Las Vegas police announced on Monday (July 31) that they have opened an investigation for assault and battery, a few days after the release of a video showing rapper Cardi B throwing her microphone at her audience during a concert in Las Vegas. July 29.
In the images, which quickly went viral on social networks, the interpreter of WAP and Money takes revenge by throwing the object in the direction of a spectator who threw the contents of his cup at him. In the videos, the person who threw the liquid apologizes as concert security intervenes. Other videos appear to show the singer missing her target in retaliation and the mic landing on another audience member.
After these events, Las Vegas police confirmed that a woman contacted them to report an assault. “According to the victim, she was attending an event on July 29, 2023, at a property located in the 3500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard,” she explained in a statement sent to the American press. “During a concert, she was hit by an object thrown from the stage.” The police statement does not mention Cardi B’s name, but the date and location match her performance.
This is not the first time that an artist has been the target of throwing objects on stage. Lately, incidents have multiplied during concerts. In June, a man threw a phone at singer Bebe Rexha during a concert in New York, which landed the singer in the hospital.
That same month, singer Pink was targeted during a performance in London by an onlooker who threw a bag at her purporting to contain her mother’s ashes. Last year, Harry Styles interrupted the concert he was giving in New York, after being targeted by a chicken nugget from the crowd. In December, Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose pledged to stop throwing his microphone into the audience at the end of a concert after a fan was injured in Australia.