'Drake
did it!' Chris Brown talks to cops as it's claimed rival
threw glass then bottle
Brown's
attorney claims evidence has been handed to police that
clearly nails Drake
Chris Brown has
told police that Drake kicked off Thursday's nightclub
chaos over Rihanna, his
attorney has revealed.
"I turned over evidence that clearly demonstrates
that it is Drake who instigated all of this. I think
it's clear that the cops view Chris, (bodyguard) Pat and
(girlfriend) Karrueche as victims," said attorney Mark
Geragos.
Drake threw a glass and then the champagne bottle, a source
close to the case added.
Brown received “numerous” stiches and Karrueche, his
girlfriend Karrueche Tran, was treated for a concussion.
Bodyguard Big Pat, who was taken to Bellevue, had 18
stiches to treat his head injury, the source added.
Bullets as well as bottles may have been flying at
Manhattan hotspot where a mad melee erupted over Rihanna,
police said Friday.
“We are investigating the possibility of gunshots fired at
the club,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. “We have
several eyewitnesses telling detectives they heard what
they believed to be shots fired during the disturbance. We
have several witnesses who said they heard a sound they
believed was a gunshot.”
NBA STAR TONY PARKER TAKES SHARD OF GLASS
TO THE EYE DURING BRAWL
So far, however, cops have found no evidence at the
W.I.P. club in SoHo to back up the claims, sources
said.
Meanwhile Rihanna, the sexy singer who sparked the fierce
fracas between the posses of rapper Drake and R&B
singer Chris Brown, was spotted living it up Thursday night
at yet another club with some girlfriends and celebrity
pals.
Joining Rihanna at The 40/40 club on West 25th St., which
is owned by the rapper Jay-Z, were celebrity friends
Maxwell and Trey Songz.
Both men had been at W.I.P. the night before when Team
Brown and Team Drake duked it out.
Among the injured was NBA star Tony Parker, who told
TMZ.com that he got hit in one eye with shards of broken
glass.
At least four others at W.I.P. were injured by broken glass
after clubgoers began hurling bottles and bashing each
other with them.
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Twitter photo of Chris Brown showing a cut on his chin
after an alleged fight with Drake.
As police probed the bloody violence, City Council Speaker
Christine Quinn called for an emergency meeting with the
NYPD and representatives of the “nightlife industry” to
find ways to prevent patrons from using liquor bottles as
weapons.
“The purpose of this meeting is to send a clear message to
all nightclub patrons that bottles cannot be used as
weapons,” Quinn said.
Earlier Friday, police arrested the Jonathan Cantor, who
manages the joint upstairs from W.I.P.
club.
Cantor, 46, of Livingston, N.J., was busted after police
responding to neighbors complaining about the noise at his
club, Greenhouse, discovered he had two outstanding
warrants, they said.
Jonathan
Cantor, Manager of Club WIP, is taken from the 1st Precinct
to Cen tral Booking after his arrest on outstanding
warrants.
Cantor was hit with a summons for blocked fire exits at
Greenhouse and a liquor code violation after fruit flies
were found in bottles of liquor, sources
said.
The outstanding warrants were for previous
bar-related citations going back to 2003 that were never
settled.
So far Cantor and the club have been mum about every aspect
of the fight, which left Brown with a chunk of skin missing
from his chin, his bodyguard with his head split open, and
an Australian tourist needing 16 stitches to close the gash
in her head.
But police are likely to use Cantor’s legal woes as
leverage to pry out information.
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Brown, his model girlfriend Karrueche Tran, and injured
bodyguard have been questioned by police, but the singer —
apparently fearful of being labeled a snitch — is now
insisting he never saw Drake inside the
club.
This despite Brown’s tweets after the brouhaha in
which he directed insults at Drake for “Throwing
bottles at girls” and “hiding in the
bathroom.”
Those Tweets and the photo of Brown’s battered chin were
later removed.
Drake’s rep has issued a statement insisting that the
hip-hop star “did not participate in any wrongdoing of any
kind.” He has not yet been questioned by
police.
Police are continuing to review security video from the
club and its ID entrance system that logs the name of every
guest. They have not yet charged anybody with a
crime.
Also, a Long Island lawyer named Steven Gaitman was the
first out of the box with the announcement that he is
suing the club and the warring posses on behalf of
Howard Clement of Brooklyn, who said he was hurt in the
fight.
Gaitman gave few details about his client or how he was
hurt.
“As far as the extent of his injury, Howard is seeking
medical attention and we decline to comment further at this
time,” said Gaitman, whose past clients include a Port
Authority cop who claimed 9/11 trauma made him videotape an
11-year-old girl taking a shower.
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A female clubber shows off her injuries after she was hit
by a flying bottle in the alleged nightclub brawl between
Chris Brown and Drake's entourages.
The festering feud between Brown, 23, who is on probation
for beating songstress Rihanna, and Drake, 25, who dated
Rihanna after she dumped Brown, erupted into open warfare
Thursday in the packed club.
It began after Drake, who arrived with a 15-member
entourage, rejected a peace offering from Brown — a $2,000
bottle of Ace of Spades champagne.
The rejection was accompanied by a nasty note, police
sources said.
It read: “I’m still f------ Rihanna.”
The Greenhouse bar in Soho.
Witnesses said Drake, who was sitting on the other side of
the club, also flipped the bird at
Brown.
Minutes later, the witnesses said, five members of Drake’s
crew peeled off their shirts and went after Brown, who had
been partying with Tran and his posse.
Brown was reportedly punched in the face and cracked with a
bottle. Cops said he tried to leave, but Drake’s peeps
blocked his path.
More bottles began flying like missiles through the club,
showering partygoers with glass shards.
Aussie Megan Cassidy, 23, took one to the head and was
knocked unconscious.
Cops were summoned by a 911 call made at 4:16 a.m.
Thursday. By the time they got there, the club was in
shambles — and both Brown and Drake were
gone.
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