{"id":1058,"date":"2025-12-06T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:05:49","slug":"american-rapper-lil-nas-x-pleads-not-guilty-of-alleged-assault-of-police-officer-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"American rapper Lil Nas X pleads not guilty of alleged assault of police officer in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\">\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong class=\"published\"><span id=\"publishDate\" class=\"value-title\" title=\"2025-08-30\"\/>Saturday, August 30, 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"Z3988\" style=\"display:none\" title=\"ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rfr_id=rfr_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:User%3ADendodge&amp;rft_id=info:sid\/en.wikinews.org:American_rapper_Lil_Nas_X_pleads_not_guilty_of_alleged_assault_of_police_officer_in_Los_Angeles&amp;rft.atitle=American+rapper+Lil+Nas+X+pleads+not+guilty+of+alleged+assault+of+police+officer+in+Los+Angeles&amp;rft.jtitle=Wikinews&amp;rft.date=2025-08-30&amp;rft.aucorp=Wikinews+contributors&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.rights=CC-BY+2.5&amp;rft.identifier=%2F%2Fen.wikinews.org%2Fwiki%2FAmerican_rapper_Lil_Nas_X_pleads_not_guilty_of_alleged_assault_of_police_officer_in_Los_Angeles&amp;rft.artnum=-\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"infobox noprint desktop-only\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right; width: 200px; background: #edf7ff; border: solid #666666 1px; padding: 0px; font-size: x-small; clear:right;\">\n<p>Related articles<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mw-halign-center\" typeof=\"mw:File\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Scale_of_justice_2.svg\" class=\"mw-file-description\" title=\"Crime and law\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Crime and law\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/250px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"173\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/330px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 1.5x, https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0e\/Scale_of_justice_2.svg\/500px-Scale_of_justice_2.svg.png 2x\" data-file-width=\"204\" data-file-height=\"208\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Crime and law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Collaborate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"mw-default-size mw-halign-left\" typeof=\"mw:File\/Thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/File:Lil_Nas_X_Talks_About_Gaining_His_Father%27s_Acceptance,_Growing_Up_in_Atlanta,_%26_FINDING_HIMSELF_7-32_screenshot_(headshot).jpg\" class=\"mw-file-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Lil_Nas_X_Talks_About_Gaining_His_Father%27s_Acceptance%2C_Growing_Up_in_Atlanta%2C_%26_FINDING_HIMSELF_7-32_screenshot_%28headshot%29.jpg\/250px-Lil_Nas_X_Talks_About_Gaining_His_Father%27s_Acceptance%2C_Growing_Up_in_Atlanta%2C_%26_FINDING_HIMSELF_7-32_screenshot_%28headshot%29.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"mw-file-element\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/8a\/Lil_Nas_X_Talks_About_Gaining_His_Father%27s_Acceptance%2C_Growing_Up_in_Atlanta%2C_%26_FINDING_HIMSELF_7-32_screenshot_%28headshot%29.jpg\/500px-Lil_Nas_X_Talks_About_Gaining_His_Father%27s_Acceptance%2C_Growing_Up_in_Atlanta%2C_%26_FINDING_HIMSELF_7-32_screenshot_%28headshot%29.jpg 1.5x\" data-file-width=\"719\" data-file-height=\"959\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Lil Nas X in 2025 <br \/><span style=\"font-size:90%\" class=\"plainlinks\">Image: HOTSPOTATL.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On August 25, 2025, US <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/hip_hop\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:hip hop\">hip hop<\/a><\/span> artist <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montero_Lamar_Hill\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Montero Lamar Hill\">Montero Lamar Hill<\/a><\/span>, better known by his stage name Lil Nas X, plead not guilty to assault of a police officer after four new felony charges were brought against him that day in <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_County\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Los Angeles County\">Los Angeles County<\/a><\/span>. Three of the charges were for battery, and the remaining charge was for <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/resisting_arrest\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:resisting arrest\">resisting arrest<\/a><\/span>. Hill faces years in prison if convicted for the offenses.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hill was initially arrested in <span class=\"interwiki-link-local\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Los Angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a><\/span> on August 21, 2025. The incident started after police responded to reports of a man walking nude in the street on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City. Upon arrival, police stated that Hill charged at the officers and allegedly struck one of them twice in the face. He was then taken into custody on suspicion of battery on a police officer. He was hospitalized briefly for a possible overdose before being booked at a county jail. He &#8220;spent the weekend in jail&#8221; before appearing in court to answer for his charges on Monday, according to <i>People Magazine<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported as a misdemeanor, and Lil Nas X was believed to have possibly been experiencing a mental health crisis or under the influence, though those details are not confirmed. Months prior to the incident, he disclosed on social media that the previous  had been particularly &#8220;difficult&#8221; for him. He was quoted saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m just now, like arriving to this place of feeling confidence in myself and what I&#8217;m doing. And I&#8217;m trying to make sure I put intention towards my music and my vision and the creativity of it all.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Hill&#8217;s bail was set at $75,000. He would be required to attend <span class=\"interwiki-link-foreign\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narcotics_Anonymous\" class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Narcotics Anonymous\">Narcotics Anonymous<\/a><\/span> in the event of his release.\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 id=\"Sources\">Sources<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nParsed by mw&#8208;web.codfw.main&#8208;c6c4f4c4&#8208;kf7m5\nCached time: 20251206081728\nCache expiry: 604800\nReduced expiry: true\nComplications: [vary&#8208;revision&#8208;sha1]\nCPU time usage: 0.164 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.270 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 1477\/1000000\nRevision size: 3663\/2097152 bytes\nPost&#8208;expand include size: 37603\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 13918\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 23\/100\nExpensive parser function count: 11\/500\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0\/20\nUnstrip post&#8208;expand size: 4341\/5000000 bytes\nLua time usage: 0.052\/10.000 seconds\nLua memory usage: 1680810\/52428800 bytes\nNumber of Wikibase entities loaded: 0\/500\n--><br \/>\n<!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%  228.975      1 -total\n 67.97%  155.625      1 Template:Crime_and_law\n 67.23%  153.950      2 Template:Infobox\n 66.50%  152.260      1 Template:Infobox\/p1\n 65.87%  150.831      1 Template:Infobox\/p2\n 39.77%   91.055     15 Template:Evalx\n 33.20%   76.025     14 Template:Infobox\/lookup\n 30.93%   70.818      1 Template:Infosection\n 13.80%   31.589      1 Template:InfoboxStart\n 12.99%   29.752      1 Template:Publish\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwikinews:stable-pcache:3020990:|#|:idhash:canonical and timestamp 20251206081728 and revision id 4876262. 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