Wielding a knife shaped like a replica gun. i mean, he rammed right into him. reporter: cnn s rachel crane was just a few feet away, sitting in the second row. one second you re laughing and the next second, honestly, i was fearing for my life, because i thought that perhaps this man had a bomb in that backpack on his back. reporter: he did not, and chappelle was not injured, according to the lapd, quickly cracking jokes. the 23-year-old male suspect was hurt in the me laei, taken to te hospital and arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. any motive remains unclear. chappelle, in his recent netflix special does note that he angers a lot of people with his comedy. now listen, women get mad at me, gay people get mad at me, lesbians get mad at me. but i m going to tell you right now, this is true, these transgenders, these [ bleep ] want me dead. reporter: this assault took