Overview
- A New Orleans police report says LaBeouf became aggressive at the Royal Street Inn & R Bar and struck multiple people while repeatedly using homophobic slurs.
- He faces two misdemeanor counts of simple battery and was released without bond by a magistrate judge, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office.
- Video cited in the report shows him shoving one person and punching another whose nose may have been dislocated, and the report says he repeated slurs during his arrest while referencing his Catholic faith.
- Entertainer Jeffrey Damnit, identified in the report as Jeffrey Klein, has asked prosecutors to pursue a hate-crime enhancement under Louisiana law.
- Police say he was treated at a hospital before booking; later footage showed him dancing in the French Quarter with release papers, and a pretrial hearing is set for March 19.