Chris Brown: Battery charges dropped after alleged attack in Florida
Singer has faced a number of charges over the past few years
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Your support makes all the difference.Charges of felony battery against US singer Chris Brown have been dropped, one year after he was arrested after a concert in West Plam Beach, Florida.
The incident involved an alleged attack at a nightclub in Tampa in 2017. Brown was accused of punching the club's photographer, who was reportedly taking pictures of him after being told not to.
The photographer suffered a split lip, and later went to hospital and pressed charges.
Pitchfork reports that the charges have now been dropped, according to Hillsborough County court records.
Brown has faced a number of charges in recent years, including one regarding an aggravated rape allegation by a French woman in January this year.
Brown was arrested in Paris, and filed a defamation suit against his accuser several days after the charge.