"Chris Rock doesn't want that..." and "Rock has made it clear..."

Producer Will Packer blames the victim: 

"It happened to be right before the Best Actor award.  Shayla told me that they were about to physically remove Will Smith,  And I had not been a part of those conversations.  And so... I immediately went to the Academy leadership that was on site and I said..., 'Chris Rock doesn't want that.' "  

I said, "Rock has made it clear that he does not want to make a bad situation worse."  That was Chris's energy.  His tone was not retaliatory.  His tone was not aggressive and angry.  And so I was advocating what Rock wanted in that time, which was not to physically remove Will Smith at that time.  Because, as it has now been explained to me, that was the only option at that point.  It has been explained to me that there was a conversation that I was not a part of, to ask him to voluntarily leave..."

Don't think Chris is gonna keep passively playing along.  It's not a good look for him.  To take the beating publicly is one thing, but to agree that the aggressor gets to stay?  Remember my comparison to two public schoolboys?  Since when does the victim get to forgive the batterer in the moment, and "agree" to let him stay?  They used to do that with domestic abuse, before they made the cops start mandatorily arresting and letting the facts come out later.

A lot of people in the media -- Frank Bruni, for one -- were pushing for the Alec Baldwin killing to go away, just like they are downplaying Chris Rock's assault on stage in front of everyone.

Again, I don't think Chris Rock is going to continue tolerating this treatment.  And all the advocates in the world for burying what Will Smith, or Alec Baldwin did to themselves, are still living in olden times, me thinks...

Carry on, but let's not pretend either of these Hollywood stories is going away.  Not in these woke times. #JusticeForAll