Cops want to talk to the guy Akon tossed into the crowd at concert


Cops are looking for a guy tossed by rapper Akon into the crowd at a Fishkill, NY concert over the weekend. In a widely circulated clip, of which there are at least two different versions recorded by people at the show, shown below, Akon asks for an audience member, presumably a guy who threw something at him, to be brought up on stage with him. Akon then takes off his wife beater and jewelry as if he’s gearing up for a fight while the crow cheers. People put the kid up on the stage as Akon asked, and he chucks him unexpectedly back into the crowd on the other side.

Akon is heard yelling something about how nobody shuts him down, and says “Now, getting back to what I was saying.” He tries to assure the shocked crowd with “he’s all right.”

Without getting a statement from the victim, cops can’t press charges against Akon. They say they are looking for him so that they figure out if Akon’s toss was a crime.

Detective Lt. John Berlingieri of the Fishkill Police said officers were looking for the young man at the Sunday concert who was plucked from the audience by a security guard, directed to the sage, then thrown back to the crowd, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports.

“We’re trying to identify that kid, just to find out whether or not we have any kind of criminal offense,” Berlingieri told the paper. “We are looking to speak to him. No victim. No crime.”

[From People.com]

This is not the first time Akon was busted behaving badly while in concert. He was videotaped dry humping a 14 year-old preacher’s daughter at an April concert in Trinidad. He lured several women on stage with him with the false promise of winning a trip to Africa and then assaulted the teen. Akon later apologized for the incident after sponsor Verizon pulled out of his tour with Gwen Stefani.

Here are the two clips of Akon’s tossing incident:

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