A paparazzo is suing Kanye West over an alleged incident wherein the rapper grabbed her telephone and threw it into site visitors, in response to court docket paperwork obtained by Billboard.
Photographer Nichol Lechmanik is suing West (typically often called Ye) for assault, battery, negligence and interference with the train of her civil rights following the alleged altercation, which occurred on the afternoon of Jan. 27 outdoors Sports Academy in Newbury Park, Calif., per the grievance filed in California Superior Court in Ventura County on Wednesday (May 31).
Lechmanik alleges that whereas driving her automotive and filming Ye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian as she exited the power, she observed that West was “angrily confronting” one other photographer on the road outdoors. “Given Defendant Ye’s reputation for violence against photographers, his history of physically harming them, and based on his threatening body language, Plaintiff became fearful for the photographer’s safety,” the grievance reads. It states that Lechmanik then started filming the incident on her telephone from inside her automotive with the window open.
Lechmanik alleges that Ye then walked as much as her automotive and “aggressively” mentioned, “You all ain’t gonna run up on me like that,” and when she replied that she wasn’t, he grew to become “enraged,” reached into her automotive and “ripped her phone out of her hands” earlier than throwing it “onto the street towards oncoming traffic.”
According to the lawsuit, Lechmanik mentioned the incident induced her “great mental, and emotional pain and suffering” and that she “anticipates incurring medical and related expenses.”
Lechmanik is requesting common and particular damages, punitive and exemplary damages, civil penalties and prices of the swimsuit. Additionally, she’s asking for an order enjoining West and “all persons acting in concert with him or acting on his behalf, from touching, striking, annoying, contacting, molesting, attacking, threatening, or otherwise interfering with…the Plaintiff, and all persons similarly situated, to pursue the occupation of photographer.”
West has a protracted historical past of authorized scuffles with paparazzi that stem all the way in which again to 2008 when he was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after breaking the flash of a paparazzo’s digital camera.
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