00:00Shia LaBeouf was arrested shortly after Midnight Tuesday in New Orleans during Mardi Gras,
00:04after he allegedly fought with two men who told police he assaulted them.
00:09According to the New Orleans Police Department, LaBeouf was allegedly causing a disturbance and
00:14becoming increasingly aggressive at a business, which TMZ reported was a bar on Royal Street.
00:20A staff member attempted to eject LaBeouf from the establishment,
00:23but after he was removed from the building, LaBeouf allegedly hit one man several times.
00:27According to the police report, he then left but came back allegedly acting more aggressively.
00:33After multiple people attempted to hold him down, LaBeouf was let up, quote,
00:37in hopes that he would leave, but he then allegedly resumed hitting the same man who he allegedly
00:41punched earlier. He then allegedly punched another person in the nose and was held down until the
00:46police arrived. LaBeouf was taken to a hospital for unknown injuries and then arrested and charged
00:51with two counts of simple battery. The arrest comes after LaBeouf, who recently claimed to be
00:56sober and blamed past abusive behavior on alcoholism, went on an extended weekend bar crawl during
01:01Mardi Gras in New Orleans' uptown neighborhood, according to employees of various drinking
01:06establishments. A bartender who waited on him last Thursday said, quote, he is terrorizing the city.
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