Will Packer, the producer of the 2022 Oscars, is giving more insight into Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during Sunday’s Academy Awards.
In an interview with “Good Morning America” to air on Friday, Packer said that the LAPD came to his office later that evening and were prepared to arrest Smith. “They were saying, ‘This is battery.’ That was the word they used in that moment,” Packer said. “They said, ‘We will go get him.
We are prepared. We will go get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him.” The LAPD also spoke to Rock about pressing charges, but he declined to do so. “They were laying out the options.
And as they were talking, Chris was — he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine.’ And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no.
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