Watch Louis Tomlinson's Fight With A Paparazzi That Led To His Arrest
Posted on Mon Mar 6th, 2017 2:00pm PDT By X17 Staff
Track suits were flying!
Louis Tomlinson was arrested after a fight with a photographer at LAX on Friday, and now there's video of the chaotic scene. Apparently, the One Direction heartthrob got physical with the shutterbug after a verbal argument escalated, and the photographer had to get medical care for his injuries.
"[Tomlinson] grabbed [the paparazzo] by his lower leg and knocked him on the ground. He hit his head on the floor. He was transported to the hospital. There were a lot of people around watching it," an LAX officer told People.
Making matters worse, a girl was videotaping the whole incident and Tomlinson's girlfriend Eleanor Calder got into with her, prompting the chart topper to intervene and throw the girl to the ground in defense of his lady love.
"This is not the first or last time that a paparazzi has created an altercation with a celebrity. While the altercation was going on with the paparazzi, three other individuals were attacking his girlfriend during the incident and he came to her defense," his lawyer Marty Singer said in a statement.
Now the woman involved, named Ana Becerra, claims she could have died from a brain hemorrhage and plans to press charges.
"I'm a b***h for getting hit by a celebrity? Literally I hit my head on the ground a little bit harder I could have an cerebral haemorrhage. #WeSupportLouis is actually trending he abused a girl!! I COULD HAVE SERIOUSLY DIED. A girl goes up to me and grabs my phone because she thinks I am filming her boyfriend harassing a person, I want the phone back so I follow her and she backs into a corner. She hides the phone back so I follow her and she backs into a corner and when I finally get it her psycho ass boyfriends (sic) grabs me and makes me fall and I grabbed the girls shirt trying not to fall, and we land on the ground where the boyfriend punches me in the eye and when he stands up he knees me in the stomach," Becerra tweeted about the incident.
The British boybander was arrested and booked on misdemeanor battery charges. Due to the fact it's a misdemeanor, Tomlinson's immigration visa is not expected to be affected. He is due in court on March 29.