February 8, 2009 Chris Brown Under Investigation for Felony Battery!

Update II: R&B singer Chris Brown has been booked tonight on suspicion of making felony criminal threats in connection with an incident involving his girlfriend, pop singer Rihanna, according to Los Angeles Police Department sources familiar with the case. Brown was booked at the Wilshire Division station and posted $50,000 bail, sources said. He left the station before 9 p.m. Los Angeles police said earlier they planned to detain Brown for questioning on an alleged domestic violence assault. In an updated statement tonight, police said, additional charges may be filed against Brown when the case is presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. Brown listed his residence as Washington, Va. [The Los Angeles Times]

Update: Brown arrived at the Wilshire Division station about 7:15 p.m., accompanied by his attorney Mark Geragos and Geragos’ investigator Scott Ross. The pair drove into a parking lot behind the station on Venice Boulevard, east of La Brea Avenue, in a black Escalade. Brown and the man entered through a back door where a posted sign stated for “authorized personnel only.” Police are expected to release a statement later this evening. [The Los Angeles Times]

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R&B singer Chris Brown is under investigation for alleged domestic violence felony battery, the LAPD confirms to Los Angeles Times.

The incident is being investigated as a felony domestic violence case, police said. It was reported about 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Hancock Park. Brown and Rihanna, whose full name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, were apparently in a car together and got into an argument on North June Street, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement. Brown stopped the car, the two got out, and the argument escalated, according to police.
A witness called 911, but Brown was gone when officers arrived at the scene. The woman suffered visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker, according to police.

Chris Brown and Rihanna had appeared together Saturday night at Clive Davis’s pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills.

Shortly before the Grammy show began at 5 p.m. at Staples Center, Grammy officials issued a statement saying, “We have just been informed Rihanna will not be attending tonight’s 51st Grammy Awards. Rihanna will not be performing. We are sorry to see she is unable to join us this evening.” A publicist for the Barbados-born star, who sold more digital song downloads than any other in 2008 with nearly 10 million tracks, said Sunday night, “Rihanna is well. Thank you for your concern and support.” Her song “Disturbia,” which she’d been scheduled to perform at the ceremony, was the sixth best-selling digital track of the year. She was replaced by veteran soul singer Al Green, who was accompanied by country singer-guitarist Keith Urban. Brown’s record label spokesman did not respond to The Times’ request for comment. His whereabouts were unknown as the Grammy show began. Brown finished 2008 as the fourth-best-selling artist in the digital realm, posting 6.8 million tracks sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Los Angeles Times

Take me higher lord, please tell me my Chris Brown didn’t hit my Rihanna! What is the world coming to?

68 Comments

  • O lord he done mollywhopped some girl

  • what’s really sad is i’ve been looking on a bunch of other sites and folks are laughing and joking and saying rihanna made him do it… or they’ll support chris no matter what… that she provoked him… she was too clingy…

    hitting a woman is a pathetic punk move… and no man provoked or not should hit a woman… whether the woman turns out to be rihanna or not if he truly hit her and injured her i hope charges are pressed… so pissed and disappointed after hearing this…

  • I think he hit rihanna how sad!

  • I hope It ain’t rihanna he hitt cause i will personally damage him….. if he really hit her i’m gonna throw out all his cds i own. he turned out to be a really big disappointment!!

  • WOWWWWW!!! He seemed like such a nice boy :(

  • No one knows what really went down and simply being born female doesnt you cant be hit we are not in the prehistoric age I man hunt u jane cook No! first of all no deserves to get hit but if it escalates to that then the man is not wrong simply cuz she is a woman we dont know if she hit him or if she gave th goodies to someone else I get tired of woman or people letting woman do whatever they want then when they have to pay for their actions the women always want to play this coy victim oh i was attacked officer.. never mind all the horrible things I did to him im the beatufile fragile female victim go arrest that bad man whatever

  • some sites are saying she is in teh hospital with a broken jaw…..i think this is the end of his career that was a punk ass move by him

  • Ok what in the ham sandwhich is going on……………………………..

  • Shame, shame, shame, you know your name!!!

  • all i know is, chris brown better not have hit riri. any man, famous or not, that hits a woman is scum. regardless if it turns out to be rihanna or not, i will never respect him as a person again. that’s so low!

  • NOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I hate it when men hit on women. Its the worst things next to a man calling a woman a bitch!! Damn that’s sad Chris!!

    DO BETTER WITH YOUR LIFE!!! I’M UPSET NOW!!!

  • @Jason please please please run your discussion through spell check before submitting. Thank you. But even if you did, you make entirely NO SENSE!!!! A man or whoever deems himself to be should never ever resort to placing a finger on his woman or partner or someone he says he loves in a abusive way. How can you get your point across with bodily harm? Especially when you’re a man!!! Chris has no excuse and should suffer the consequences…Rhianna send that tap dancin fool to JAIL!!!!

  • OH HELL TO THE NAW…first off i do agree wit dat jason cat…lol…but damn this is depresing..i luv dat dude..like i will download watever it is that is new out(underground)…rihanna does seem to have taken fame to the head tho…iono bout pppl these days….shyt is just real. i REALLY hope he didn’t…plus chicks hit guys n then lie on the men n will be believed just bcause their women…that annoys me…not every girl is a saint…sumtymes they need their asses beat whether it be by a man or woman…and this is comin 4rm a person who has never faught or had to go thru that type of bull(ie…me)…so don’t put all women in the completely innocent done nothing wrong deserves the last word catagory cuz where i live…chicks r becoming more ruthless than the niggaz they hang wit…

  • Gallery of Needful Things

    February 8, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    this is so very sad and disappointing. no man or woman ever has the right to put their hands on someone.this kind of behavior is never ok. whoever this woman is i hope she takes this as a leason learned and GETS OUT of this relationship NOW!

  • ooooooooooooh lord my husband might be going 2 jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • daaaaang chris…

    lost points on that one homie.

  • just got home from work and got on the internet and saw early grammy winners on yahoo, but it also stated what happened with chris’s incident, it said that Rihanna was at Cedar Sinai Hospital!!!! Damn, he really hit her?? I always knew he was a punk!

  • This is for Danielle and Jason. I mean r yall serious? How can u even say that its the woman fault? Jason sounds like he’s a woman beater and this Danielle chick sounds like she’s the woman that would allow her man to beat her ass. Either way it go Chris was wrong. If he was a REAL man he wouldn’t have had to put his hands on any woman. He could’ve and should’ve handle the situation entirely different then he did. I hope he does get charged for what he has done. I know for a fact that if he would have found out a man was hitting on his mother or another female family member he would have had a problem with it or would want to beat that man ass. So how do u think this gurl family feels? Im pretty sure his mother or whoever raised him taught him better than that.

  • Hitting a woman…

    Tsk Tsk Tsk SMH…

  • cyniraholt bka Barbara

    February 8, 2009 at 11:39 pm

    yep,seems like an investigation..u kno’, when one is still INNOCENT.. because there was no PROOF! Calm Down!blessed b~

  • THIS IS EXTREMELY SAD!
    Chris disappointed me DEFINITELY!
    SMHDH. WOW.

  • If true, this don’t surprise me…. it’s always the ones who seem to have EVERYTHING that act the fugg up! SIT DOWN, Breezy!

  • No one really knows if this is true . So I wouldn’t be to quick to judge .

  • Well, its probably just a publicity stunt, yeah he probably socked her in the eye, she will forgive him, drop the charges and now the whole world knows who they are. Beside, what maked them so special? Where I’m from women get they ass beat all the time, the difference is we dnt call the po po, we just bust the windows out the cars! Lol!

  • u kno at…i’m going to b mature n calmly say that this has nothing to do with me…and i wd NEVER let ANYONE hit me ever cuz number one i wud never give anyone a reason to hit me n number two i’m not as weak as ppl think. i can defend myself wen needed….so whoever felt the need to speak on ME…was wrong bcuz this isn’t about me n you don’t kno me so don’t EVER say sumthing as STUPID as wat the hell i read…thats just how petty sum ppl can be. i’m trying to live right by god n i jus walked up that aile dis mornin to be a candidate 4 baptism….DO NOT…be the reason 4 my backslide…thats all i’ll say on THAT…second issue…i don’t think hitting ANYONE…do you hear me….ANYONE…is right…but ppl do it everyday…i just hate how ppl think that all women r gods and should never be touched…WRONG…if some chick was doggin ur son like a dude dogs a chick and is beatin on him should he not hit back just bcause “she’s a woman”…now a days ppl don’t THINK..i’m not saying chris brown isn’t wrong bcuz he is…and this jus made me real upset, depressed n confused, but don’t sit there and judge him wen he’s not the only heart throb to do sumthing drastic…i hate that ppl just HAVE to be right in this situation and watever i say doesn’t matter..get a f’n grip. ya’ll have ur opinions and i’e got mine….and for the record i wud NEVER LET MY BOYFRIEND beat me…r u stupid….i think personal attacks r a bit childish…i’m 17…how old r u????

  • I knew Rihanna wasn’t meant for him in the first place…i knew she was gonna bring him down because she was too clingy…she probably loved his power so much that she purposely provoked him like that…she obviously wanted something from him like most girls want from guys…and well in the process she got what she deserved…a beat down…women have to stop being so damn clingy and nag their men otherwise that’s what will happen to them.

  • 19 and already beating women!!! shame shame, so disappointing

  • Update according to LA Times it wasn’t Rihanna

    “According to the victim (who is NOT Rihanna), she and Chris got into an argument that turned ugly and violent.

    Police say the woman in question has “visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker.”

    So we all have to wait for the truth to shake lose because before this came out their was a report that Chris and Rihanna were in a car accident according to Entertainment Weekly.

    If he in fact did do what has been alleged then he needs to deal with the consequences, you don’t hit women!

  • First off i said no one knows what really went down and that no one deserves to be hit. 2 who focuses on something as petty as spell check in a comment section. and 3 I’ve never hit a woman and dont plan on it,and we all talk sensibly when we’re not in the situation ourselves and say whats right or wrong but find out we do the exact opposite we we are in that situation. All I’m saying is the woman is not this fragile needs to be protected you not a man if you hit being.. Woman can be just as strong as men physically, mentally, and emotionally.. and if anyone says different you know you women fight to prove them wrong but as soon as something goes down and a female has been hit by a men then all of a sudden all that changes come on stop holding to these outdated ideologies thats used to control or catagorize gender roles and whats socially acceptable behavior for you. I will not be a puppet for society and will decide whats acceptable for me and if i ever was in a confrontation with a female its going to be officer take US to jail because WE both were acting a fool and need a time out.not I assaulted or hit a a woman we are couple and we were fighting for whatever reason If i started fine take me too jail but dont paint her the innocent victim please!

  • HUH?! That’s all I can say..lol I’m just in shock. Secondly..just to touch on the subject of woe is me..I’m a woman, you can’t hit me crap. Well, no one..male or female should put their hands on anyone. I don’t care if it was reversed. If she had hit his butt..it would be wrong too. Just because he’s a man, shouldn’t give any reasoning to her hitting him or vice versa..it just shouldn’t go on period.

  • It’s also sad that with seemingly so much progress in the word that so many people still have this simplistic moral view fo life, that most of the time hae no validity to it and using quotes from the Bible that I’m sure no really researched or understands but just goes by what Reverend SoandSo told them it meant and he probably only has a 6th grade education Grow up and stop living in the stone age some peoples comments, lack of maturity and knowledge is the equivalent to responding to a yo mamma joke. As I stated b4 for people who cant fully read and comprehend even thru some grammatical errors I dont think RiRi or anyone else deserves what happens but things do get out of hand sometimes I’m just saying broaden your view of what could possibly be the truth.

  • I agree with the first girl, it’s not funny that this BOY hit this girl… I hope this ends his career…

  • point black period . . no man should hit a woman & if it`s true there prolly is a real man out there that will handle him . .

  • IT would be really sad and tragic if Chris did hit on Rihanna or any woman for the matter. REgardless of any argument you never hit a woman. NOw if she was tryna kill you then defend yourself. But never under any other circumstances do you hit a woman. ANd any dumb ass man, or woman that thinks this shit is cool is RETARDED!!

  • John, you can’t possibly be serious? First of all, no one can say what goes on in their private relationship. So don’t act like you know Rihanna is clingy. And even if she is, so the fuck what? You sound so absolutely ignorant I am completely disgusted. “she got what she deserved”? Oh my god. This is the thinking of someone who is capable of commiting domestic abuse. I can not wait untill we get a full story so people like John can SIT DOWN.

  • oh my word…chris? rihanna? or not rihanna? domestic violence? I need more sources in order to validate this speculation…I really don’t want to believe any of this regardless if the victim is rihanna or not…I truly hope this all gets sorted out…LORD HELP THEM ALL!

  • And I thought Chris was such a stand up dude. He seemed so innocent and clean. I guess we really dont know what the celebs are like behind closed doors. Sad…

  • It is Rihanna who got hit and turns out she hit him too!

  • and the car accident bs was a spin to try and not let this story come out lol but it did soo wow

  • MALES who hit women are cowards abd should be lynched and it doesn’t matter if you are an ordinary guy or a superstar, if you abuse a woman, you deserve to go to jail..simply put.

  • I’m hearing now that she doesn’t want to press charges, and she was not even the one to call the police. It was a bystander that call 911.
    I’m the only one thinking this is Bobby brown and Whitney part 2. I not defending Chris by any means, but Rhianna doesn’t seem as to just get beat on. She probably bruised him too. He could have hit her as reflect if she kept hit him repeating. IDK what happen so i will what to judge based on the evidence.

  • No Chris,whyyyyy?!?!?!? i just adored hm so much,and now this

    I dont think anyone deserves to hit anybody.yes,women are rude now a days and think they can do whatever because the law is on their side,but a man should never hit a woman,ever.why would you if you know you could overpower her if you wanted?

    Rihanna you need to and SHOULD have beat that ass.and now you droppin charges and ish,gonna forgive his woman beatin ass

    oh lawd,the world is going crazy

  • I have been around plenty of friends who get into a physical argument with their boyfriends and i hate to say it but it be their fault. i dont agree with a man putting his hands on a woman but some people ladies drive their men to that point because they are crazy as hell. its hard to really judge the two because no one was there to see what really happened. rihanna seems like a really sweet girl but whats seen on tv is not always the truth. once again i am not supporting chris brown for his actions but people need to give the guy a break before jumping down his back. sometimes i think people fail to realize that these celebrities are HUMANS. i hope they work everything out but if chris is really a nut case , rihanna needs to use her good sense and leave

  • Jimmy St. James

    February 9, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Regardless of what your individual thoughts may be on the different morality viewpoints, one thing is clear; This is the beginning of the end of his career.

  • I’m not excusing chris… but i’m saying, what would make a superstar risk his career and relationship right before the grammy’s….

    i think rihanna dropped some news that my man wasn’t ready to hear… hope, that message wasn’t herpetic in nature…

  • I never thought Chris Brown out of all people would loose it, especially on Rihanna. However, this kid has seen this abuse before growing up in his own home (not giving him excuse but hey). I’m looking forward to hearing both sides of this because it’s really sad to know these two young people would be involved in domestic violence.

  • Every one are exposed to domestic violence at least one time in their life

  • even if rihanna did annoy him or w.e it gives him no right to hit her!, ive seen on another site that cb also has a blue eye, so im guessin rihanna hit him to hope so cause if he did hit her he deserves a punch right back, i really didnt expect this from cb i was a really big fann but i dont know now,but all we can do is wait on something one of them says.till then i remain pissed at cb.

  • neither a man or woman should resort to violence. I don’t nor do we know the full details. There are better solutions. Some women think they can get away with hitting a man. If you do that it’s like your basically challenging a man on his physical level. Don’t do it if you don’t want to get hit back. Plain and simple. I had a girl keep slapping me in the face when I was young. She was testing me because she knew I wouldn’t hit back and it was humiliating. Some women are like that. I am NOT saying she did this because I do not know but for people who say men shouldn’t hit women. They should tell some women not to beat on women. No one should each other unless in self defense. If it is a women I would suggest pushing her away but I would not let her beat me up. I am a short and slim guy some girls are bigger then me anyway. If you hit someone your saying you want to fight! Don’t blame anyone yet!

  • oh my god,, really?! this is so tragic to believe!
    i am eager to know what happened in detail!

  • rihanna look like she would do sumthing to make him go to that extent.so i got chris brown back.sorry if yall r offended!

  • hey i love u b scott and all but…..rihanna look like she would make him go to that extent.cuz maybe she had a stank attitude towards him and finally one day he just snap on her a** lol.but ur right he shouldnt of hit her but when u had enough that just takes the cake.so i got chris brown back on this one yall!

  • WOW, Bobby and Whitney the sequel!

    Chris didn’t seem like the type, but then again, you can never really know.

  • PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!!The reason why Chris hit Rihanna was because she gave him the STD Herpes.Out of all seriousness right now it’s been reported by a very close source to Chris Brown, and you can even look it up on the Internet,that Rihanna gave him Herpes.Now I’m all for saying{and very quick indeed}men should never put there hands on women but I’m sorry if I was in his perdicament I’d probably would have had done the same thing and I’m a female!!!I’m sorry but if she had the disease and didn’t tell him and they had sexual intercourse than I probably would’ve punch her ass out too.But hopefully it’s just a rumor because honestly he’s too good of an artist to falling into this mess.And hopefully it was something else that made him punch her in the face but if she gave him Herpes I can understand but if she didn’t I dont really know what to think so yeah……

  • Well its been reported that they had a volatile relationship and that she has attacked him before and he has attacked him before if that is true I think they both need counseling and anger management treatment. and its been reported that RiRi wasn’t the one who called the cops but a witness..which is probably true if this type stuff happened between all the time…Chris Brown is wrong especially for doing it in public, but if this is the type of relationship both him an RiRi had where they both lashed out in anger at each other then i think its unfair for him to be facing prison time possibly losing his entire career…9yrs in prison come on… Thats only if the report are true that they both were violent towards each other.If she is the innoccent victim then send him up the creek, but I dont think that this a simple black and white issue things are complicated and there are details that we will never know, but it doesnt matter right or wrong Chris is going to be cruxified by the media no matter what evidence comes out he’s a guy and RiRi’s a beautiful young woman..not picking sides cuz i dont know what happened but thats the truth

  • @ naenaeboo16_ns
    Someone from Chris’ camp is making up that rumour! Please dont promote lies on bscott’s site. The rumour may have also been made up by Bossip.com because thats the only site claiming the herpes story!

    Plus giving someone an STD is no reason to hit a woman! Chris’ actions were cowardly irrespective of how far Rihanna pushed him! A man should never lay his hands on a woman end of- how can anyone in their right mind justify domestic abuse? Only sickos would

  • princesstp a.k.a. Ms.Tamar-Charmaine

    February 9, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    ive seen chris brown in person , dude is huge he has some big hands too so if he hit rihanna i can see y she would have to go to the hospital..and also we cannot judge chris for hittin rihanna u dont know what happened for all u know they could of been arguing and rihanna said something that got to him then he snapped and accidently hit her , panicked and ran when he relized what he did

  • so what Chris put the smack down on Ri Ri so i guess she can now be a spokesperson for Domestic Violence…smh

  • Jason U Must b Th BiGGEST C*NT I Ever Heard Did U Read A Word Of What U Wrote?? I Mean Come On Man…… Thats Ur take On This Shit?? Hittin Women NO MATTER WHO SHE IZ!! THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION. I GUESS UR 1 Of The Bomestic Violence PPL I Could Imagine Ur Mate Does C Real hell Under U!!

  • princesstp a.k.a. Ms.Tamar-Charmaine

    Here’s the thing. Why is it an excuse just because he’s Chris Brown. You don’t hear people being on the guys side when it’s regular people and domestic abuse. This is EXACTLY why the woman stays when she’s hit. She assumes he didn’t meant it and is sorry (sometimes they don’t mean it) but after a couple of times of fighting you have to ask yourself “is it you or me?” My thing is what the hell happened to self control. If I am aware that I’m reaching that point to where I feel like I just wanna smack a bitch (knowing my mother was treated like so) I definitely will halt myself. People we need to become more aware of ourselves. That’s why we have a mind and thoughts. To retain thoughts past experiences, learn from them and know NOT to repeat it.

  • Chris probably only slapped rihanna…girls slap guys all the time and throw drinks on them and people say: go girl he deserved that…but when men slap women women scream victim…The man would always be damned either way it goes…and yet women scream equal rights…anyway a lot of people don’t like rihanna so chris was just doing what everyone else wanted to do: slap the jealous clingy bitch! LOL…no but on a real note…Chris has way more power than Rihanna…Rihanna isn’t really a beyonce cause rihanna doesn’t even have much talent, and she doesn’t seem serious about her career like Beyonce is…But i know for a fact that rihanna needed chris and not the other way around, and maybe she sensed that he wanted to leave her so in her mind it was probably like…fuck, if i can’t have him then this relationship is going out with a bang, and look at what she did…made this a huge publicity stunt by provoking Chris like that…poor chris…i mean seriously…but this is what he gets for messing with jealous control freak clingy women. Learn your lesson next time my friend…focus on your career more than the women.

  • LuvMuffin _Michaela':)

    February 9, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    lord take the wheel!

  • i have to comment for the second time ,
    you know what, just because chris brown turned himself in
    does not mean he is guilty . and if he had not turned himself in than ppl still would have something to say . and i will not feed into the negative hype. dont ppl have better things to do than to worrie about what’s really none of our business anyway . and “if” anything did happen to Rihanna i wish her the best !! but i also believe in forgiveness and i wish chris brown the best and i will still support . of i think he was out of his mind if he hit her, but i also think that we forget that he is human and things happen weather their good or bad . and it sad . he so young and still has a bright future ahead of him . and so does Rihanna . God Bless them both . but seriously i that negative mess is real nasty, CUT IT OUT PEOPLE !

  • Everyone needs to calm down.. I’m disappointed to even HEAR of some stupid drama like this, especially in regards to these two. But let’s all remember…THIS IS MEDIA. And the media will throw anything and everything out of proportion just to make some money. It seems like people always want to start drama with those that are happy and seem to have no problems…what’s next? Beyonce cheats on Jay-Z and Jay-Z has his goons take her out?? I mean …wow come on.

    In addition, the so-called woman who CALLED 9-1-1 was NOT RIHANNA. There is confusion about if Rihanna even was even the woman who was abused!! Sh*t…yall seen “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate” HELL…women do make things up now…and men do tend to hide things..

    I just feel like. If Chris Brown didn’t do anything…Then why flee the scene???? anywho. That was my 2 cents.

  • She should have hit him with her umbrellas!!

  • BScott!!! I need you to way in on this matter strong!! Lawd I really just don’t know what to say. I wanna wait till everything pans out and all the facts are heard but I need to hear word from you. An I think Chris needs to hear a word from the Lord right now… I’m worried for him. Jesus take the wheel in his life

  • DANGGG .. none 2 say tho

  • I HEARD CHRIS BROWN WAS BEING UNFAITHFUL AND SHE KEPT TELLING HIM TO SHUT UP AND DRIVE AND HE PULLED OVER IN THE PARK AND HIT HER WITH AN UMBRELLA CAUSE SHE TRIED BREAKIN DISHES LMAO!!

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