“LAPD and LAFD are now loading him into an ambulance.”Īs the show was winding down, Chappelle had just been talking about the need to raise his security since he made controversial jokes about transgender people. “Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chapelle on stage and got his ass kicked by at least 10 people,” she tweeted. Reporter Brianna Sacks, who was at the show, tweeted footage of the police and fire department at the scene. It was not immediately known if he had retained a lawyer.
Lee was treated by medical staff for an unspecified injury and was booked into jail early Wednesday and held in lieu of $30,000 bail, Mendez said. Isaiah Lee, 23, was detained and arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, said Officer Alba Mendez, a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman. The fake handgun with the real knife blade inside that was taken from the man who attacked comedian Dave Chappelle.
