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It's been almost a full week since Shia LaBeouf and his team set up the #HeWillNotDivideUs live stream. The plan is to have the camera streaming for the entirety of President Donald Trump’s four-year term.
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One of the earliest protesters at #HeWillNotDivideUs was a 22-year-old artist who goes by Paperboy The Prince and asked for safety reasons that BuzzFeed News refer to him as Paper.
Paperboy Prince of the Suburbs
Paper has appeared regularly with LaBeouf and was with the actor on Thursday night when he was arrested for allegedly scratching and punching a man who was at the #HeWillNotDivideUs event at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY.
Law enforcement arrived at the Museum of the Moving Image at 12:35 a.m. A New York Police Department spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that a dispute began between LaBeouf and a 25-year-old man from the Bronx.
The actor “pulled his scarf, scratched his face, and then punched him,” the spokesperson said. LaBeouf was charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment and was released a few hours later.
Paperboy Prince of the Suburbs
The NYPD spokesperson said the man LaBeouf assaulted was actually anti-Trump, not a Trump supporter, as widely reported on social media. But Paper told BuzzFeed News he thought the person who got into the altercation with LaBeouf appeared to be signaling alt-right groups online via the livestream.
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