Shia LaBeouf Arrested In NYC At His Anti-Donald Trump Livestream Art Project

NEW YORK CITY — Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested early Thursday morning outside of a Queens museum where he's set up a live stream art project encouraging people to protest Donald Trump's presidency.

LaBeouf "got into a dispute" with a 25-year-old male at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image around 12:35 a.m., the NYPD told Patch, when LaBeouf pulled the man's scarf, scratching his neck, and pushed the man.

The man flagged down an NYPD car, police said, and LaBeouf was placed under arrest. He was taken to the 114th precinct, where he was charged with assault and harassment, police said. LaBeouf was issued a desk appearance ticket; he is due in court in April.

It's unclear, police said, if the man whom LaBeouf pushed was pro- or anti-Trump or what their dispute was about.

LaBeouf has set up a livestream outside of the museum for an anti-Trump art project, where people are encouraged to look into the camera and say, "He will not divide us." It's been running since Inauguration Day, and celebrities such as Jaden Smith have made appearances in front of the camera.

You can see the livestream here.

"Open to all, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the participatory performance will be live-streamed continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency," the project's website says. "In this way, the mantra 'HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US' acts as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism, guided by the spirit of each individual participant and the community."

Earlier in the week, LaBeouf was seen on the livestream shouting forcefully into a Trump supporter's face.

"We're anti-division out here. Everyone's invited," LaBeouf told the Associated Press in an interview Monday (conducted in front of the camera). "I'm just saying, 'Be nice to each other.'"

At about 7:45 a.m. Thursday morning, the livestream showed a few 20-somethings, some sitting, some standing, in a grassy area outside the museum, chanting the refrain.

Earlier, a few news trucks were spotted on the street.

LaBeouf, followed by reporters and photographers, reportedly returned to the livestream site later Thursday morning.

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