Shia Labeouf was arrested in Savannah, Georgia, where he is currently filming a new movie. He claims it was due to asking 3 black men for a cigarette.
Shia LaBeouf booking photo 7/8 in Savannah, Georgia
Labeouf was in his hotel lobby at 4 a.m. when he was arrested Saturday, July 8th, 2017, by the Savannah Police Department. He was released the same night on a $7,000 bond. He is accused of public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and obstruction. CNN is reporting that LaBeouf asked a bystander and a police officer for a cigarette and became aggressive when he wasn’t given one.
Surveillance footage released Wednesday by TMZ shows LaBeouf in a Savannah police station sitting across from two police officers after being arrested.
As seen in one of the videos below, video, Labeouf tells the black officer, “You’re going to hell, straight to hell, bro.” Then he tells the officer that what he did was “savage.” When an officer asks, “Why was it savage?” LaBeouf responds, “because you’re a black man.” The actor continues to berate the officers, claiming they are racist because the black officer arrested him “for being white in a city that don’t have nothing to do with none of you.”
In the second police department surveillance footage released by, LaBeouf tells a white officer that he should be ashamed because his wife probably watches porn with “black dick.”
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LaBeouf also comments on the officer’s race in the body-cam video, telling the officer that he’s “got a president that don’t give a shit about you. And you stuck in a police force that don’t give a fuck about you, so you want to arrest white people who give a fuck? Who ask for cigarettes?”
Separate video released Tuesday shows LaBeouf yelling at officers that if he had his gun he’d “blow your shit up.”
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LaBeouf apologized for his behavior on Wednesday evening after videos of his arrest were made public. In his Twitter message, LaBeouf apologizes to the arresting officers and thanks them for their restraint.
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) July 12, 2017