{"id":416683,"date":"2010-03-11T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96176"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:29:58","slug":"richard-belzer-%e2%80%9claw-order-svu%e2%80%9d-star-accused-of-assaulting-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416683","title":{"rendered":"Richard Belzer, \u201cLaw &amp; Order: SVU\u201d Star, Accused Of Assaulting Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Richard-Beltzer-Assault-500x751.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Richard Beltzer Assault\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-96177\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s up with Sgt. John Munch?<em> Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/em> star Richard Belzer has been questioned by police in New York City after a Manhattan woman accused the 65-year-old actor of attacking her at an Apple Store on the Upper West Side. <\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a case for Benson &#038; Stabler&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-96176\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Milan Agnew, a 21-year-old aspiring dancer and recent college grad, claims she was busy working when Belzer &#8212; who previously starred on the now defunct NBC crime drama <em>Homicide<\/em> &#8212; entered the shop on Wednesday, grabbed her by the shoulders, and shook and choked her while yelling, &#8220;I need help!,&#8221; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2010\/03\/11\/2010-03-11_law_and_order_star_richard_belzer_accused_of_attacking_apple_store_employee.html\">The NY Daily News<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Agnew immediately called police and filed a harassment complaint, but she claims Belzer walked away with a slap on the wrist &#8212; this after reportedly telling officers he was &#8220;just joking.&#8221; Witnesses, on the other hand, say Belzer was behaving oddly in the moments leading up to the attack; with one noting that the TV cop walked in and out of the store and paced the block several times before &#8220;attacking&#8221; the store employee.<\/p>\n<p>Milan&#8217;s grandmother, Anita McKnight, is livid the actor will not face any charges, telling the newspaper, <em>&#8220;She told me, &#8216;Nana, he didn&#8217;t just touch me, he choked me and really scared me.&#8217; My granddaughter is petite, just 5-feet-2 and she&#8217;s a dancer so she doesn&#8217;t have much body to her. Where does this man come off putting his hands on her?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Belzer doesn&#8217;t get what all the fuss is about, saying simply: <em>&#8220;Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t have invaded her space, but it was clearly non-threatening.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/b2BPR7QbP4Qe0w0yV0GXRaQaTUA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/b2BPR7QbP4Qe0w0yV0GXRaQaTUA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/b2BPR7QbP4Qe0w0yV0GXRaQaTUA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/b2BPR7QbP4Qe0w0yV0GXRaQaTUA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up with Sgt. John Munch? Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit star Richard Belzer has been questioned by police in New York City after a Manhattan woman accused the 65-year-old actor of attacking her at an Apple Store on the Upper West Side. This sounds like a case for Benson &#038; Stabler&#8230;&#8230; Milan Agnew, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}