Miami Beach, FL — Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, born December 22, 1991, better known as DaBaby, is an American rapper and songwriter from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is best known for his singles "Suge" and "Bop", peaking at numbers seven and eleven respectively on the Billboard Hot 100. Along with the success of "Suge", his debut studio album Baby on Baby peaked at number 7 on the Billboard 200. He released his second studio album, Kirk, months later, which debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his first album to top the chart. The music video for "Suge" currently has over 235 million views on YouTube. Although this incident occurred in 2016, this footage has never been released publicly. In fact, a quick scouring of the internet did not turn up anything that would indicate the public knew about this arrest before we published the first video last week. On April 2, 2016 Kirk was filming a music video in Miami Beach, Florida. According to police "people were in the middle of the street drinking, screaming, and causing a scene." Officer Ronald Suarez wrote in his report, [lightly corrected for spelling and grammar] that "there were around 30 people walking west in the middle of the road and there were people shooting video. There was a van set up watching them and videotaping. Vehicles had to use other lanes to go around them walking in the road." "Officer Small walked up and asked if they had a permit to be filming. The city requires that for filming to take place there needs to be a permit and an off-duty officer on scene. Officer Small had engaged one male who had an open glass bottle of Hennessy in his hand, which violates the county ordinance on open containers of liquor. This was Defendant Johnson who was eventually arrested for said open container." "They were telling everyone to move up onto the sidewalk and some complied, but others were refusing and wanting to know why and saying that officers couldn't tell them what to do and they didn't have to use the sidewalk. Johnson was placed under arrest and the bottle was impounded." "Defendant Kirk came up and was mouthing up and telling them to let Johnson go saying he didn't do anything. Defendant Kirk was holding his arms out but he was just inches from the officers and yelling at them. He told Defendant Gentry to record and she was recording and yelling and screaming from the sidewalk. There was another male using a camera that was arrested by others and screaming that he had it all on video." Kirk's punishment? A letter of apology, probation, and some fines/fees. He didn't pay the fees until March 5, 2020. They had already gone to collections. This is part two of two. ~~~ Follow us on Twitter @realworldpolice ~~~ Real World Police is a proud supporter of the Florida First Amendment Foundation, protecting and advancing the public’s right to open government. Want to read about how we got a $690.20 invoice for police video reduced to zero? Check out the latest records post on Patreon @ http://tiny.cc/records3 Earlier installments @ http://tiny.cc/records2 and http://tiny.cc/records1 ~~~ Do you have independently verifiable inside information on a story we are or should be covering? Email tips@realworldpolice.com. Your identity will not be revealed without your consent. Because we receive dozens of tips daily we cannot respond individually to every submission. Remember: we don't publish footage that has already been published elsewhere. The tip line is not for requests. Please don’t send links to news articles. ~~~ Want to help make Real World Police happen and get rewarded for it? Become a supporter on Patreon today! Supporters get access to: -Exclusive full-length Real World Police videos -The Roadcam series -Supporting documentation: police reports, court records, and other investigatory material -Material from cases not shown on the main channel, like the arrest of Chris Hansen and the detention of T-Pain by the TSA that time he accidentally brought a gun to the airport. -Early access to some videos -And more! https://patreon.com/realworldpolice Rather not? That works too. There are more than 500 free videos to enjoy!