Rapper charged with assaulting police officer during downtown walk in his underwear

US rapper Lil Nas X has pleaded not blameworthy aft being charged with assaulting a constabulary serviceman portion walking successful downtown Los Angeles successful his underwear.

The musician, existent sanction Montero Lamar Hill, was taken to infirmary and arrested aft constabulary responded to reports of a bare antheral soon earlier 6am connected Thursday.

The territory attorney's bureau said connected Monday that Lil Nas X faces 3 counts of artillery with wounded connected a constabulary serviceman and 1 number of resisting an enforcement officer.

He was being held connected a $75,000 (£55,457) bail, conditional connected attending cause treatment. It is not instantly wide whether helium had posted it and been released yet.

He is acceptable to instrumentality to tribunal connected 15 September for his adjacent pre-trial hearing.

During the proceeding connected Monday, Hill's lawyer Christy O'Connor told the justice helium had led a "remarkable" life, adding: "Assuming the allegations present are true, this is an implicit aberration successful this person's life.

"Nothing similar this has ever happened to him."

A instrumentality enforcement root told Sky's US spouse network, NBC News, connected Thursday that the Old Town Road and Industry Baby hitmaker punched an serviceman doubly successful the look during the encounter.

The root added officers were unsure whether helium was connected immoderate substances oregon successful intelligence distress.

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NBC News cited TMZ footage wherever Hill was seen walking down the mediate of Ventura Boulevard astatine 4am connected Thursday successful a brace of achromatic briefs and cowboy boots.

In the videos, Hill tells a operator to "come to the party" successful 1 clip and successful different tells the person: "Didn't I archer you to enactment the telephone down?"

"Uh oh, someone's going to person to wage for that," Hill says arsenic helium continues to locomotion away.

In immoderate clips, Hill struts arsenic if he's connected a catwalk, posing for onlookers, and astatine 1 constituent helium places an orangish postulation cone connected his head.