NEWS: Brangelina Bodyguard Accused of Roughing Up Photog

CELEB: Brangelina Bodyguard Accused of Roughing Up Photog

A bodyguard of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie roughed up a photographer as he snapped pics of the couple leaving their hotel in Pune, India. The bodyguard, who has yet to be identified by name, grabbed the photog by the neck, and verbally threatened him. An India television station caught the incident on film, and the Hindustan Times newspaper picked up the story, identifying the photographer as Sam Relph from Barcroft Media.

Jolie and Pitt traveled to India to shoot the film adaptation of Mariane Pearl’s book, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. Jolie stars as Pearl, and Pitt’s production company, Plan B, signed on to co-produce the film.







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I love how the guy has the same dumb expression on his face the whole time.

I think the the photographer got what he had coming to him. They are worse than lawyers, they just won't leave people alone, and when told to stop they just ignore you because they figure they have a right, well so does the bodyguard to stop them

Why didn't the photographer just kick the bodyguard's ass?

GRRR!! I HATE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND LAWYERS! They are all the same!!

Ansel Adams and the Southern Poverty Law Center especially.

Yes, because breaking no laws and being no threat deserves a choking...

-TM

There's no excuse for body guards to assault photographers.

I certainly hope there are charges pressed.

Yes, he certainly deserves jail time and a criminal record for teaching some guy that it's rude to bother people.

Alfred stieglitz is such a fucking asshole.

But it's not right to teach lessons to a person by doing them harm.

eh, it;s the only way people learn things like that People don't become polite when you give them a treat for not being an asshole.

I think some of you are forgetting something:

-TM

Being rude isn't against the law. Assaulting someone is.

If assault were deemed an appropriate response to adults being rude to each other, life would be a non-stop fist fight.

People bitch and moan about photographer's and paparazzi and the like, and I think you are all forgetting one thing: Photographer's are taking these pictures because so many people are dying to get their hands on the pictures. When people stop idolizing stars, the paparazzi will go away. Until then, attack photographers is simply shooting the messenger... which isn't cool.

I'm a full-time photographer who thinks the paparazzi give us all a bad name. I'm sympathetic to the bodyguard and Brangelina in this particular case.

You make a good point here about shooting the messenger. It IS too bad that so many people seem to be addicted to a diet of movie star photos.

But let me take this reasoning one step further... I as a full-time shooter can choose NOT to harass celebrities. The fact that there is demand for a product doesn't necessarily mean I get to suspend good manners, or good taste, or ethical behavior, in the production of that product. (I realize I'm stretching it with this analogy, but... there's a lot of demand for kiddie porn but I couldn't defend my shooting it with the argument that I did it because of free-market "demand.")

Oh, and half these paparazzi bozos don't deserve the title of "Photographer." But that's another rant...

India gives people the right to assault someone for taking pictures in public? Who woulda thunk it....

You're right, crack dealers are just providing a product that people want.

Lots of things are against the law. The guy pissed someone off, and he got a little roughed up. It fucking happens.

It sounds like he didn't assault him immediately. The guard probably asked him to please stop, and when he didn't, he was physically threatened.

I think that as human beings we should all respect one another, and not abuse each other for our own personal gain... While I don't agree with any move towards violence like that, the paparazzi is paid to get a photo with no regard to the subject's feelings about it. As a celebrity you expect it, but your career is separate from your personal life. They want to act, they don't want to be in the spotlight all the time when they're not working. Photographers should have the decency to stop taking pictures if someone asks.