Christian Bale Free After Arrest for Alleged Assault

“He was released from the Belgravia precinct station later in the afternoon with a 10-man police escort, in a blacked-out silver Mercedes people carrier. Bale is to return to police in September, pending further inquiry, a police spokesperson tells PEOPLE.”

“It is a policy in England to arrest a suspect before questioning him in connection to a possible crime. Bale has not been formally charged.”

Having spent two months in London, things are a little topsy turvy than what we yanks are used to.

I remember seeing bobbies not even cocking an eyebrow when some drunken bugger walked past me in a park with a open container just carrying on being verbally abusive to anyone who walked past him.

I almost got arrested in Hyde PArk - for get this…. SITTING on a lawn chair that supposedly reserved for people associated with royality. I was supposed to pay a fee and I didn’t have the change on me. The guy threatened to call the police on me.

I ran for my life.

As for Bale,

It wasn’t him. They got the wrong man

They didn’t think of questioning Matt Hagan - who’s probably jealous of Bale’s success.

Goddamn Clayface strikes again.

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Coat

Netflixed! Thanks for the reminder, Tom.

You take a shot at him for Swing Kids but let Newsies and Reign of Fire slide?

In this case, it’s been further reported that it’s alleged “verbal assault”. No physical charges. Although I have a feeling most people have already assumed what they’re going to and no actual facts will get in the way of that.

Not sure if British police operate differently, but any arrest is required to have accompanying arrest reports, which are required to give specifics on the incident (i.e. his family’s statement). There’s so little info available yet that this is not really even worth commenting on.

As Mr. Palmiotti said, let’s just hold on a second before convicting the guy ourselves.

Reports now are confirming that, at worst, this might have been verbal assault, and that Bale has cooperated fully and given his account of the events. Other reports have stated that there is some kind of family tension involved which none of us are privy to. Though I’m sure we’ll end up knowing way more about it than we should because of all this.

I don’t like to assume anything about anyone in these kinds of dodgy reports because we simply don’t know anything about the relationships, the circumstances, or even what “assault” was actually referring to. Verbal assault isn’t exactly fun but it’s a far cry from what I’ve seen people accusing him of with no information at all.

Reports now are confirming that, at worst, this might have been verbal assault, and that Bale has cooperated fully and given his account of the events. Other reports have stated that there is some kind of family tension involved which none of us are privy to. Though I’m sure we’ll end up knowing way more about it than we should because of all this.

I don’t like to assume anything about anyone in these kinds of dodgy reports because we simply don’t anything about the relationships, the circumstances, or even what “assault” was referring to. Verbal assault isn’t exactly fun but it’s a far cry from what I’ve seen people accusing him of with no information at all.

And Tucker’s right: if he’s been arrested, not charged, at this time, one should speak of the *alleged* assault.