Shia LaBeouf arrested at his anti-Trump art installation

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26 January 2017 at 5:00 am

Arrested… Shia was taken away following a fracas – Credit: AFP

Shia LaBeouf has been arrested at the site of his anti-Trump art installation in New York, following a fracas with another man.

The 30-year-old actor has been protesting the election since the day of Trump’s inauguration, with a live camera feed running 24-hours a day from outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.

He has promised to keep it running for the entire length of Donald Trump’s term, but was taken away by police yesterday.

According to #HeWillNotDivideUs Twitter feed, he was arrested after a man approached him to pose in front of the camera, before saying ‘Hitler did nothing wrong’.

Shia LaBeouf has been arrested by NYPD, because of this video #HeWillNotDivideUs #FreeShia pic.twitter.com/Sj8RqP7uGm
— #HeWillNotDivideUs (@HWNDUS) January 26, 2017

LaBeouf is then seen to shove the man, which is what’s thought to have led to the arrest and his detention at the 114th precinct.

Though the details of the incident are not clear, posts on the installation’s Twitter feed claim that Nazi sympathisers had turned up at the site and clashed with protesters.

RETWEET
For those of you who don't know what happened. Shia was attacked by a nazi. Shia got arrested. Nazi got away. #FreeShia #FreeShia
— #HeWillNotDivideUs (@HWNDUS) January 26, 2017

we are really living in a society now that arrests a jewish man for non violently trying to silence nazis who are antagonizing him #freeshia
— #HeWillNotDivideUs (@HWNDUS) January 26, 2017

Shia LaBeouf is a Jewish man and this is very offensive to him and other Jews. He says "why'd you attack me" when he went and attacked Shia.
— #HeWillNotDivideUs (@HWNDUS) January 26, 2017

According to the feed, LaBeouf now been released from police custody.

It’s the second incident of alt-right Trump supporters turning up, with LaBeouf clashing with another man on Sunday.

The star was seen shouting the protest’s slogan ‘he will not divide us’ in the man’s face.

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