Kai Cenat has addressed the giveaway event that led to multiple arrests and scenes of havoc in New York City’s Union Square. The streamer took to Twitch to speak out about the incident for the first time on Wednesday.

“I’m still taking this whole thing in right now … This is f*cking insane,” he said in a livestream entitled “First Stream After New York.” “Being from New York … it has been my dream to wanna give back to the community who made me who I am.”

Cenat said he realized his influence after the incident and called out anyone who wreaked havoc on that day. He currently has 6.5 million followers on Twitch, 6 million followers on Instagram and 4 million on YouTube.

“After Friday, bro, I’ve come to realize the amount of not only power and influence that I have on people,” he said. “I am beyond, bro, disappointed at anybody who became destructive that day. That shit is not cool. None of that is cool, bro. I’m beyond disappointed in the things that went on on Friday, and I want people to know that. None of that was my intention, bro. Not only that, I don’t condone any of the things that went on; none of that is cool.”

 

On Friday, Cenat announced a giveaway of PlayStation 5 consoles and gift cards along with fellow streamer Fanum. As a result, thousands of people showed up in Union Square Park in Manhattan. The crowd became outraged after it learned there was no giveaway, according to ABC News. People were seen throwing objects, jumping on cars and breaking into a construction site. Several individuals were minorly injured, including both civilians and police officers. The incident led to 65 arrests.

“When we do things like this, it not only needs to be safe, it needs to be fun … We can’t just running around and destroying this and destroying that. And I want people to understand, ya feel me, I’ve been seeing a lot of things with the news and the media … none of that is how I wanted this to go, bro. I had straight good intentions, and I didn’t think it was gonna be what it was,” Cenat added.

“Next time you want to do anything like this, you got to hit up the right people, make the right calls, and do it the correct way because, on a whole, we all got to do better,” he said. “I can’t stress this enough: it was not my intention; I don’t condone any of the things that went on that Friday in a destructive manner.”

 

Cenat was taken into custody following the incident and released the following day. He was charged with one felony — first-degree riot, causing public injury and damage — and two misdemeanors, which include inciting a riot and unlawful assembly.

Cenat told his audience that his first court date is Aug. 16. 

“Those who did the things that they did and messed up a lot of stuff, they need counseling,” Cenat said. “Bro, it was never my intention for things to happen as they happened.

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