Chris Brown Posted ‘Free Tory’ Message Hours Before Arrest for 2023 Bottle Attack 

Chris Brown was arrested in the U.K. on Thursday, shortly after he shared a message of support for incarcerated rapper Tory Lanez. 

Chris Brown arrested in the U.K. 

On May 14, Brown, 36, took to social media to post about Lanez, who was recently hospitalized after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a California prison. “Free Tory!!!!!” Brown wrote on his Instagram Story. 

Earlier on the morning of May 15, Brown himself was taken into custody at a hotel in Manchester, the BBC reported. He’s being held on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm to music producer Abe Diaw. The R&B star is accused of assaulting Diaw at the Tape nightclub in London in February 2023. Diaw has said that Brown hit him over the head with a bottle, then punched and kicked him as he lay on the floor. 

The arrest comes ahead of Brown’s Breezy Bowl tour, which is scheduled to kick off in Amsterdam in early June. Brown was arrested shortly after he arrived in the U.K. via private jet, according to People.  

Chris Brown and Tory Lanez have worked together in the past 

Brown and Lanez have collaborated on several tracks in the past, including “The Take” and “Feels.” Both also have a troubled history with women. 

In 2009, Brown was arrested after violently attacking his then-girlfriend Rihanna. He was sentenced to five years probation. Since then, he’s had multiple other run-ins with the law and has been accused by several people of rape and assault.   

In 2023, Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he shot Megan Thee Stallion after a party at Kylie Jenner’s house in 2020. On Monday, May 12, Lanez (whose real name is Daystar Peterson) was hospitalized after being stabbed 14 times by another inmate at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, California. 

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