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Chris Brown Feels Like Jesus, While Frank Ocean Wants to Press Charges
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The aftermath of the Chris Brown-Frank Ocean brawl is proving to include some curious elements, including the news that Ocean is looking to press charges, and Brown is feeling a lot like Jesus Christ.
The fight between the two music stars took place Sunday night in West Hollywood at the Westlake Recording Studios, where the men reportedly got into over a parking space.
TMZ reports things got heated when Ocean refused to shake Brown's hand and laughed at the outreached hand, which didn't go over so well with the tempestuous R&B singer. "Chris was so pissed he coldcocked Ocean and started an all-out war."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed Monday that Ocean is looking to press charges, with Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore telling the media: "The victim is desirous of prosecution."
The LASD don't consider Brown a "wanted man," but they sure do want to talk to him. According to 97.1 AMP/CBS2, Whitmore said of Brown: "He’s not an outlaw. It is a misdemeanor battery case."
Brown has denied being the instigator of the fight, and spent his time Monday sulking, and expressing himself in art. His self-directed art therapy produced an illustration of Jesus, which Brown posted to his Instagram account with this caption: "Painting the way I feel today. Focus on what matters!"
Regardless of what mattered enough to warrant a meeting of the fists Sunday night, as TMZ describes, the Westlake Studios' lobby was pretty torn up from the fight: "[S]ources say the brawling posses demolished the place --'They managed to break almost everything in the room and scare all of the staff members working' says the witness."
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The LASD's Steve Whitmore says there were no serious injuries, “just some minor scrapes.”
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