising and scratches on the man’s face, police said. NYPD officers stationed at the live stream event outside of the Museum of the Moving Image then arrested LaBeouf, a police spokesman told The Washington Post.
By 3:45 a.m. LaBeouf was released with a desk appearance ticket to appear in court in April 2017.
The live stream event, titled “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE U.S.,” was created by LaBeouf, 30, as “a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community” and began at 9 a.m. on the day that President Donald Trump was inaugurated.
It’s supposed to stream continuously for the next four years.
The live stream has already showcased one other confrontation. On Jan. 22, LaBeouf shouted another man off the camera with the chant, “He will not divide us.”
LaBeouf became known after acting in Disney Channel series “Even Stevens” and later for starring in “Transformers.” Most recently he appeared in “American Honey” and is a participant in performance art collective LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.
This is LaBeouf’s seventh arrest and jailing. His last arrest was in 2014 for drunken behavior while he attended a Broadway production of “Cabaret.”
