Police: Mike Tyson in Scuffle at LA Airport

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Associated Press

Mike Tyson allegedly hit a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport and was booked and released on suspicion of battery Wednesday, police said.

The paparazzo told police that the former heavyweight boxing champion struck him once, airport police spokesman Sgt. Jim Holcomb said. The photographer fell to the ground and was treated for a cut to his forehead at a hospital.

Tyson's spokeswoman Tammy Brook said the boxer was traveling with his wife and 10-month-old child Wednesday afternoon when he was attacked by an overly aggressive paparazzo. The 43-year-old acted in self-defense to protect his child, she said.

Tyson and the unnamed photographer both want to press charges for misdemeanor battery, police said.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/11/us/AP-US-People-Mike-Tyson.html?_r=1

[saltpoint]

1. Tyson is a blockhead.

[Vodid]

2. Papparazzi's can be blockheads too. nt

[mystieus]

3. TYT response;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_B4J-F2mI0

[Prometheus Bound]

4. Mike Tyson's not high on my list of people I'd want to be overly aggressive with.

[Mopar151]

9. Indeed

I am polite to skunks, rottwilers, and Hell's Angels.

[Bette Noir]

5. This story shocks me.

Mike Tyson found someone who would marry him!?

Someone who didn't have a boarding pass got into an airport!?

[katkat]

7. Any woman who married him has to be demented. n/t

[Ian David]

6. Why do people still bother trying to photograph Mike Tyson?

Do they still chase Jerry Mathers at the airport?

I don't think so.

[CreekDog]

8. Well I don't think I could ever take Tyson's side

unless it involved Paparazzi. :eyes:

[TZ]

10. I still remember when he hit a motorist who was in an accident with him

and this all happened like 2 miles from my mothers house...