The shocking moment unfolded on live TV in front of millions, Will Smith taking the stage at the 94th Oscars and slapping comedian Chris Rock over a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada.
BELLONI’S CENTRAL TAKE: "It was an emergency meeting. There's a 54 member board that governs the academy and it comes from all different branches... It was very heated. They wanted answers. This was hugely embarrassing and angering to many Academy members who believe that Will Smith, essentially, hijacked the show and did innumerable damage to the Oscars' brand with what he did.
But I told Sheriff Villanueva what I would do on day one, is if a case like that came up again, the California Attorney General can come in, in fact, has the constitutional duty, to come into any jurisdiction where a prosecutor is not doing his duty and take over that prosecution. I told him that if I was the Attorney General would come in with the Attorney General's Office and take over a prosecution like that if George Gascon refused to do it….
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