{"id":104996,"date":"2016-08-31T05:48:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104996"},"modified":"2016-08-31T05:49:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T13:49:35","slug":"lat-surreal-standoff-ends-with-chris-brown-under-arrest-but-the-rb-singer-says-hes-the-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104996","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Surreal standoff ends with Chris Brown under arrest, but the R&#038;B singer says he&#8217;s the victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/27\/asia\/chris-brown-australia-tour-visa\/index.html\">I wonder why Australia banned this guy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-chris-brown-gun-20160830-snap-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nChris Brown and the Los Angeles Police Department spent much of Tuesday locked in a surreal standoff at the R&#038;B performer&#8217;s Tarzana home over allegations that he threatened a woman with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said Brown pointed the gun at her and she fled in fear, then balked at signing a nondisclosure agreement before escaping from the singer\u2019s property. <\/p>\n<p>For hours, LAPD officers \u2014 along with an army of reporters \u2014 stood outside the house as Brown refused to let them in. During the impasse, the 27-year-old posted a series of videos on social media in which he railed against the police and said he was being unfairly demonized.<\/p>\n<p>This latest peculiar chapter in L.A.\u2019s annals of celebrity justice ended late in the afternoon when Brown was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He was released around 11:15 p.m. after posting $250,000 bail, according to Los Angeles County jail records.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why Australia banned this guy. Los Angeles Times: Chris Brown and the Los Angeles Police Department spent much of Tuesday locked in a surreal standoff at the R&#038;B performer&#8217;s Tarzana home over allegations that he threatened a woman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=104996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104999,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104996\/revisions\/104999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}