outside of a d.c. hotel last night. this time the charges were reduced to a misdemeanor. brown is becoming as known for his bad behavior as his music. we re up all nightline with abc s linsey davis. reporter: chris brown left this d.c. courthouse among a throng of screaming fans and flashing lights. the 24-year-old entertainer spent the night in a washington, d.c., jail cell after allegedly punching a man in the nose. brown and his bodyguard were arrested after allegedly attacking 20-year-old parker adams. the fight broke out around 4:30 sunday morning, just a few blocks away from the white house. the alleged victim telling police he and a friend were at the w hotel when they saw chris brown and tried to jump in to a photo with him. chris went nuts, he says. in a police incident report, the alleged victim said, i m not down with that gay expletive. i feel like boxing, brown then punched parker in the face.
down with that gay expletive. i feel like boxing, brown then punched parker in the face. brown s bodyguard threw a second punch. they say he was trying to get on brown s tour bus and the bodyguard simply tried to stop him. this is the latest in a slew of bad boy antics. his temper first came to light in 2009 when he was infamously convicted of assaulting rihanna. it happened the night before the grammy awards. he famously apologized to rihanna and his fans. i thought it was time that you heard directly from me that i am sorry. i have tried to live my life in a way that can make those around me proud of me, and until recently i think i was doing a pretty good job. reporter: not even two years later, another incident when he threw a chair in the studio of good morning america. last june, the bottle throwing bar brawl inside a new york city nightclub involving entourages of brown and hip-hop star drake.