It’s becoming clear from various incidents that the security team for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are not an easygoing bunch. Even before they garnered the most recent spate of bad press over the school incident, I suspected that there is a long term campaign to make paparazzi decide that it simply isn’t worth it for them to bother.

Here’s the problem with that strategy: The harder it is for paparazzi to get photos of a celebrity, the more those pictures are worth. Photographers are already willing to break the law to get pictures. They are willing to put people and their children at risk by mobbing them or chasing them in traffic. There are always going to be a few of these guys who are willing to take a punch in the face, too. I think a better option than fighting so hard against them is to court them in an organized and safe way.

As far as the racism charge goes, I don’t have enough information to formulate an opinion.

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