A series of photos was published of a comfrontation between strip club bouncers and patrons. the headlines accompany it alledge the bouncer had knocked one of the patrons down and was kicking him. Another news story followed the next day with the bouncer claiming the picture shows him trying to regain balance.
here is the picture gallery.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/large-gallery/0,25410,5032127-5006020-,00.html
and exerpts from the article.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23800731-661,00.html
Bar 20 crowd controller Eddie Attal said he could not believe he was the same man portrayed in a confronting series of photos in the Herald Sun.
Mr Attal denied the photos show him assaulting a man outside the King St strip joint.
“It looks like I’m kicking him. I’m trying to regain my balance,” he said.
"I was very devastated and very upset. I’m not that person. I’m a family man with three kids.
“It looks bad. It’s a shot that captures the whole thug issue. There’s not much I can say.”
Mr Attal claimed he and another security guard were subjected to severe provocation by three drunken men during seven simmering minutes in front of Bar 20.
He said he was spat on and racially abused by one of the men.
"He said, ‘You look like a wog. How does a wog work on the front door of Bar 20?’ " Mr Attal said.
He was fired by Bar 20 and could face serious charges, but said he did not know what he would do for work after 11 years as a crowd controller.
“My reputation’s been tarnished,” Mr Attal said.
He said the violence erupted after he ran to help some men who were being attacked by the group he had clashed with.
A friend of the three men attacked by bouncers said they had been drinking, but denied allegations they had tried to pull a person out of a car near the entrance to Bar 20.
“They didn’t pull anyone out of a car and assault them,” the friend said. "That bouncer is out of control.
"His (my friend’s) hair is ripped out like it was done with a drill. It’s from the boot scraping on his head.
"One (victim) had his hands in his pockets when he was pushed (by the bouncer).
The friend said security footage of King St cleared his three friends of any wrongdoing.
“They (the bouncers) just did it,” he said.
He said one of his friends went to hospital for a CAT scan yesterday.
