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One Direction member Louis Tomlinson was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after getting into a violent altercation with a photographer.
Footage published by Radar Online shows the 25-year-old Brit lunging at the paparazzo, and the two fall into a scuffle which ends with Tomlinson appearing to run off holding pieces of the man’s camera equipment.
Louis was with girlfriend Eleanor Calder after the two had touched down from Las Vegas, and she too got into a separate physical fight – the video shows Tomlinson intervening as she grappled with two women that were filming on their phones.
The BBC reports Tomlinson was arrested and charged with assault, and granted bail set at USD $20,000. He’s been ordered to appear in court on March 29.
A lawyer for Louis said his client was “provoked” by the paparazzo.
“The paparazzi provoked and caused the altercation that occurred with Louis at the airport this morning.
“While the altercation was going on with the paparazzi, three other individuals were attacking his girlfriend during this incident and he came to her defence.”
It’s been a difficult few months for the singer; he tragically lost his mother Johannah Deakin in December after she died of leukemia at just 43. He recently embarked on a solo career as the future of One Direction is in doubt – his first single is Just Hold On, believed to be a tribute to his late mother.
