Will Smith resigns from the Academy. While Will Packer, the Oscars top producer, is sharing his insight into what unfolded as police arrived after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. Packer tells ABC News that Smith, who was seated in the front row, was ultimately allowed to stay because Packer thought Rock didn’t want to make a bad situation worse.
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Will Smith acted “a thug,” plain & simple! I will never hold him in the high esteem I once had… Chris Rock & his astonishing “CLASS” has totally replaced him!!💯👍🏻
Sigh 😔 oh, Will. Unbelievable stuff. A lot of people used to look up to Smith
Here’s my take – Will Smith had great success at a young age. He’s been insulated for most of his life being schmoozed and fawned over. He’s emotionally stunted. Feel sorry for him really.
The big winners of the night were the publicists.
Packer disgusting spineless, blaming Chris for will not being removed.
Academy is a bunch of frauds. Won't do anything, especially now that Will Smith resigned.
RESIGNATION…lolol😂 so what!
lame pre-emptive move to keep award that should be REVOKED!
— OUT TODAY ACADEMY LIED!! Chris never asked if he wanted Will escorted out!
Most personally humiliating, career-ending, expensive punch in TV history!
Hollywood gone nutty. But hey, that's Hollywood.
When someone violently attacks your employee, you don't ask them if it's OK if the offender stays or not. Chris Rock should sue this guy too IMO.
Weird were still talking about🤔
Give back your oscar. You don't deserve it…..no class, shameless
The day has come when humor is no longer an escape…with this overly sensitive bunch…start watching the Dean Martin celebrity roasts and see how tame that joke truly was……omg I have to live in a world where people can't even take a joke anymore!!!!!!!
Perhaps this was a staged event to help bolster the plummeting Oscar ratings.
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Will Packer and other Oscar producers are cowards!
Chris deserved it..very cruel joke 🤮
Wow no manner inside of this even he do that must be remove him of this society , people watching all over the world it very arrogant person .
As a newspaper editor, I edit court copy every week, and once in a while see assault cases where the victim didn't want to press charges – but it doesn't matter.
If a crime is known about, it's not a question of what the victim wants – it's about upholding the law that was known to be broken.
In this case, despite their collapse in popularity and relevancy in recent years, the Oscars are still watched by many millions around the world – so there are literally millions of witnesses to Smith's assault.
Chris Rock not pressing charges is irrelevant – that was a broadcast assault, and the police and legal system should be acting accordingly.
Otherwise it suggests a two-tier legal system where a rich actor can just sit down again after assaulting someone, while everyone else there who just clapped him and partied away with him later showed moral cowardice.
Sure, if my wife or husband was the subject of an insensitive joke like that, I'd probably feel like slapping or punching the bejesus out of Rock too – still, assault is assault, and while circumstances may mitigate the outcome, and the justice system may take a lenient view of matters, he should still at the very least face the consequences, as any citizen should, and let the law decide an appropriate outcome.
That is how you treat bulling
Will Smith didn’t assault Chris rock….he just launched a Special Hand Kiss Operation
This is 🇺🇸..not. 🇺🇦..you cannot walk away in the HOOD..OR..WAR like that..need to pay the price..go to jail..+..Sue..like 🇺🇸..