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A man was arrested atChris Rock’s comedy show in Boston on Wednesday after causing a disruption and attempting to assault a police officer, according to police.
The Boston Police Department (BPD) confirmed to PEOPLE that two patrons watching Rock, 57, perform at the Wilbur Theater were causing “a loud disturbance” over the venue’s mask requirements at around 8:30 p.m., but only one was arrested.
A police officer who had been “monitoring the crowd” at Rock’s show investigated the disturbance, the BPD said, and found that the staff of the theater had been “attempting to remove two patrons from the show” after they “refused to follow the venue’s masking requirement for the show.”
While “one of the patrons was compliant with the request,” the second “became increasingly agitated, yelling loudly, disrupting the show, and physically assaultive towards the officer and theater staff,” according to authorities.
Once Herd was removed from the venue, the police officer pepper sprayed him “as Herd continued to try to assault the Officer,” the BPD said.
Herd was then taken into custody “without further incident,” per the BPD. He is charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct, assault and battery on a police officer resisting arrest, and assault and battery. Herd will be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court.
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Rock performed two shows at the Wilbur Theater on Wednesday (one at 7:30 p.m. and a late night show at 10 p.m.), as part of his Ego Death World Tour.
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“I’m still kind of processing what happened,” he said at his first show, telling the crowd he would probably talk about the incident later in a serious manner.
During his second show Wednesday, Rock said he didn’t want to “talk about that sh–,” and said the real disappointment of his week was when his daughter did not get accepted to the University of Southern California.
“I haven’t talked to anyone, despite what you heard,” Rock said.
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Smith, 53, first apologized about the incident at Sunday’s Oscars, expressing his sorrow to the Academy and his fellow nominees ina tear-filled speechwhile accepting his Best Actor trophy.
He did not mention Rock at the time, butapologized to theSaturday Night Livevetfor the first time in an Instagram post on Monday. “I would like to publicly apologize to you, Chris. I was out of line and I was wrong. I am embarrassed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be,” he said. “There is no place for violence in a world of love and kindness.”
Rockdeclined to press chargesagainst Smith.
The Academy has spoken out about the incident, apologizing to Rock and condemning Smith’s actions. They’veofficially started a formal reviewaround Smith, and said on Wednesday that Smith wasactually asked to leaveafter the incident but “refused.”
“Things unfolded in a way we could not have anticipated,” read a statement issued to PEOPLE. “While we would like to clarify that Mr. Smith was asked to leave the ceremony and refused, we also recognize we could have handled the situation differently.”
source: people.com
