LOS ANGELES -- Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.

鈥淭hey were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment,鈥� Packer said in a clip released by ABC News Thursday night of an interview he gave to 鈥淕ood Morning America.鈥� 鈥淭hey said we will go get him. We are prepared. We're prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him. They were laying out the options.鈥�

But Packer said Rock was 鈥渧ery dismissive鈥� of the idea.

鈥淗e was like, `No, no, no, I'm fine,鈥� Packer said. 鈥淎nd even to the point where I said, `Rock, let them finish.' The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, `Would you like us to take any action?' And he said no.鈥�

The LAPD said in a statement after Sunday night's ceremony that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to file a police report. The department declined comment Thursday on Packer's interview.

In the longer version on 鈥淕ood Morning America,鈥� Packer said he initially believed the slap was an orchestrated bit. 鈥淚 thought it was part of something that Chris and Will were doing on their own. I thought it was a bit. I wasn't concerned at all.鈥�

Packer said he went up to Rock after the incident. 鈥淚 said, `Did he really hit you?鈥�' the producer asked Rock. 鈥淎nd he looked at me and he goes, `Yeah, I just took a punch from Muhammad Ali,' as only Chris can. He was immediately in joke mode, but you could tell that he was very much still in shock.鈥�

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group's standards of conduct. Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.

The academy said in a statement that 鈥淢r. Smith's actions at the 94th Oscars were a deeply shocking, traumatic event to witness in-person and on television.鈥�

Without giving specifics, the academy said Smith was asked to leave the ceremony at the Dolby Theatre, but refused to do so.

Smith strode from his front row seat on to the stage and slapped Rock after a joke Rock made about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, when he was on stage to present the Oscar for best documentary.

On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying 鈥淚 was out of line and I was wrong.鈥�

The academy said Smith has the opportunity to defend himself in a written response before the board meets again on April 18.

Rock publicly addressed the incident for the first time, but only briefly, at the beginning of a standup show Wednesday night in Boston, where he was greeted by a thunderous standing ovation. He said 鈥淚'm still kind of processing what happened.鈥�