Paparazzi alleges Ye gave her a 'demise stare' after grabbing her telephone and chucking it into the road

• Photographer Nichol Lechmanik filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ye on Wednesday. 
• Lechmanik is suing Ye for grabbing her telephone out of her hand and throwing it into the road in January.
• “I would like Ye to know that he cannot do what he did to me with out going through penalties,” Nicole mentioned. 

An expert photographer is suing Ye after the rapper grabbed her telephone out of her hand and threw it onto the road throughout a heated confrontation in January.

Nichol Lechmanik introduced the lawsuit alongside her lawyer Gloria Allred at a press convention in Los Angeles on Thursday. Lechmanik is suing Ye for assault, battery, negligence, and violation of her civil rights. Allred mentioned she filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Ventura Superior Courtroom. 

Representatives for Ye didn’t instantly return Insider’s requests for touch upon the lawsuit on Thursday.

In line with Allred, Lechmanik was outdoors a sports activities academy in Newbury Park, California, on January 23, 2023, taking a break after photographing Kim Kardashian going into the power. Whereas she was ready for Kardashian to exit the power, she witnessed Ye — Kardashian’s ex-husband — and one other photographer exit their autos and get right into a confrontation. 

Allred mentioned Lechmanik thought Ye may need a weapon when he reached for one thing in his pocket.

Fearing for the opposite photographer’s security, she pulled out her telephone and began recording the confrontation from inside her personal automobile.

When Ye seen Lechmanik was filming him, Allred says Ye stormed over to the automobile and began yelling at Lechmanik by means of the open driver’s window. 

Ye was “enraged” and finally “reached into the automobile and ripped her telephone out of her arms,” Allred mentioned. 

Allred says the telephone was thrown into the road, in the direction of oncoming visitors. 

Lechmanik’s enterprise associate was additionally within the automobile on the time, filming the change from the entrance passenger’s seat. 

After throwing the telephone into the road, Allred says Ye got here round to the passenger’s aspect of the automobile the place Lechmanik’s enterprise associate was sitting and in addition filming the change. 

Lechmanik’s enterprise associate was “likewise terrified” and locked the door and rolled up the window. 

Allred says Ye gave the pair a “demise stare” earlier than “lastly turning and strolling away.”

Two movies of the interplay had been additionally proven to the media on the press convention on Thursday.

Within the first video, recorded by Lechmanik, Ye is heard telling on the photographer: “If I need to go see my son at a sport, y’all ain’t gonna run up on me.”

“I wasn’t working,” Lechmanik is heard saying.

“Cease along with your cameras,” Ye says earlier than reaching into the automobile and yanking Lechmanik’s telephone out of her arms.

Video taken by Lechmanik’s passenger reveals Ye flinging the telephone into the road.

Lechmanik is asking for a jury to award her basic, particular, and punitive damages. Allred mentioned additionally they desire a courtroom order stopping Ye from attacking or interfering with Lechmanik or every other photographer’s proper to pursue their occupations. Allred talked about that she represented one other photographer in a lawsuit in opposition to Ye in 2016, which she secured a settlement for, which included an apology from Ye.

Lechmanik “needs Ye to know that what he’s doing to photographers is mistaken and in Lechmanik’s case it was dangerous to her bodily, emotionally, and financially,” Allred mentioned. 

“Lechmanik needs justice and that’s the reason she filed her lawsuit in opposition to Ye yesterday,” Allred added. 

Lechmanik mentioned the incident was “very traumatic” and it has left her “actually not as motivated to work.” 

“I would like Ye to know that he cannot do what he did to me with out going through penalties,” Lechmanik mentioned.