Killer Mike was taken away in handcuffs Sunday at Crypto.com Area in downtown Los Angeles after profitable three GRAMMYs. Hours later, the Los Angeles Police Division took to X (previously Twitter) to share extra info surrounding the incident.
“On Sunday February 4th simply after 4pm a male grownup was detained & handcuffed for a bodily altercation that occurred on the 700 block of Chick Hearn Courtroom,” the account wrote. “The suspect was positioned below arrest and was transported to LAPD Central Division.”
The division went on to determine the suspect as “48-year-old Michael Render,” including that the performer was “booked for Misdemeanor Battery 243(A) PC, and is within the means of being launched.”
Mike has not publicly commented on the arrest. Chick Hearn Courtroom is positioned immediately subsequent to the Crypto.com Area the place the GRAMMY Awards occurred on Sunday.
The incident initially garnered consideration after a video taken by a reporter from The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the rapper being escorted away by two officers from the Los Angeles Police Division. At one level within the video, somebody seems to shout “Free Mike.”
Following the ordeal, GRAMMY chief Harvey Mason Jr. was seen on the telephone whereas huddled round Killer Mike’s staff.
ET has reached out to the LAPD for remark.
The weird scenario got here not lengthy after Killer Mike received three GRAMMYs for Greatest Rap Album for MICHAEL, Greatest Rap Efficiency for “Scientists & Engineers” and Greatest Rap Tune for “Scientists & Engineers.”
Killer Mike, an activist who champions social equality and who isn’t any stranger to talking out in opposition to police brutality, received his first GRAMMY in 2003 with Outkast for “The Entire World” within the Greatest Rap Efficiency by a Duo or Group class.
It is a growing story.
The 2024 GRAMMY Awards was on Sunday, Feb. 4, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET and being broadcast and streamed reside on CBS and Paramount+ from Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles. Comply with alongside at ETonline.com for full protection from music’s greatest night time, together with performances, GRAMMY winners and extra.
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