Offset charged with Felony for Smacking Phone out of a Fan’s Hand

Offset is facing a felony charge for allegedly damaging a fan’s phone.

 

What We Know:

  • Inside a Target in Sandy Springs, GA, 18-year-old Junior Gibbons, pulled out his phone and began recording the rapper as he was exiting the store.
  • Instead of getting the perfect video with the rapper, Gibbons claims he ended up with a cracked phone.
  • In the video shown below, Offset appears to slap the phone out of the fan’s hand as the fan was attempting to record him.
  • The felony charge is for criminal damage of property due to the phone costing $800, according to TMZ.
  • This is not Offset’s first run in with the law as he is currently facing felony gun charges from a 2018 Georgia arrest.

Was the fan’s action an invasion of privacy?