[SIZE=7]Chris Brown accused of hitting a woman again in Los Angeles, police say[/SIZE]
Wilson Wong and Andrew Blankstein and Diana Dasrath
Tue, June 22, 2021, 1:26 PM CDT·2 min read
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Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was accused of hitting a woman during an argument in a Los Angeles home on Friday, authorities said.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told NBC News Tuesday that officers responded to a report of an argument at a residence in the 19600 block of Citrus Ridge Drive in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. The incident is being investigated as a battery and will be referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, according to the spokesperson. Few details have been released, but TMZ reported that the woman alleged that Brown smacked her in the head hard enough for her hair weave to fall out.
Brown, 32, has faced a slew of legal trouble stretching back to 2009 when he was arrested for physically assaulting singer Rihanna, his girlfriend at the time. He pleaded guilty to felony assault and completed probation in 2015. Another ex-girlfriend of Brown’s, model and actress Karrueche Tran, was granted a five-year restraining order against him in 2017.
In 2018, he was accused of presiding over a drug-fueled orgy at his Los Angeles mansion where a woman was sexually assaulted by two of his associates. And in 2019, Brown was released after being detained in Paris on aggravated rape and drug offenses.
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Before Brown assaulted Rihanna, he was one of the hottest acts in music with a string of hits on the Billboard Hot 100. While public sentiment turned on him immediately following the assault, he has maintained a fan base and continued to sell records. The repeated accusations against Brown suggest he has not reckoned with his abusive behavior. His continued success suggests neither has the public.
“Abuse is an intentional pattern of behavior intended to help one person gain and maintain power and control over another person — whether that’s a partner, a friend or family member, a stranger, or even a celebrity," said Deborah Vagins, president of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. “An abusive person is the only person responsible for their actions. It’s their decision to perpetrate abuse in the first place, and it’s their decision whether they ultimately want to change their behavior and stop the abuse. But society can hold them accountable and we can choose how we respond to them and decide whether they reflect the kind of public figure we want to support with our time, energy and money.”
Brown’s most ardent fans – dubbed “Team Breezy” – have consistently defended him and suggest he’s the target of racial profiling. Brown has occasionally used social media to defend himself. After a woman said Brown threatened her with a gun, he took to Instagram to lambaste the police, claiming “every three months y’all come up with something.” He also responded to the rape allegation on Instagram calling it “false” and against his “character and morals.”