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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 08:18 PM Aug 2016

Chris Brown Arrested For Assault with a Deadly Weapon

Source: TMZ

Chris Brown has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon ... a felony.

TMZ broke the story ... Brown allegedly pulled a gun on a guest at his home early Tuesday morning after an argument ... she claims over jewelry.

Baylee Curran filed a police report and cops obtained a search warrant. As we reported, while Chris was holed up in his house, he threw a duffel bag out his window that contained 2 guns and drugs.

Brown will be taken to the police station for processing.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/30/chris-brown-arrested-assault-with-deadly-weapon-gun/

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Chris Brown Arrested For Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Aug 2016 OP
seriously DonCoquixote Aug 2016 #1
Lucky he didn't kill anybody MattP Aug 2016 #2
Who in the Sam Hell is Chris Brown? longship Aug 2016 #3
This generation's Bobby Brown.... nt MADem Aug 2016 #4
Well, that explains it! longship Aug 2016 #5
Far from it. KeepItReal Aug 2016 #8
See post 20. As for CB, he has a fairly extensive portfolio of hits, notwithstanding his MADem Aug 2016 #21
Bobby Brown was much bigger at his peak melman Aug 2016 #28
Everyone thinks the singers from their era were the biggest. MADem Aug 2016 #29
What? melman Aug 2016 #30
We're going to have to agree to disagree, here. MADem Aug 2016 #32
I agree with you... especially given the differences in the eras Blasphemer Aug 2016 #38
Who is talking about talent, here? MADem Aug 2016 #39
Do you think they parallel each other? I'm not disagreeing with you at all. NWCorona Aug 2016 #16
I am an old fart so what do I know? I'm talking more from the FAME angle. MADem Aug 2016 #20
I'm with you on that. Who throws guns and drugs out the window lol! NWCorona Aug 2016 #27
Desperation tactic to keep the cops from finding it. Sand Rat Expat Aug 2016 #35
Im with you... "Who?" Earth_First Aug 2016 #6
He claims to be a singer. OldRedneck Aug 2016 #9
I have trouble keeping up myself ripcord Aug 2016 #10
don't forget his tattoo of a battered woman arithia Aug 2016 #12
WHAT!!!! you don't know who Chris Brown is? bigdarryl Aug 2016 #15
Nope. I do not like rap. longship Aug 2016 #18
He's NOT a rapper he is an R&B singer bigdarryl Sep 2016 #41
I've heard of him, but I wondered why someone wrote a news article about it. It's not significant. Judi Lynn Aug 2016 #25
Oh for pity's sake. Sand Rat Expat Aug 2016 #36
I'm with Chris Brown on this one Mosby Aug 2016 #7
I might be mistaken but I believe Chris Brown plead guilty to a felony some years back. Waldorf Aug 2016 #11
yup... lapfog_1 Aug 2016 #13
Were there other people in the house? (nt) enough Aug 2016 #14
There was at least one woman Mosby Aug 2016 #19
What happened in Stanford christx30 Aug 2016 #22
Yes, many people. Geragos is going to get a big payday, but he will earn it, if he can "fix" this. MADem Aug 2016 #24
He was pointing the gun at a woman in his home. MADem Aug 2016 #23
There is no safe harbor, no safe space, for assault. Duh. . . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #26
It's not a trivial issue if he points the gun at another person... NT Sand Rat Expat Aug 2016 #37
I'm not a fan. I could never get past the DV charge. NWCorona Aug 2016 #17
Chris Brown Joins the Republican Party ErikJ Aug 2016 #31
You do know that's a parody site? They're making light of the fact that he beat the crap out of MADem Aug 2016 #33
Obviously in bad taste. ErikJ Aug 2016 #34
Chris Brown Released on $250K Bail After Arrest Eugene Aug 2016 #40
But if it were a poor black man, he'd have been shot first.... n/t JesterCS Sep 2016 #42
Really, you have to go there............ Old Vet Sep 2016 #43
and you have already convicted him. Mosby Sep 2016 #45
He is a felon in possession of drugs and guns. christx30 Sep 2016 #46
Dang caught singing! whistler162 Sep 2016 #44
Mark Geragos: No Guns or Drugs Found by LAPD ... Accuser's Fame Hungry Mosby Sep 2016 #47
Chris Brown Accuser Text Vowing to 'Set Him Up' Mosby Sep 2016 #48
That really is "f*** up" if true. PersonNumber503602 Sep 2016 #49

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
1. seriously
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 08:23 PM
Aug 2016

When you have someone who has mental health issues being allowed to get right back on the money making circuit without resolving those issues, you get a tragedy.

This person, unless he stops and gets help, is the next early corpse.

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. Well, that explains it!
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 08:50 PM
Aug 2016


Might as well have said this generation's Himie Hivenheimer.

To Google I must go. A little traveling music please.



Oh. Rap. No wonder I don't know him. He isn't an opera singer.

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts)
8. Far from it.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:04 PM
Aug 2016

Bobby Brown had a huge success with New Edition before he went solo.

Chris Brown has zero tracks to compare to New Edition or Bobby Brown's solo #1 hits.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
21. See post 20. As for CB, he has a fairly extensive portfolio of hits, notwithstanding his
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:57 PM
Aug 2016

lousy personal behavior. I suspect CB is the bigger earner overall by far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brown_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Brown_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Edition_discography

CB's body of work is much more substantial.

 

melman

(7,681 posts)
28. Bobby Brown was much bigger at his peak
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:47 PM
Aug 2016

Don't Be Cruel sold seven million copies, spent six weeks at number one, and five of its songs were top ten hits.

My Prerogative, Every Little Step, Roni - these were giant hits. His videos were on MTV constantly. He was huge.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
29. Everyone thinks the singers from their era were the biggest.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:56 PM
Aug 2016

Chris Brown has produced more, gotten paid more, and hung on to his money better--even with all his "issues."

I'm not a fan, BTW. But what is, is. MTV ain't the way kids get their music anymore, so that's kind of like trying to equate the gramophone to the transistor radio....

 

melman

(7,681 posts)
30. What?
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:11 AM
Aug 2016

This has nothing to do with me defending my era. Bobby Brown was and is far from my kind of music. I don't listen to him and didn't in 1988.

But he was a bigger star then than Chris Brown is now. It's a fact.

And it doesn't matter that MTV isn't a factor now. That's irrelevant. It was a huge factor then and his videos dominated it.


btw, those same videos have huge view counts on youtube, the place where many kids do get there music.




this one here has 25,142,293 views. Over 25 million views for a song that came out 17 years before youtube existed.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
32. We're going to have to agree to disagree, here.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:21 AM
Aug 2016

Chris Brown is a massive earner with an enormous discography. He sells out routinely, he collaborates with other "mega-stars" and he's worth a fortune. Bobby Brown had a few pop hits, went to jail, and lived off his wife. He's still living off her memory and down to his last two million.

Neither artist is a paragon of virtue or a role model, but that's a separate issue.


http://moneynation.com/chris-brown-net-worth/


https://www.gobankingrates.com/personal-finance/bobby-brown-net-worth/

Blasphemer

(3,261 posts)
38. I agree with you... especially given the differences in the eras
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:18 AM
Aug 2016

It's much easier circa the 2000s to have a string of hit songs than it was in the late 80s. It was also MUCH harder to crossover from R&B than it is today. A career like Chris Brown's doesn't seem that impressive to me given the times we live in. He's not that musically gifted. It's very hard to truly break out as a "star." Even someone like Drake who is very successful doesn't really have the A-list musician aura. If you swap the artists and their eras, I think Bobby Brown would have been even more successful now while Chris Brown would have been a blip on the screen 25 years ago. For all of his faults, Booby Brown has far more actual talent.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
39. Who is talking about talent, here?
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 01:59 AM
Aug 2016

"Musically gifted" often does not determine who is famous and successful, and who is not.

But 48 million is a great deal more than 2. Billboard hits are what they are. The bottom line is what it is.

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
16. Do you think they parallel each other? I'm not disagreeing with you at all.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:53 PM
Aug 2016

I'm just not up on his music like that. He definitely is taking the same tragic route tho.

Bobby Brown has some hits under his belt.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
20. I am an old fart so what do I know? I'm talking more from the FAME angle.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:50 PM
Aug 2016

Young guy, all the young girls are ooohing and aaaahing over him, "Oooooh, isn't he cuuuuuuuute?" then he gets a little older and starts treating women like garbage and the media picks up on that element.

That's kind of the parallel that I'm thinking.

BB ended up in jail, so did CB--and it looks like he might be going back, seeing as he's tossing a duffel bag of guns and drugs out his window....

Sand Rat Expat

(290 posts)
35. Desperation tactic to keep the cops from finding it.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:48 AM
Aug 2016

Chuck it out the window and hope to God that the cops overlook it.

ripcord

(5,084 posts)
10. I have trouble keeping up myself
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:06 PM
Aug 2016

The reason I know him is that he is the piece of shit who beat the crap out of Rihanna.

arithia

(455 posts)
12. don't forget his tattoo of a battered woman
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:18 PM
Aug 2016

on his neck that closely resembles Rhianna's broken face.

Dude has some legit issues. I hope he gets some help before he kills some poor woman.

longship

(40,416 posts)
18. Nope. I do not like rap.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:04 PM
Aug 2016

I'm into long hair music and have absolutely no interest whatsoever in popular music. There is no reason why I should know who that guy is. I had to Google his name to find out.

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
25. I've heard of him, but I wondered why someone wrote a news article about it. It's not significant.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:21 PM
Aug 2016

Maybe the attraction is racist: a chance to parade a black guy known to be out of control around again for more hatred.

Sand Rat Expat

(290 posts)
36. Oh for pity's sake.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:54 AM
Aug 2016

It's TMZ. They report on it if a celebrity breaks a nail. This guy is a known woman-beater who was just arrested for an altercation with a woman that involved a weapon. I'm not saying it's "stop the presses!" breaking news on all the major outlets, but for a celebrity-focused news outlet, it's certainly newsworthy.

If he hadn't beaten the shit out of Rihanna, he wouldn't be known far and wide as an abuser of women. If he hadn't pulled a gun on a woman in this incident, he wouldn't have been arrested for doing so. His poor choices have resulted in his reputation and his problems, not racism.

Not every damn thing in the world boils down to racism, you know.

Mosby

(16,168 posts)
7. I'm with Chris Brown on this one
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:01 PM
Aug 2016

He's drunk waving around a gun in his own house? Let's send him to jail for 20 years.

Fucking bullshit.


Waldorf

(654 posts)
11. I might be mistaken but I believe Chris Brown plead guilty to a felony some years back.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:12 PM
Aug 2016

That would make it illegal for him to have a gun.

He might be spending some time in jail.

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
13. yup...
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:31 PM
Aug 2016

and knowing that owning a gun would likely send him to prison...

His idea was to put his guns and drugs into a duffle bag and throw it out the window?

Terminally stupid. This is why you have high priced lawyers to come and get the illegal items after you move them to a secret (very secret) hiding spot (must be inside something else metal) and you have had the lawyer talk to everyone at your party (including the uninvited guests) and paid them off make sure that the story is muddled (someone else had a gun and you yelled at the girl or there was never a gun there or whatever).

Going to cost you $250,000 or so but you avoid jail.

Mosby

(16,168 posts)
19. There was at least one woman
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:09 PM
Aug 2016

who left and called the police. she told the police he had a gun so they went to a judge and got a search warrant for the house.

They then executed the warrant and arrested Brown.

He's black so he will get at least 100 times the sentence of the Stanford rapist just for waving a gun around in his own damn house.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
22. What happened in Stanford
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:02 PM
Aug 2016

wasn't justice. Chris Brown is a violent felon. By law, he's forbidden to touch a weapon. He handed the evidence to the cops. Anything that happens to him will be justice.
He's got rage issues. But he will serve time. Probably the best thing for society.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
24. Yes, many people. Geragos is going to get a big payday, but he will earn it, if he can "fix" this.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:05 PM
Aug 2016

MADem

(135,425 posts)
23. He was pointing the gun at a woman in his home.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:03 PM
Aug 2016
The search was sparked by a call for help from a woman who said she had been threatened by the performer, police sources said, with officers first arriving at Brown’s home in the 5000 block of Corbin Avenue about 3 a.m. Tuesday.

The woman, Baylee Curran, told The Times that Brown, who has had several previous run-ins with the law, pointed a gun at her during a violent rage before she ran outside to call police.

Curran said she and a friend had gone to Brown’s home with a business associate, who was invited by the musician. She wanted to talk to Brown about future projects, she said.

When she went inside, a handful of people was milling about and chatting, Curran said.

Curran said she eventually went to Brown’s backyard to get some fresh air. Her confrontation with the musician erupted soon after she walked back into the house, she said.

A man was showcasing diamond bracelets, necklaces and watches inside the home, she said. Curran said she began to admire a diamond cross necklace.

“I don’t know if it was Chris’ friend or how he was related, but that’s when he told me to back away from the diamond necklace and started cussing me out and calling me names,” she said. “That’s when Chris pulled his gun and told me to ‘Get out.’ He said ‘I’m sick of you girls, get the F out!’”




http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-chris-brown-gun-20160830-snap-story.html

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
17. I'm not a fan. I could never get past the DV charge.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 09:57 PM
Aug 2016

I did hope that he would get his life together for his daughters sake and it seemed like he was trying.

What a waste on multiple levels.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
31. Chris Brown Joins the Republican Party
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:19 AM
Aug 2016

May 9, 2013
Singer Chris Brown joined the Republican Party today, citing its stances on homosexuality and women's rights as motivation.

In an interview with E! news in New York, the controversial recording artist explained that he's become more politically aware in the past few months and was amazed to discover how much he and Republicans have in common.

"I didn't even know anything about politics," Brown explained, "but my business manager said I should start making charitable and political donations for tax purposes. So I started researching all about the parties and the candidates. And it turns out these Republicans are for real!

"The GOP, they're all about puttin' women back in their place. Makin' them submit. Just being like 'Bitch, make me a sandwich'. And I love that. Its old school. You don't hear that enough nowadays.

"And they're legit with the gays too. Its like who wants to see that s**t? Ain't nobody wanna see two dudes making out in a church. Keep it to yourselves."

You, Me on the Convention Floor
Chris Brown is a multi-platinum recording artist known for hits like Kiss Kiss, With You and Forever and for dating the much more successful female singer Rihanna.

It is his notoriously rocky relationship with that Barbados-born performer which has kept him in the news in recent years. He has repeatedly made misogynistic comments regarding the relationship and was convicted in 2009 for a brutal domestic violence incident.

While he says he believes in a balanced budget, sound money and a strong military, Brown says it was his struggles with the law that most informed his decision to become a Republican.

"For me, the key moment was when I found out the Republicans tried to stop the Violence Against Women Act," he explains. "I was like 'Hell ya, these motherf**kers got my back!'

"Where I come from if somebody steps ups and fights for you, then you got a duty to pay them back. So I'm joining up, and I'll be campaigning for all the candidates in 2014.
....................................
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/05/09/chris-brown-joins-the-republican-party/

MADem

(135,425 posts)
33. You do know that's a parody site? They're making light of the fact that he beat the crap out of
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:24 AM
Aug 2016

Rhianna and he's made other intolerant comments, and in that context it's not very funny at all.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
34. Obviously in bad taste.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 12:30 AM
Aug 2016

I am sorry. But it was pretty funny. But it reminds us that the Republicans DID vote down the Violence against women act. I would hope you remembered that. I forgot myself.

Eugene

(61,596 posts)
40. Chris Brown Released on $250K Bail After Arrest
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:41 AM
Aug 2016

Source: ABC News

Chris Brown Released on $250K Bail After Arrest

By RICKI HARRIS and J.J. GALLAGHER - Aug 31, 2016, 3:28 AM ET

Chris Brown has been released from police custody after being arrested Tuesday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, tweeted early Wednesday morning that the musician had been released, adding, "The allegations against him are demonstrably false."

Mark Geragos ✔ @markgeragos
Thanks to everyone for their support and well wishes. Chris is out and well. The allegations against him are demonstrably false #TeamBreezy
2:32 AM - 31 Aug 2016

The arrest at Brown's Los Angeles home took place after a nearly 14-hour standoff, the Associated Press reported, and ended when police obtained a search warrant to enter the residence.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/lapd-search-underway-chris-browns-home/story?id=41749113

Old Vet

(2,001 posts)
43. Really, you have to go there............
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:32 PM
Sep 2016

He put a handgun in this ladys face, Geez, don't think it matters rich or poor, black or white IMO.

Mosby

(16,168 posts)
45. and you have already convicted him.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:45 PM
Sep 2016

Based on what a single person said about the events in question.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
46. He is a felon in possession of drugs and guns.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 01:04 PM
Sep 2016

I wouldn't mind seeing him get some prison time.
He's clearly a violent person that has had more than his share of second- and third chances.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7494648/chris-brown-legal-problems-timeline

If anyone else did half the crap this guy has pulled, they would be in jail for a while. Guess that's the advantages of having a good lawyer on standby.

Mosby

(16,168 posts)
48. Chris Brown Accuser Text Vowing to 'Set Him Up'
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:09 PM
Sep 2016

The woman who accused Chris Brown of pointing a gun at her allegedly wrote a text message shortly after the incident saying she was going to frame Chris with the gun allegation out of revenge ... but she denies sending any such message.

TMZ has obtained a copy of the text, sent to an acquaintance named Safari -- no relation to Nicki Minaj's ex. The text was purportedly sent Tuesday at 2:57 AM, shortly after Baylee Curran was kicked out of Chris' house. It reads:

"Hey safari don't you know this freak Chris brown is kicking me out of his house because I called his friend jewelry fake can you come get me my Uber is messing up if not I'm going to set him up and call the cops and say that he tried to shoot me and that will teach him a lesson I'm going to set his ass up. Lol come get me."

He responded, "Really that's f*** up you ain't going to do that your wrong if you do."

We've learned the alleged text is in possession of Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, who's trying to authenticate it.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/09/01/chris-brown-accuser-text-falsely-accuse-gun/

PersonNumber503602

(1,134 posts)
49. That really is "f*** up" if true.
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 08:42 PM
Sep 2016

Again, assuming that turns out to be true, why the hell would anyone do that? Is it really that easy for some to destroy someone's life? I'm not a fan (or "hater&quot of Chris Brown, and I understand he is likely an unsympathetic character, but that's really not cool if she really did lie to get him in trouble.

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