Lil Nas X pleads not guilty to four felony charges after LA incident

Rapper Lil Nas X pleaded not guilty on Monday to four felony charges after a predawn incident last week in which police say he charged at officers while walking nearly naked on a busy Los Angeles street and was hospitalized for a suspected overdose. The 26 year old, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, was arraigned in Van Nuys on three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Bail was set at $75,000.

Police and witnesses said the episode unfolded in the Studio City section of Ventura Boulevard in the early hours of Aug. 21. Multiple callers reported a naked man walking in the street, and video widely circulated online shows Lil Nas X wearing only underwear and white cowboy boots, at one point placing an orange traffic cone on his head and telling a bystander "Don't be late to the party tonight." Officers arrived around 5:50 a.m., and the LAPD said the suspect charged at them and was taken into custody. Paramedics transported him to a hospital for evaluation of a possible drug overdose before he was booked, authorities said.

Accounts diverged over what happened...