Actor Shia LaBeouf pleads guilty to simple battery for New Orleans Mardi Gras incident

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]STORMS AND SHOW YOU A BETTER DAY TOMORROW.

[00:00:03]COMING UP HERE ON WDSU NEWS.

[00:00:05]THIS IS BREAKING NEWS ON NEWS AT NOON.

[00:00:08]WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS AS ACTOR SHIA LABEOUF PLEADS GUILTY TO THREE COUNTS OF SIMPLE BATTERY, ALL STEMMING FROM A MARDI GRAS FIGHT IN THE MARIGNY WDSU REPORTER AND ANCHOR TRAVERS MACKEL JUST SPOKE WITH LABEOUF’S ATTORNEY AND HAS MORE ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT THAT HE’S GETTING.

[00:00:27]YEAH, IT’S A STORY WE BROKE ABOUT 90 MINUTES AGO.

[00:00:31]SHIA LABEOUF PLEADING GUILTY TO THREE MISDEMEANOR OFFENSES OF SIMPLE BATTERY.

[00:00:35]AS FOR THE PUNISHMENT, HE WILL DO NO JAIL TIME.

[00:00:38]THIS IS PROBATION AND HE WILL HAVE TO ATTEND ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES.

[00:00:43]BUT INSIDE THIS COURTROOM ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO, SHIA LABEOUF WALKED IN AND PLED GUILTY TO MISDEMEANOR CRIMES.

[00:00:50]NOW TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO.

[00:00:52]THIS ALL STEMS FROM A MARDI GRAS MORNING INCIDENT, A REALLY EARLY MARDI GRAS MORNING INCIDENT AT THE R BAR IN THE MARIGNY.

[00:01:00]SHIA LABEOUF WAS PICKED UP, ACCUSED OF BATTERY.

[00:01:03]PATRONS THERE SAY HE WAS UNRULY AND WAS TRYING TO PICK FIGHTS WITH SOME OF THEM.

[00:01:08]AFTER POLICE GOT THERE, THEY ACCUSED LABEOUF, THE WELL-KNOWN ACTOR, OF STRIKING SOMEONE, POSSIBLY IN THE FACE.

[00:01:14]HE WAS ALSO.

[00:01:15]THERE WAS ALSO CHATTER.

[00:01:17]I SHOULD SAY, THAT LABEOUF MAY HAVE USED HOMOPHOBIC SLURS, AND THERE WAS CHATTER THAT IT SHOULD BE A HATE CRIME, BUT NONETHELESS, NONE OF THAT WAS BROUGHT OUT TODAY.

[00:01:28]HE PLED GUILTY TO THREE MISDEMEANORS OF SIMPLE BATTERY AND WILL DO NO JAIL TIME, JUST PROBATION AND ANGER MANAGEMENT.

[00:01:35]WE TALKED TO HIS LAWYER.

[00:01:37]SHE TELLS US LABEOUF, THE ACTOR TOOK FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND JUST WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD.

[00:01:43]SHIA LABEOUF YOU KNOW, FROM THE BEGINNING, HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE DID PLAY A PART IN WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.

[00:01:49]HE HAS WANTED TO TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR WHAT HAPPENED, AND HE CAME TO COURT AT HIS ARRAIGNMENT, PLANNING TO DO SO.

[00:01:56]IS THIS A CASE OF SOMEBODY HAVING TOO MUCH FUN AT MARDI GRAS?

[00:01:59]AND THINGS JUST WENT SOUTH QUICKLY.

[00:02:02]THIS HAPPENED AT A BAR ON MARDI GRAS AFTER MIDNIGHT.

[00:02:06]I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT ALCOHOL PLAYED A ROLE IN THIS ON ALL SIDES.

[00:02:13]SO LABEOUF DOES LIVE UPTOWN.

[00:02:15]HE MOVED TO NEW ORLEANS ABOUT A YEAR AGO.

[00:02:17]AGAIN, HE WILL HAVE TO DO PROBATION AND ANGER MANAGEMENT.

[00:02:21]WE TALKED TO THE LAWYER FOR THE VICTIM IN THIS CASE, THOSE VICTIMS WERE HERE ATTENDING THIS CONFERENCE AND THIS HEARING VIA ZOOM.

[00:02:28]HERE IS WHAT THAT LAWYER TELLS US ON BEHALF OF HIS CLIENT.

[00:02:31]THE VICTIM SAYS THE DEFENDANT IN THIS MATTER, SHIA LABEOUF, HAS BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO BETTER.

[00:02:36]TO BE BETTER.

[00:02:37]IT IS OUR HOPE IS THE HOPE OF MR. KLEIN, THE VICTIM HERE AND OUR ENTIRE TEAM, THAT THE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT, SENSITIVITY TRAINING AND ANGER MANAGEMENT WILL BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THAT THE DEFENDANT WILL MAKE USE OF THE SKILLS THAT HE LEARNS IN THE FUTURE.

[00:02:54]SO, RANDI, IT APPEARS THIS MATTER IS COMPLETELY WRAPPED UP HERE TODAY INVOLVING ACTOR SHIA LABEOUF.

[00:02:59]WE’LL HAVE MUCH MORE COMING UP AT 4:00 FOR NOW.

[00:03:02]REPORTING AT CRIMINAL COURT.