Katt Williams Arrested for Punching Pool Supply Store Employee [VIDEO]

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Comedian/actor Katt Williams was arrested and booked into jail on Monday afternoon by police in Gainesville, GA., for the battery of a pool supply store employee. When police arrived Williams was reportedly laying on the ground with his hand behind his back.

The pool supply store employee told police that Williams threw a pair of goggles at him after they began arguing, the pint sized comic then reportedly “went behind the counter and punched the employee at least once,” said Sgt. Kevin Holbrook to the GainesvilleTimes.

Williams later bonded out of jail, but is facing a misdemeanor battery charge.

TMZ cameras caught up with Katt Williams since his arrest. The comic claims the store employee thought he was there to rob him. Williams says he put thirty items on the counter, followed by fifteen $100 bills on the counter to pay for his purchase, the clerk took the money and pocketed it, and Williams wasn’t having it and voiced his displeasure. After the man threatened to put Williams out of the store, he said “not without my packages or without my money.” and then came the “n word,” and Katt wasn’t having it citing,

“He used the n-word on the last day of Black History Month," said Williams. "So Katt Williams did what Katt Williams had to do as a black man, that is self employed. Then Katt Williams went out to the middle of the street and assumed the position, so that the hard working police officers that ran up on him with nine police cars and guns drawn, understood that they weren’t dealing with a criminal. And since it’s my 19th visit to Atlanta, and I’m not from there, now Georgia no longer gets the comedy of Katt Williams.”