A outstanding Hollywood editor is getting the chilly shoulder, professionally, attributable to his latest arrest for little one endangerment — and regardless of hypothesis he’ll proceed engaged on a big-time Amazon Prime present … TMZ can verify he is out.
Thirty-nine-year-old Christopher Charkowski was arrested in L.A. County final week on a felony cost of willful cruelty to a baby inflicting doable doable harm or dying — and a video is circulating on-line allegedly exhibiting him brutalizing a child within a home.
Law enforcement sources inform us this clip — house surveillance footage that is been making the rounds on social media — has been submitted to authorities as a part of their investigation of the case. Court data record the date of the alleged offense as June 2022.
The case was filed again in November, however Charkowski wasn’t hauled in and booked by legislation enforcement till Jan. 4. What’s depicted on this video is disturbing, to say the least, and could possibly be a key piece of proof as this case proceeds.
In the clip, you see a person dropping his thoughts and going after what seems to be slightly boy. You can see him placing his fingers on the child, throttling him and probably even throwing some punches.
It’s unclear what the relation is likely to be between the grownup and little one right here, however on its face, it seems legislation enforcement had sufficient cause to imagine it is Charkowski within the video.
BTW, he is been launched on bail — and future court docket dates are scheduled.
Now, so far as who Charkowski is in showbiz … he is labored in post-production for lots of massive TV exhibits. Most just lately, he edited video for “Jury Duty,” which was the discuss of the city final yr, and was even nominated eventually weekend’s Golden Globes.
Charkowski is listed as a part of the editorial division for that sequence — and after this video acquired out, folks have been clamoring for Amazon to drop him ASAP. Welp, a supply with direct data tells TMZ that Charkowski is not affiliated with the studio.
We’re advised his function on “Jury Duty” — which spanned 8 episodes — got here and went as soon as they wrapped manufacturing practically a yr in the past, and our sources say he was an outdoor contractor on the present, not a everlasting worker of Amazon/Freevee.
Since then, our sources say he hasn’t been employed at Amazon by any means — and protected to say … he will not be again.
Another present he is labored on for a very long time is Bravo’s “Below Deck Mediterranean,” however a manufacturing supply factors out to TMZ …. he hasn’t been with them for about 2 years now.
We reached out to Chris … he had no remark.