{"id":14106,"date":"2012-01-30T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/man-arrested-for-alleged-assault-on-photographer-14106"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T13:46:58","slug":"man-arrested-for-alleged-assault-on-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/man-arrested-for-alleged-assault-on-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for alleged assault on photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man has been arrested for alleged assault on a photographer and damage to his camera after protests in central London overnight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press photographer Jules Mattsson claims that a bailiff attacked him as he was documenting the eviction of Occupy movement protesters from buildings near to UBS bank in the City during a dawn raid attended by police.<\/p>\n<p>Mattsson, who was not seriously hurt, claims that the incident was captured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/video\/2012\/jan\/30\/occupy-london-eviction-video\" title=\"Guardian video\">video<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am obviously pretty ****** off about all this,&#8217; the photographer wrote on Twitter earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>He claims he was punched and had his lens smashed. &#8216;I have a right to go about my job without fear of assault,&#8217; wrote Mattsson.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Rossendales, whose staff carried out the eviction, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/standard\/article-24032039-bailiffs-clash-with-activists-as-occupy-squats-in-city-are-cleared.do\" title=\"Evening Standard article\">Evening Standard<\/a> that a bailiff who was seen driving a car with a protester on the bonnet had &#8216;acted in self-defence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman told <em>Amateur Photographer<\/em>: &#8216;A 45-year-old man was arrested in connection with an alleged assault and criminal damage.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The Met spokeswoman added that the criminal damage was &#8216;to a camera&#8217;, but said it was unclear whether the arrested man had any formal role in the eviction process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested for alleged assault on a photographer and damage to his camera after protests in central London overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":14107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-14106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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