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Arrest
By Collins Yakubu-hammer
New York, Jan. 27, 2017 (Reuters/NAN) American Actor, Shia LaBeouf, was arrested on Thursday after a scuffle outside a New York museum where he was chanting “He will Not Divide Us” during a live-streamed protest against U.S. President Donald Trump, police said.
The “Transformers” and “American Honey” star allegedly pulled a 25-year-old man’s scarf, scratched his face and shoved him outside the Museum of the Moving Image in the borough of Queens, a police spokesman said.
The cause of the altercation was unknown, but the 30-year-old actor was chanting “He Will Not Divide Us” into a live-stream camera mounted on a wall when the incident took place.
LaBeouf and two other artists started the protest on Jan. 20, the day Trump, a Republican, was inaugurated as 45th president of the U.S.
They invited the public to repeat the words into the camera nonstop for the next four years in a “participatory performance,” according to their website.
LaBeouf was, however, released after being charged with misdemeanour assault and harassment,” the police spokesman said.
He is scheduled to appear in court on April 4.
The American actor, performance artist and filmmaker became known among younger audiences as Louis Stevens in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens, a role for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination in 2001.
The Los Angeles born actor who made his film debut in Holes (2003), based on the novel of the same name by Louis Sachar, won a Daytime Emmy Award in the same year.
In 2004, he made his directorial debut with the short film Let’s Love Hate and later directed a short film titled Maniac (2011), starring American rappers Cage and Kid Cudi.
In 2007, LaBeouf starred in the commercially successful films Disturbia and Surf’s Up.
He was cast in Michael Bay’s science fiction film Transformers as Sam Witwicky, the main protagonist of the series in the same year.
Despite mixed reviews, Transformers was a box office success and one of the highest-grossing films of 2007.
His other films include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Lawless (2012), The Company You Keep (2012), Nymphomaniac (2013) and Fury (2014).
Since 2014, LaBeouf pursued a variety of public performance art projects with LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner. (Reuters/NAN)
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Edited By Hajia Sani/Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu