Halifax Alehouse bouncer bounced after scuffle
Posted Dec 4, 2009 06:51:22 AM.
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A bouncer at a downtown nightclub has been fired after an incident caught on tape where an arts student says he was assaulted for taking a photograph.
Tyler Munford, 22, was capturing shots of the city’s nightlife for a school project when he says a bouncer assaulted him, stole his camera, and deleted the pictures.
Munford says he was snapping pictures outside the Alehouse Saturday night when he took a photo of a bouncer.
He tells CTV he didn’t ask permission because legally, he didn’t have to.
“He puts his hands on my wrists and on my camera and starts trying to pull it away from me,” he said. “He’s like, ‘No. You’re deleting this right now.”
In the video posted on YouTube, Munford can be seen wrestling the camera free and throwing it to his friend, Stella Ducklow.
“I probably got about five feet before this guy basically just took me to the ground, had somebody else come up and hold my feet,” she said.
The camera was taken, and when Munford got it back, he says the photos were gone – though police were able to restore the images.
The bar’s general manager says he stands by his bouncer’s actions on public property – but the bouncer, has now been fired.
Alehouse general manager Peter Martell tells the Herald the bouncer was intimidated by the students’ “paparazzi-like” approach and claims they were trying to provoke an incident.
He says it’s a shame their “antics” cost someone his job.
Photographers were planning to protest outside the Alehouse tonight.
