George Lopez is charged after brawl with Trump supporter at a New Mexico Hooters
Comedian George Lopez is being charged with misdemeanor battery after getting into a fight with a man at a Hooters restaurant last month, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. The incident occurred on Oct. 14 in New Mexico, where Lopez was filming the upcoming faith-based movie Walking With Herb.
TMZ.com obtained cellphone video footage of the incident this week, which shows Lopez attempting to snatch a cellphone from a man who verbally provoked him. “Here comes my boy, George. Jorge Lopez,” the man says, before Lopez is shown grabbing the back of the man’s neck. “He’s a bad-ass — look at him, he wants to fight me, he wants to fight me!”
According to TMZ.com, the man had been baiting Lopez all evening, frequently yelling “MAGA” and making pro-Trump comments. However, the man gave police a different story. According to the police report obtained by the Sun-News, the man claimed that he was only trying to get a photograph with the star and made the comments in an attempt to get Lopez to smile for the camera.
The man said Lopez grabbed the cellphone, videotaped his crotch area, and then deleted the video. After waiting for Lopez by the entrance to the restaurant, he confronted the comedian as he attempted to leave. Lopez later admitted that he reached for the man’s cellphone and then grabbed him, saying he believed the man was waiting for him by the front of the restaurant “to get him upset on camera because of his ‘MAGA’ statements.”
Lopez has been a vocal critic of President Trump. In July, he pretended to urinate on Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a bottle of water. Lopez certainly isn’t the only one who has made headlines at Trump’s star: Someone placed a golden toilet next to the star with a tank that read “Take a Trump,” while others have scribbled expletives on the star. One person even smashed it with a pickax.
Lopez co-stars with Edward James Olmos and Kathleen Quinlan in Walking With Herb, which tells the story of a former golf champ who “is struggling with his faith as his three-year-old granddaughter and her father have just died,” according to IMDB.com.
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