Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf famous for his role in Transformers was arrested after an altercation at a live streamed anti-Donald Trump protest, which he was leading in Queens on Thursday morning (26 January).
A video from the live stream showed that Shia LaBeouf and a performance artist being held away by the New York Police Department (NYPD) officers from outside of a Musem of the moving image in Astoria.
The video streaming protest has been going there since last Friday, ahead of the President Trumps Inauguration with slogan “He Will Not Divide Us”.
According to police, the 30 year old actor was at the demonstration around 12:35 a.m. Thursday, when he got into an altercation with an unidentified 25 year old man. The police said that the confrontation was not necessarily a disagreement about Donal Trump.
At a point, LaBeouf pulled the man by his scarf, while scratching his face, which caused him to fall to the ground, police said. The live stream video caught part of the altercation and it appears to show the man being pulled off screen by his scarf.
Police said the man refused medical attention after the encounter.
The Video which was posted to the “He Will Not Divide Us” YouTube Channel shows LaBeouf being led away by the police.
LaBeouf was processed at the 114th precinct Thursday morning. Police said he faces misdemeanor assault and violation level harassment charges.
The actor left the precinct station house in a New York City taxi cab a few hours later as a number of people chanted "He will not divide us!"
He returned to the protest at the Museum of the Moving Image around 4 a.m.
Actor LaBeouf and 18 year old rapper Jaden Smith, son of international star ‘Will Smith’, launched the four year protest against Donald Trump on the day of Donald Trump’s Presidential Inauguration.
The protest consists of a live-streaming video camera outside the museum, where people are invited to deliver the words He will not divide us" to the camera as many times as they wish.
The feed is currently planned to stay in place either for four years or until Trump's term as president ends.
LaBeouf told to the Press that the project was not technically about opposition to President Donald Trump.
"We are anti-division out here. Everyone is invited," LaBeouf said. "I am just saying be nice to each other.”
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