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Shia LaBeouf Pleads Guilty to Battery Charges Over Mardi Gras Bar Fight

Shia LaBeouf Pleads Guilty to Battery Charges Over Mardi Gras Bar Fight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to charges relating to an altercation during an extended Mardi Gras bar crawl that erupted into violence. During an arraignment on Wednesday, magistrate Judge Juana Lombard issued LaBeouf a six-month suspended sentence with two years’ probation. He must also receive rehabilitation for alcohol abuse, sensitivity training and anger management classes. The actor was charged with three counts of battery for fighting two men involved in ejecting him from a bar, where he was allegedly causing a disturbance and displaying violent aggression. One of the alleged victims later characterized the confrontation as a hate crime because he was called a homophobic slur, though the court declined to add additional charges. In a statement, Sarah Chervinksy, a lawyer for LaBeouf, said the incident was “nothing more than a minor Mardi Gras bar tussle.” “There is no evidence it was about bias or prejudice, which is why the state only charged these low-level misdemeanors,” she added. “Mr. LaBeouf came to court today wanting to take accountability for his part in what happened, and …

Actor Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to simple battery after throwing punches during Mardi Gras festival | US News

Actor Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to simple battery after throwing punches during Mardi Gras festival | US News

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Actor Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery for punching people outside a New Orleans bar in February during the Mardi Gras festival. Sentencing details were not immediately available in online court records. A lawyer and a manager for LaBeouf did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Associated Press. Footage of the 17 February encounter shows a shirtless LaBeouf, 39, shoving a person to the ground and hitting someone else in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate”, according to a New Orleans police report. Read more from Sky News:Man shot dead after taking 10 hostage in CaliforniaUniversal theme park gets £1.3bn taxpayer support Jeffrey Damnit, a well-known local entertainer who police identified as Jeffrey Klein in the incident report, said he was one of the people assaulted by the Transformers star. “He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit said earlier this year. LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others …

Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to three charges after Mardi Gras bar fight

Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to three charges after Mardi Gras bar fight

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Actor Shia LaBeouf has pleaded guilty to three counts of simple battery for punching people outside a New Orleans bar in February during Mardi Gras. Video of the February 17 encounter showed a shirtless LaBeouf shoving one person to the ground and hitting another person in the face, “causing his nose to possibly dislocate,” a New Orleans police report said. Jeffrey Damnit, a well-known local entertainer who police named as Jeffrey Klein in the incident report, said he was one of the people attacked by LaBeouf. “He hit me, he connected a few times with punches, he pushed me a few times,” Damnit said earlier this year. LaBeouf “just got nuts” trying to start fights and telling the entertainer and others that he would beat them up, Damnit said. LaBeouf has had several run-ins with the law during his career, including …

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Shia LaBeouf formally charged after Mardi Gras bust-up

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Shia LaBeouf formally charged after Mardi Gras bust-up

Published by Sam Flores

The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office charged LaBeouf with three counts of simple battery, according to court records filed in New Orleans on Thursday, and obtained by New Orleans news station WWL. All three of the misdemeanour counts stem from LaBeouf’s alleged altercation with several people on Mardi Gras on 17 February. LaBeouf was first arrested after the alleged confrontation and was initially charged with two counts of simple battery, TMZ reported at that time. The Transformers alum was then arrested again and charged with an additional count of simple battery. Source link

Lab-grown foie gras and chicken get safety checks for British dinner tables | Science, Climate & Tech News

Lab-grown foie gras and chicken get safety checks for British dinner tables | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Lab-grown foie gras and chicken are being tested by scientists to ensure they are safe for humans to eat, and could hit British restaurants and dinner tables in the next five years. It is the closest any such “cultivated meat” product has yet come to approval for human consumption in the UK, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said today as it published an update on “innovative” foods. Other products like edible insects, 3D-printed chocolate, vegetables with extra vitamins and cheese that is “brewed” in a lab could also reach the public in roughly the next 15 years, the regulator said. “The science enabling these innovations is exciting and our food system is changing at a rapid pace,” Dr Thomas Vincent, deputy director of innovation at the FSA, told Sky News. Last year the agency was awarded £1.6m by the government to develop a new system to ensure these novel foods are safe to eat. It followed complaints by the industry that Britain’s approval process was too slow to keep up with rapid innovation. Dr Vincent …

Shia LaBeouf ordered to pay 0,000 bail and attend rehab after alleged Mardi Gras bar fight

Shia LaBeouf ordered to pay $100,000 bail and attend rehab after alleged Mardi Gras bar fight

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Shia LaBeouf appeared in court Thursday, where a judge set his bail at $100,000 and ordered him to seek treatment following his arrest earlier this month for allegedly attacking two New Orleans bartenders. The new terms of his bail, handed down by New Orleans Criminal District Court judge Simone Levine, came days after the actor, 39, was charged with two counts of simple battery and released from jail on his own recognizance. After his release, one of the alleged victims, Jeffrey Damnit, asked prosecutors to upgrade LaBeouf’s charges, accusing the Holes star of lobbing homophobic slurs at him. During Thursday’s hearing, Levine noted that the additional accusations have since been entered into court record, according to The Guardian. She relayed her biggest concern was the possible danger LaBeouf poses not only to his alleged victims, but to the wider community as …

Shia LaBeouf accused of hate crime in Mardi Gras brawl

Shia LaBeouf accused of hate crime in Mardi Gras brawl

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter One of the alleged victims of Shia LaBeouf’s Mardi Gras meltdown has accused the actor of targeting him in a hate crime. Jeffrey Damnit, who was born Jeffrey Klein, is asking prosecutors to upgrade charges against LaBeouf, 39, who currently faces two counts of simple battery after he was arrested for allegedly attacking two bartenders just after midnight Tuesday in New Orleans. Hours before video was taken of the Transformers star fighting and being restrained on city streets, Damnit said he ran into the actor around 5 p.m. Monday, when LaBeouf allegedly knocked him over. He recalled to The Hollywood Reporter, “Then he turned around screaming, ‘Don’t you f***ing push me. I’ll kill you.’ I hadn’t touched him.” Damnit said he tried to deescalate the situation, but LaBeouf allegedly then shoved a finger in his face and called him a homophobic …

Man Involved in Shia LaBeouf’s Mardi Gras Arrest Skirmish Alleges Hate Crime

Man Involved in Shia LaBeouf’s Mardi Gras Arrest Skirmish Alleges Hate Crime

Published by Daniella Wilson

Shia LaBeouf’s arrest in New Orleans in the early hours of Tuesday, as the city’s Mardi Gras celebrations were underway, is facing fresh scrutiny, as an alleged victim of the actor’s rampage that night says he was targeted in the confrontation, which he is characterizing as an alleged hate crime. The altercation that took place 15 minutes after midnight at R Bar in the city’s Faubourg Marigny neighborhood — video of which circulated widely online, showing the latter of a belligerent LaBeouf’s Jekyll and Hyde display as he was restrained outside the bar — left two bartenders injured and the actor facing two counts of simple assault; he was quickly released by early afternoon Tuesday on his own recognizance. He is due back in court on March 19.  Jeffrey “Dammit,” a longtime local fixture and master of ceremonies at various New Orleans events, is also a Screen Actors Guild member who now resides and works in Hollywood most of the year. He told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that he makes multiple trips back to …

New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras, the indulgent conclusion of Carnival season

New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras, the indulgent conclusion of Carnival season

Published by Sam Flores

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — People leaned out of wrought iron balconies, hollering the iconic phrase “Throw me something, Mister” as a massive Mardi Gras parade rolled down New Orleans’ historic St. Charles Avenue on Tuesday. Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, marks the climax and end of the weekslong Carnival season and a final chance for indulgence, feasting and revelry before the Christian Lent period of sacrifice and reflection. The joyous goodbye to Carnival always falls the day before Ash Wednesday. In Louisiana’s most populous city, which is world-famous for its Mardi Gras bash, people donned green, gold and purple outfits, with some opting for an abundance of sequins and others showing off homemade costumes. The revelers began lining the streets as the sun rose. They set up chairs, coolers, grills and ladders — offering a higher vantage point. As marching bands and floats filled with women wearing massive feathered headdresses passed by, the music echoing through the city streets, people danced and cheered. Others sipped drinks, with many opting for adult concoctions …