Flashing a defiant “rock on” sign, actor Shia LaBeouf emerged early Thursday from a Queens police station, where he was released after allegedly slugging a man at an oddball anti-President Trump protest.
“We will not be divided!” he proclaimed at around 3:45 a.m. outside the 114th Precinct, waving to a handful of supporters, and then hopping into a green cab.
The “American Honey” star was performing his “He Will Not Divide Us” protest at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria when he allegedly grabbed at the scarf of a 25-year-old man, “causing a scratch to the man’s face,” then pushed him to the ground, police told Reuters.
Cops arrested LaBeouf about 12:30 a.m. Thursday on suspicion of misdemeanor assault and harassment.
The alleged victim did not ask for medical treatment, and remained at the scene, police said.
A video taken from the performance, going on outside the Museum of the Moving Image, shows LaBeouf being apprehended in the background.
In an earlier video, a man approaches LaBeouf and embraces him before strangely shouting, “Hitler did nothing wrong.”
LaBeouf then appears to shove the man before the camera pans away. It was not clear if this was the same incident for which LaBeouf was arrested.
The actor was released on his own recognizance.
LaBeouf has stationed himself outside the museum since Trump’s inauguration as part of a participatory public art project that he and two partners intend to run throughout Trump’s presidency.
Members of the public are invited to join the livestreamed performance.
LaBeouf told the Associated Press this week that the project was not anti-Trump but rather “anti-division.”
“I’m just saying, ‘Be nice to each other,'” he said.
LaBeouf recently wrapped shooting on Janus Metz Pedersen’s “Borg/McEnroe,” a drama chronicling the 1980 Wimbledon final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe. LaBeouf plays McEnroe.