DA rejects battery charge against Kanye West
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Kanye West will not face criminal charges over an incident in which he apparently punched a man in a Beverly Hills chiropractor’s office, prosecutors determined Friday.
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office rejected a battery case against the rapper because he reached a civil settlement and there were no significant injuries documented after the altercation.
The altercation occurred after the 18-year-old man used a racial slur in an argument with West’s fiancee Kim Kardashian Jan. 13, according to a document prepared by a prosecutor. The man held the door for Kardashian when she entered the building and they exchanged words. The reality starlet called West, who came to the building and attacked the man in the chiropractor’s office, the document states.
West was not arrested and his attorney Blair Berk declined comment on the prosecutor’s decision.
The prosecutor’s charge evaluation sheet says there were conflicting witness accounts about how many times West punched the man, but noted he wasn’t seriously injured.
The rapper faces a misdemeanor battery charge filed after the singer was involved in a videotaped altercation with a paparazzo at Los Angeles International Airport last year. West plead not guilty, and the case is scheduled for a hearing Feb. 25.