LOS ANGELES — Oscars producer Will Packer told “Good Morning America” that Los Angeles police were prepared to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock during Sunday’s awards ceremony.
The officers didn’t make the arrest because Rock declined to press charges, Packer told the ABC program in a recent interview, which is set to air Friday morning.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was the word they use in that moment,” he told the program. “They said, ‘We will go get him; we are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him.’ They were laying out the options, and as they were talking, Chris was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, I’m fine.’ He was like, ‘No, no, no.’”
