TMZ has the now-released official police report detailing the night that Chris Brown brutally attacked then-girlfriend Rihanna in February. US Weekly released these officer notes back in March, and it looks like their story was accurate. The police version of the incident is consistent with many of the reports we heard from the press in the weeks following the attack. Brown smashed Rihanna’s face against the car window and punched her in the face repeatedly while he was driving. He also bit her ear, choked her until she almost lost consciousness and threatened to kill her. I got a little sick to my stomach reading that, so if you’re the squeamish sort you may want to skip it that link. Yesterday Brown was sentenced to serve five years of probation, during which he can have no contact with Rihanna, perform six months of community service, pay fines and take domestic violence education for a year.
US reports that Chris had two other domestic violence incidents with Rihanna before February. One in which he shoved Rihanna against a wall after she slapped him and another in which he broke the windows on his car in a rage:
According to a probation officer’s report filed with the court for Brown’s sentencing, the incidents “related to domestic violence.”
The first incident allegedly occurred in Europe three months earlier when Brown and Rihanna were in a “verbal dispute.” She slapped him, and Brown responded by shoving her into a wall, the report stated.
Just three weeks before his February arrest for beating and threatening his ex-girlfriend after the Grammy Awards, the former couple was in Rihanna’s native Barbados. While driving, they had an argument. According to the report, Brown got out and broke both the driver’s and front passenger side windows. No one was injured, and the incident was not reported to authorities.
[From US Weekly]
Brown is a man with anger control issues who will need more than just probation and community service to realize the error of his ways. His apology was half-assed and too late and he seems more concerned with his public image than the woman he hurt. I hope that his career suffers greatly and that we don’t hear much more from this guy now that he’s been sentenced.
Chris Brown is shown on 8/13/09. Credit: Fame Pictures
this guy should be boycotted. he does not deserve to have a career. he is repulsive. that half assed apology was pathetic.
wearing a toddler outfit.
I’m sick of these two.
What a piece of shit.
And that is a toddler outfit indeed.
The umbrella of “domestic” violence is a scam. Just because you’re in a relationship, you basically get a pass on disgustingly twisted, repugnant violence? He deserves some serious time behind bars for this, not the joke of probation he got. Where is the lesson for others here? And for him? He is repellent. And scary.
If she was my daughter, I would like him to be in jail forever!!!!!
why does he dress that way?
Well there you go, Hollywood rule of law if your famous you can do just about anything.
It seems that if a “famous” person gets caught braking the law in Cali they get a free pass, any other state seems to be a little harder on them.
He should have spent a year in the county jail.
I always thought he was cute but after this I find him so so ugly, he seems to like smirking in just about every picture that pops up.
Funny how not one person, hip-hop, actor, actress, that was caught on tape when this happened condemn him him for his actions, it was always no comment.
What a bunch of pussies they are, can speak out on politics but when one of them beats the crap out of his girlfriend it’s no comment.
Why are ppl believing TMZ this is the affidavit the judge threw out because this is considered hearsay…they are bringing this up like this is new they changed a few words but it’s basically the same….TMZ also stated that she was the aggressor that night hitting him repeatly before he struck her back they had a violent relationship they had two previous altercations…
One in Barbados where she stated she threw a pot plant at him and he was angry and he threw a rock at the window because he didn’t want to hit her…
Second in Europe where they got in another argument she stated she slapped him and he grabbed her arms and pushed her against the wall and told her to calm down…
these are the things she stated…now TMZ have another report of her statement where is Chris statement from the police when he turned himself in that night…where is his mugshot…
I’m not saying what he did was right by no means but they both have problems and the judge should have ordered her some anger classes too…
There are reports before this incident how she was hitting on him and like Whoopi said on the View one day you can have the sweetest guy in the world and you are hitting him one day he’s going to snap and it seem like this happened that night….
In Europe they get in an argument where she slaps him then he pushes her. She initiated the push with the slap. I don’t see how that gets held against him.
He was wrong with the other two incidents.
It doesn’t matter if she hit him first.
If their relationship was that violent then leave, you don’t turn around and hit someone, because they hit you.
You walk away from it and the relationship period.
How is this different from some one taking out a gun after an altercation in a club?
Just because he / she used their hands instead of an object does not change anything.
If you don’t like him, don’t buy his music. But there are always women who will think an abuser is just misunderstood, was just with the wrong girl, or was provoked to do what he did. Tina Turner and many other women, found this out the hard way. Let’s just hope whoever Chris Brown hooks up with in the future, doesn’t end up like Nicole Brown.
YOU DON’T HIT WOMEN – PERIOD
RESTRAIN THEM AND/OR WALK AWAY.
YEAH HE’S DOUCHETASTIC
He reminds me of Tyson, small amount of gratitude, his sentence was light, yet arrogant enough to repeat the offense.
Its not anger control issues. That implies that normal people get so angry that they have a desire to smash someones face into a window, but just control it.
Not true!
We all get angry but we all dont act like that, and only very few of us ever would even imagine doing something like that!. He has other, deeper issues of guilt, fear, shame and inferiority!
Well, getting hit back after hitting someone dosent make you a victim by default in my book. It just goes to show how incredibly stupid and stunted both parties are. And I’m willing to bet in the next few years when Rhianna starts to date again, Domestic violence is still going to follow her; she is just that type of girl who thrives in it, sort of the way Lindsay Lohan thrives on the drama in her life. Until that girl gets the Anger mngmnt classes she needs too, she is always going to be the ‘victim’ in her relationships.
she should not have hit him and he should have walked away. I dislike him a lot more but they both have issues.
Give me 6 minutes alone with him and he’ll never even look cross-eyed at another young woman.
Vitamin deficiency…
I’d be willing to see what you’d do Hieronyus Grex. Hope you don’t mind a sit in!
But I’m so over Brown and Rihanna. I feel like I should have extra sympathy for her but I don’t. I do feel bad for what happened to her but all those past reports that they would have a private meeting place is just disgusting. My sympathy ends when she repeats the habit.
he is a babyman, in every way…even his wardrobe.
yeeeccch, seems Kanye West is dressing him now. Nice out of style necklace, douche.
Team Hieronymus Grex! I’d love to see somebody rough his a$$ up like he does women. See what it feels like.
omg he looks like such a goon in that outfit..lol what a fugster!
Her alleged ‘violence’ is irrelevant. I would never advocate charges for something like the European slap/push exchange, but you don’t beat a woman to a pulp. Ever. If you’re having doubts, read the police report and imagine yourself in that car.
Florida girl, have you ever heard the legal specifics concerning self defense? If someone is hitting you repeatedly and you need to make them stop (say you’re in a car and you can’t just leave…) you are within the law to stop them. But you see, as soon as you keep hurting them once you have the upper hand, you are the aggressor and you are in the wrong. This specific incident is clear: he kept beating her, repeatedly. If he wanted her to stop, IF she was hitting him at all, he could have pulled over and gotten out of the car. Instead, he drove with one hand while punching her with the other.
Hmm, it’s very puzzling how people have piled on this guy. It’s good that people care about the abuse of women, but I do wish they’d care equally when a not so pretty, not so young woman gets abused.
Domestic violence is never ok, but why is Rihanna slapping him not emphasized? Just because she’s the weaker of the two it’s ok for her to provoke? Women are responsible for 50% of domestic abuse cases but for some reason no one ever talks about that.
she slapped him? this doesn’t surprise me – not that it’s okay now but a woan should not feel free to use violence because she’s a woman.
Mollination- there’s never a reason for well-muscled 200 pound man to forcibly strike a 110 pound woman- ever. I’ve restrained and held down a few, but never hit one and I’m a firm believer that there’s no one truly above an ass-whooping.
mollination… 50% of domestic abuse cases? really? I’d look up that statstic one more time if I were you because I have a feeling you pulled that out of your rectum…
MYTH: THE REAL PROBLEM IS COUPLES WHO ASSAULT EACH OTHER. WOMEN ARE JUST AS VIOLENT AS MEN.
FACT: A well-publicized study conducted by Dr. Murray Strauss at the University of New Hampshire found that women use violent means to resolve conflict in relationships as often as men. However, the study also concluded that when the context and consequences of an assault are measured, the majority of victims are women. The U.S. Department of Justice has found that 95% of the victims of spouse abuse are female. Men can be victims, but it is rare.
MYTH: WHEN THERE IS VIOLENCE IN THE FAMILY, ALL MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE DYNAMIC, AND THEREFORE, ALL MUST CHANGE FOR THE VIOLENCE TO STOP.
FACT: Only the batterer has the ability to stop the violence. Battering is a behavioral choice for which the batterer must be held accountable. Many battered women make numerous attempts to change their behavior in the hope that this will stop the abuse. This does not work. Changes in family members’ behavior will not cause the batterer to be non-violent.
MYTH: BATTERED WOMEN ARE MASOCHISTIC AND PROVOKE THE ABUSE. THEY MUST LIKE IT OR THEY WOULD LEAVE.
FACT: Victim provocation is no more common in domestic violence than in any other crime. Battered women often make repeated attempts to leave violent relationships, but are prevented from doing so by increased violence and control tactics on the part of the abuser. Other factors which inhibit a victim’s ability to leave include economic dependence, few viable options for housing and support, unhelpful responses from the criminal justice system or other agencies, social isolation, cultural or religious constraints, a commitment to the abuser and the relationship and fear of further violence. It has been estimated that the danger to a victim increases by 70% when she attempts to leave, as the abuser escalates his use of violence when he begins to lose control.
the above info and more can be found at http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/domviol/myths.htm
to the few of you who have demonstrated disturbing ignorance and a complete lack of empathy for others, please educate yourself on the issue. chris is his own person, and he made the decision to hit rihanna.
to the rest of you, thank you for your compassion and commitment to correcting these and other myths in our society.
Well, given that abusive men are also often verbally, emotionally, psychologically etc abusive in addition to the physical stuff…that “slap” may have been precipitated, who knows. And it would be somewhat irrelevant, were it not in context to the serious assault that followed, which got him the probation.
This does not surprise me in the least, as quite often by the time abuse gets to a serious physical incident, or reported to police, it’s the culmination of an ever worsening cycle of abuse. People rarely act the way he did in that car right out of the blue, particularly with how gratuitous he was with the violence.
Audrey, great post…I love information based on research and statistics rather than the stupid BS that comes out of the mouthes of some of these posters…
Lets introduce him to Pitt-Potty-head-always-drunk! They can play! They like the same dirty!
you know sometimes my own gender pisses me off… we wave around our size zero asses like it’s some massive accomplishment that gives us carte blanche to be nasty and mean to others… make excuses for a jerk who beat the shit out of a young lady and bitch and moan about other peoples’ cellulite and belly pudge while men are out there changing the world and making a difference… maybe if I were a guy and saw women in that light I might kick my own ass too??? :/
First- LMAO@Toddler outfit
Second- I love these ridiculous statistics people,as another poster said, pull out of their rectums. (Not the poster who had the myth/fact post, that was great!)
I said this in an earlier thread, I was a victim of a man who beat the hell out of me. I am petite and weigh 90lbs. I had a man 6ft tall 200lbs beating on me. I was never violent with him, never the aggressor and never even had the opportunity to try and hit him to defend myself. It is never okay to hit a woman, ever!
Thank God I was able to free myself of the low life bastard and not only save my own life, but save my family from having to deal with me potentially being killed by some idiotic man who could do nothing other than try to resolve problems with his fists, legs and head (I was head butted and saw stars!). I hate a woman beater. The fool I was with went to both Anger management and domestic violence classes and they did NOTHING for him. He went to jail for his actions and when he got out went on to beat another woman and was sentenced again to anger management and D.V classes.
I got away from him after he beat me on my birthday. I never looked back and got an order of protection against him, bought a gun (taking classes on how to safely use it) and luckily have a highway patrolman living down the road from me. There is no excuse for a man to ever use his fists against a woman, and anyone that thinks it is okay needs to get some help themselves.
Firestarter: why didn’t you leave after the first attacks? I’m really interested to hear your side of the story from a woman who alleges she was abused,…
*hugs Firestarter* I’m so sorry that happened to you! I’m glad you’re rid of that bastard now.
Audrey- I wish all posters were as well researched as you! Awesome post!!
I knew a guy who only got violent when he was drunk. There are alot of them out there. They are usually the ones instigating bar fights. I know it is not classified as domestic violence, but sometimes it carries over to the home.
The violent drunk enters the home and sees his wife sleeping. In his drunken stupor, he starts beating on her.
This violent drunk was my father.
hatsumomo:
Sometime by the time a man buts his hands on you he has destroyed your self esteem to the point of nothing and will have you believing that you deserve it.
I watched a episode of Oprah where she a had a woman on who husband had beaten her so down that she was afraid to do anything without his permission, at one point she has asked him if he wanted lunch and he went off on her, everything was caught on tape, because he had their son tape everything, they showed the verbal abuse which to me was just as sicking, I don’t think they showed you the actual beating but you saw her face all puffy and bruised.
She finally got out because she knew it was a matter of time before he killed her, an office mate helped her by noting and writing down every time she came to work looking like she was beaten.
She had three kids with this guy that witness everything and funny enough it was the older girl who blamed her mother the most (I think) and 2 younger sons.
Don’t forget that most abuse does not start with a slap but with words to get the victim ready for the onslaught for the beating.
Emotional, Verbal Physical, Mental.
There are some clips on youtube if you look it up
Hatsumomo- I do not “allege” I was abused, I WAS ABUSED. Why do you think he ended up in jail? Because I was lying and he was a nice guy?
Also, you don’t know the circumstances surrounding my relationship, nor how many times I was abused, so I will forgive your entire post.
I shared my story with people on this site to let others know that abuse, in any form, is never ok. I stayed longer than I should have because I was TERRIFIED and threatened with my home being burned down, my pets being killed, as well as myself. I had no help, until I helped myself and stopped being scared and a victim and did something about it and relied on law enforcement to do their part.
I do hope I have answered this question to your satisfaction, if not, too bad.
Thank you Ophelia. It’s all in the past and like I said, I do not look back.
Hatsumomo- Another thing, it is comments like yours, with the “alleged” attached to it that make some women not seek help in domestic violence situations, as they think that no one will believe them over the abuser.
In domestic violence situations, there is no “my side” of the story, there are the simple FACTS.
If you are female, I hope you do not find yourself in the situation I was in ever, and don’t say that it could not happen to you because you would never allow yourself to be in that situation. It can happen to ANY woman, of any educational, economic, social background. Any race, any age. It can happen to anyone!
@ Firestarter
It boggles the mind doesn’t it?
Some people don’t realize that abuse comes in more forms than just laying a hand on a person.
The most dangerous time for a woman is when she is planning on getting out of an abusive relationship, since it’s all about control and with the abuser losing not only control of the relationship but of the victim too.
Also the most dangerous time for women is when they are pregnant too. This is a proven fact that came to light after Lacey Petersen was murdered.
Maddie- YES! The worst time is when you decide to leave and seek help from friends, family or authorities because it only enrages the abuser all the more, and as you so perfectrly put it, they fear they are not in control any longer, and that is what it is all about: Control and domination.
It is very easy for people to judge others about why they stayed and for how long once the abuse began. Until you find yourself living that situation, you have no idea how you would react or how to handle it. This behavior, for me, was FOREIGN!
Until the one realtionship I had with an abuser, I had never had a man even speak harshly to me, so when this situation occured, I was shocked at how wrong I could have been about someone who played Mr.Nice guy for so long. I was horrified at getting involved with someone so vile and hated myself for my poor judgement and weakness once the violence started. I was under the impression after the first go around that when he said he was sorry and that it would never happen again, that it wouldn’t. HA! Then when he agreed to get help, I stayed to be supportive and thought the counseling and classes would work. Since I did not know this man’s past, save for what HE told me, I had no idea that violence was a major theme in his life. Once I saw that there was no change with his violent verbal outbursts, I decided to leave, but in doing so, I found out on my birthday how scary and hard that was going to be, but I did it. I did what I should have done before the bullshit counseling went on, I left, called the police and he ended up in trouble. He and his family blamed ME for his actions, but I came to find out that this was a pattern for him. His ex wife told me her tale as well as another ex girlfriend, who said she was too frightened to do what I ultimately did-Get the law involved.
I do not pretend that I did not fall victim to being stupid in this situation. The frequent verbal abuse should have clued me in, but he had me convinced I was the problem, not him. I should have dumped him the first time he ever touched me, but I didn’t and that is my fault. I did not stay for years but even a second is too long.
Sorry for the long post, but I am just sharing something that I was ashamed of for a long time, but now I am telling it because maybe it might help another woman or young girl have the strength to know that you can leave and there is help if you want it. No one deserves to be abused or threatened, ever. An abuser NEVER CHANGES. They never mean it when they say they are sorry, and they WILL do it again.
@ Firestarter
He and his family blamed ME for his actions, but I came to find out that this was a pattern for him. His ex wife told me her tale as well as another ex girlfriend, who said she was too frightened to do what I ultimately did-Get the law involved
Yes Yes and Yes, do you recall years ago that man in Boston I think that went on a killing spree when his gf finally found the courage to leave he after some of her family members and took I think her and some one else hostage.
His mother sat there on National TV and blamed his gf’s for putting up with the abuse.
Come to find out the his whole family history was mire in abuse doling it out and accepting it apparently.
It’s helps to get it out and to inform ignorant people of it’s always the victim of abuse fault for staying.
People still don’t get it in this day and age that it’s not just a boom, but little pops that lead the way to abuse.
Maddie- I vaguely remember that, but there are so many of these situations that go on anymore, it is the norm these days and not the exception!
Like I said in another thread, I hate those that are apologists for abusers. There is no excuse to be that way. I don’t care if the men themselves are victims of childhood abuse- GET HELP and break the cycle if that is your deal, do not assume that because you have power, a fist and a bigger voice that it means you can keep somebody under your rule. A healthy relationship is not ruled by a tyrant, it is ruled by no one, it is supposed to be equal and fair.
It is funny too, how once you are away from a situation and person that is toxic, you think so much more clearly and wonder how you ever allowed those things to take place or how you ever let someone make you feel less than what you are.
In my opinion what he did was wrong, but not only has he told us but he has also shown us that he is sorry.
I forgave him and i know he wont do anything like this again.
I love chris brown.
-keylani nicole
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