Singer Chris Brown has been released from jail on $250,000 bail following his arrest Tuesday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, according to booking records.
Los Angeles police spokesman Tony Im said a woman called 911 Tuesday morning from outside Brown’s Southern California residence, saying she needed help; after an hours-long standoff with police, Brown was arrested without incident. He was released shortly after 11 p.m.
Hours later, Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos wrote on Twitter that Brown was out of jail and that “the allegations against him are demonstrably false.”
“We are cooperating,” Geragos said on HLN about the investigation. “There is no truth to it and we’re going to let it play out.”
A woman had called 911 to report that Brown had threatened her with a gun and that she had run outside to call police, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times. TMZ first reported the alleged threat.
Police positioned themselves outside Brown’s home on Tuesday, awaiting a judge’s approval for a search warrant.
At the same time, Brown — who has had several high-profile run-ins with the law, most notably for the 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna — took to Instagram to post videos. In them, he railed against the police and the media, declared his innocence, and expressed exasperation with the controversy.
“So I’m asleep half the damn night and I just wake up, and all these [expletive] helicopter choppers is around, police out there at the gate,” he said in one video. “What the [expletive] do you want from me, bro? I stay out the way, I take care of my daughter, do work.”
“When you get the warrant or whatever you need to do, you’re going to walk right up in here and you’re going to see nothing, you idiots,” Brown said in another video. “I’m tired of dealing with you all. You all are the worst gang in the world, the police. I said it.”
“Every three months you come up with something, bro,” he said in a clip. “What’s going to be next?”
Credit: Washington Post
