26 January 2017 2:36 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Actor Shia Labeouf was arrested early Thursday after he allegedly grabbed and pushed a man outside a museum in New York where the “American Honey” star has been protesting the divisions caused by Donald Trump’s presidency.
A New York Police Department spokesman said that Labeouf grabbed at the scarf of a 25-year-old man, “causing a scratch to the man’s face,” and then pushed him, which made the man fall to the ground. Police officers were flagged down, and arrested Labeouf about 12:30 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of misdemeanor assault and harassment.
The alleged victim did not ask for medical treatment and remained on the scene, police said.
Labeouf has stationed himself outside the Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens, since Trump’s inauguration last Friday, chanting “He will not divide us” as part of a participatory public-art project that he and two partners intend to run continuously throughout Trump’s presidency. »
- Henry Chu and Elsa Keslassy
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