Oscars producer says police prepared to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock

In his first public comments since the shocking episode that marred Hollywood’s most important evening, Will Packer said he had sat with Rock when officers came to speak to him.

“They were saying, you know, this is battery … They said we will go get him, we are prepared, we are prepared to get him right now, you can press charges, we can arrest him, you have – they were laying out the options,” Packer told ABC Television.

“Chris was – he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘I’m fine.’”

Los Angeles police “officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘You know, would you like us to take any action?’ and he said ‘No.’”

Police in Los Angeles said on Sunday that Rock had declined to file a report.