“We don’t affirm names of victims and offenders of crimes, but when each different information company on the planet is utilizing these names, you wouldn’t be incorrect,” a police assertion mentioned.
The BBC cited a video proven on Australian media, during which Taylor and her father are seen strolling towards a automobile, with the singer hiding her face underneath an umbrella and her father briefly throwing up his middle finger.
Photographer Ben McDonald advised Agence France-Presse {that a} safety guard used an umbrella to attempt to cease him from taking images, and that an older man then hit him as Taylor entered the automobile.
“He punched me within the chops,” McDonald mentioned. “It was a shock. That’s by no means occurred to me in 26 years.”
Taylor’s spokesperson Tree Paine despatched a press release accusing McDonald and one other photographer current of “aggressively pushing their method in the direction of Taylor, grabbing at her safety personnel, and threatening to throw a feminine employees member into the water.”
A video published by Australian media exhibits photographers flashing footage of the Swifts as somebody instructs: “Go forward and step away from the automobile.” Then, an umbrella will get rustled.
“Don’t contact my umbrella,” somebody says. “No, you touched my umbrella,” one other individual replies, earlier than the video falls sideways.
Scott, nicknamed “Papa Swift,” is beloved by the megastar’s followers for public acts of kindness, together with handing out sandwiches to followers at an earlier live performance in Sydney. He left Australia with Taylor as scheduled after the incident, Good Morning America reported.
Taylor will proceed touring in Singapore. The “Eras” tour grew to become the highest-grossing music tour of all time final 12 months, and the primary to earn over $1 billion in income.
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