Former UFC star Nate Diaz got into a fight with a YouTuber named Rodney Petersen in New Orleans and choked him unconscious following a celebrity boxing show on April 22. Five days later, Diaz turned himself in to New Orleans police, while contending he acted in self-defense.
On Monday, more than five months after the incident, prosecutors in New Orleans have determined that Diaz did, in fact, act in self-defense and declined to prosecute him. In the street fight, Petersen approached Diaz on Bourbon Street. Diaz then grabbed Petersen in a choke before releasing him to the ground, seemingly unconscious.