A man with a butcher knife stormed a Hollywood movie set in Brooklyn Friday night — and the same industry that lectures ordinary Americans on gun control and defunding police had to call the cops to save its own skin.
This is the double standard, live and unedited. The people who make millions pretending to be tough on screen can't handle a real-world threat without the very police they want to strip from your neighborhood. Meanwhile, they fund politicians working overtime to take away your right to defend yourself.
According to TMZ, Alex Perez, 23, disrupted filming of Michael B. Jordan's "Miami Vice '85" around 11 PM Friday, running across the Brooklyn set and brandishing a butcher's knife at a production staffer. Video obtained by TMZ shows Perez being escorted off by a staffer before pulling the large knife from his sweatshirt pocket. An NYPD officer arrested him at 11:17 PM. While in cuffs, Perez hurled the n-word at the production staff member who was threatened.
Perez has five prior arrests — for alleged gang-related activities, assault with a firearm, and burglary, among others. He was charged with menacing with a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. A repeat offender with a firearm rap sheet, loose on the streets, walking onto a production set with a blade. The system that Hollywood champions let him walk until he showed up on their doorstep.
Screen Rant, meanwhile, published a glossy profile of the same production — fawning over Jordan's "celebrated" Oscar win, the "stacked" cast, and the "42-year-old crime franchise" revival. Not a single word about the knife incident. The entertainment press would rather sell you a fantasy than report what actually happened on set. Screen Rant buried the reality; TMZ reported it.
The cast includes Austin Butler, John Leguizamo, Walton Goggins, and Danny Ramirez — all working behind security perimeter and armed guards that no working-class neighborhood in America could afford. Joseph Kosinski, fresh off Top Gun: Maverick, directs. The production films in Brooklyn, a city where the political class has spent years making it harder for law-abiding citizens to carry so much as pepper spray.
Hollywood wants your guns. Hollywood wants to defund your police. But when a man with a rap sheet and a butcher knife walks onto their set, they dial 911 and pray the cops arrive fast enough.
The question isn't why Perez had a knife on a movie set. The question is why the people who demand you be defenseless never intend to be defenseless themselves.
