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Santa Pictures + Marketing for your BusinessAssaulted and arrested celebrity photographers strike back with lawsuit
Who hired the thuggish security guards who brutally assaulted and detained a pair of photographers last week during a celebrity wedding?
Disney/ABC TV, which was filming the segment of The Bachelor on the beach at the time of the incident, denied hiring O&R Security.
And Next Entertainment, the production company owned by Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss, also denied hiring the security company.
Officials from the Terrenea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, where the assault took them by surprise, also denied hiring the security company.
Despite all the denials, the photographers have a pretty good idea who hired the company because they have filed suit against Disney/ABC TV and Next Entertainment for battery, false imprisonment and negligence, according to X17 Online.
Meanwhile, the thug who runs O&R Security, Antonio Revilla, was threatening to file assault charges against the photographer, even though the image above shows Revilla grabbing the photographyer from behind in a violent chokehold.
Also, all charges against the photographers were thrown out, but that still doesn’t make up for the fact that they were detained by citizen security guards before being handed over to police who jailed them for 20 hours.
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should probably file a lawsuit against the sheriff’s department as well
Not even Jerry Springer could come up with shit this good.
Lets not forget the goons themselves.
Hit them for a few thousand each, and none of that “I thought I could whoop ass when I was security for Disney”, because that’s the image Walt would want.
I think this lawsuit, or the media attention it’s getting anyway may have some legs. I can’t wait to see what happens with the lawsuit. In particular, I want to know if they really were on public property.
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What bothers me is that people hear that charges were dropped against the photographers and think “why complain? They got cleared of all wrongdoing.” They don’t seem to understand that spending 20 hours in jail IS punishment without a conviction, and just how the police routinely use it as a weapon against people to whom they want to teach a lesson.
Should also add on loss of wages, although that will probably pale in comparison to the rest of the verdict – er – settlement.
When will photographers learn to hire their own “muscle” and bring it along for the sole purpose of defending themselves against illegal assualts or illegal battery.
Someone should have maced that goon Revilla. They need to sue him as well. Maybe he doesn’t have any money and that’s why he’s still out in the field. No sense in naming someone that’s impotent.
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I agree with the hire your own security…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFLhjV6AQNY
I think you sue everyone involved. NBC/Disney, the security company, the Terrenea Resort, the security company, the individual security guards, the chick that holds up the sheet to keep the filmer from filming, and the sheriffs dept too. everyone.
Every lawsuit will contain in the filing documents, a number of “Doe Defendants” that can later be added to the lawsuit if anything is revealed in “Discovery”. The fun thing is that the photogs will be able to look into any of Disney’s and Next’s files to figure out who hired these goons.
Does anyone have the legal filings? The link on x17 doesn’t work.
Mace? Try Bear Guard(tm). 10% capsicum will take the starch out of any rent-a-goon.
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