Man who attacked Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl facing 270 days in jail after no-contest plea
A man who attacked comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl in May has pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor count each of battery and entering a restricted area during a live event.
The plea came about 1 1/2 months after a judge rejected the defense's request for a diversion program that could have eventually resulted in the dismissal of the charges against Lee, who remains behind bars in connection with an unrelated case in which he is charged with stabbing his roommate at a transitional housing facility last year.
The suspect tried to scramble backstage after the attack, but he was forcefully subdued by security. Subsequent footage showed the bloodied assailant with facial bruises and a seemingly broken arm being placed on a gurney and taken away in an ambulance.
Chappelle, during a subsequent performance at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, told the crowd he was able to speak to the attacker before he was taken away by paramedics. The comedian said the suspect claimed to have carried out the attack to raise awareness of the plight of his grandmother in Brooklyn, who was displaced from her home due to "gentrification."
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