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Earlier this week, New York rapper Jim Jones plead not guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges stemming from an incident during a performance in Florida.

Jones allegedly punched Damion Johns, 17, of Panama City, on the lip during a March 13 mtvU-hosted Spring Break concert at Boardwalk Beach Resort.

According to The Panama City News Herald, Johns told police Jones asked him to move, and then hit him because he did not move out of the way fast enough.

Johns said he punched Jones back, and that brought the wrath of Jones' bodyguards, who he said threw him to the ground. One bodyguard allegedly held Johns up while the other punched him in the jaw.

Now, a video of the altercation has surfaced and it may help clear Jone's name. The video, posted on Youtube last month, shows two or three large men scuffling with a smaller man wearing a black shirt, and a man identified as Jim Jones standing in the back.

The man identified as Jones appeared to be walking away from the altercation, but returned to pull people away from the fight.

Donny Smith, who shot the footage, said Jones and members of his party were walking through and stopped to take pictures with some girls when Johns asked for a picture with Jones, who declined, and this upset Johns.

"The kid kept calling him out. (Jones) told him a few times, ‘You'd better just shut up, man. Let it go,'" Smith said. "Then somebody in the group cold-clocked the kid, sucker punched him."

"Jim didn't do nothing, just told the kid to back away," Smith said. "He wasn't in the fight at all, never through a punch."

You can watch the shake footage below: