Lapd Officer At Oscars Reportedly Couldn T Arrest Will Smith On His Own Because He Didn T See The Slap

One LAPD officer at the Oscars reportedly couldn’t arrest Will Smith on his own because he didn’t see the slap firsthand. TMZ got a statement from the department about the incident and it’s clear this story will continue to rattle all the way down social media. A week that has seen The Academy put out a statement saying it’s still pursuing punitive action against Smith isn’t done. The King Richard star already resigned from the governing body and said he will accept any punishment. Chris Rock already said that he didn’t want to pursue charges for the slap. (Correctly indicating that doing so would have made a bad situation worse.) Oscars producers have given interviews about it, Jerrod Carmichael performed a delightful monologue on Saturday Night Live last week about how there was no real underlying “story” to this story. So, we just have the police’s update that they would have been ready if called upon.