Shia LaBeouf Accused Of 'Verbal Abuse' During Drunken Arrest

Shia LaBeouf is said to have been ‘confrontational’ and 'verbally aggressive’ towards the police officer who arrested him on Friday night in Austin, Texas.

The troubled star, who entered rehab last year for his problems with alcohol, is said to have called the arresting officer 'a silly man’ three times, and added that he was usually let go in such incidences because 'police had killed a friend of his’.

LaBeouf, 29, was jaywalking in Austin at around 7.30pm in front of a police vehicle with two women aged 18 and 20, according to Austin news website Statesman, which has seen the arrest affidavit.

Police say that they could smell alcohol on him, and 'his speech was slurred… and his eyes were glassy and dilated’.

He then became angry because a passer-by was recording the incident on a phone.

Approaching the passer-by with the camera and ‘puffing his chest and walking in an aggressive and threatening manner’, the officer was then forced to intervene, at which point LeBeouf told him to 'do whatever the f**k you gotta do’.

He was then arrested for being a 'danger to himself and others’ and was charged with public intoxication, before being booked at a local police station and later released.

It’s far from the first time that LaBeouf has found himself on the wrong side of the law, but it is the first time in a short while.

He was arrested in June of last year in New York for disorderly conduct, after he refused to leave a Broadway play. He spat at the police officer and used foul language.

In November, 2014, he checked into rehab to address his problems with alcohol.

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