Kanye West was named a suspect in a battery investigation after a video appeared to show him grabbing a woman's phone and throwing it in the street, according to a report from TMZ published Friday.
According to the outlet, the incident took place near a sports
complex where West's daughter North was playing in a scheduled basketball
game. Per the outlet, deputies from the Ventura County Sheriff's Department
in California were called to the scene at 4:30 p.m. and obtained video
evidence of the incident.
The video, which was also shared by TMZ, begins with West
talking to a woman through the driver's side window of her car after the
woman used her phone to film the encounter at a stoplight. It's unclear if
the woman was a photographer or a bystander.
"Y'all ain't gonna
run up on me like that. If I say stop, stop with your cameras," West
said.
"I know, but Kanye, you're a celebrity," the woman
responded.
In the video, West then appears to take the woman's
phone from her hand and throws it in the street before approaching a man
with a camera near the rapper's car. The man can be heard apologizing before
West points at him and tells him to turn his camera off.
Representatives for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department and
West did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
In
another viral clip shared on Twitter Friday, West appeared to pull his car
up to another person to confront them for filming him. As of Saturday, the
video has 2.1 million views on the platform.
"You want me to be
running up on your kid's games like that?" the musician asks in the clip. "I
want to just see my kids. Everybody got to stop when I see my kids."
When the person said they weren't doing anything wrong by
filming him in a public place, West begins to drive away, adding, "It's
called human rights."
The incident marks the latest controversy
for West, who goes by "Ye," after he engaged in a string of anti-Semitic
rants throughout 2022.
