Why no charges yet in the papparazzi beach brawl? Nobody's talking

Still no legal movement in the beach papparazzi -versus - surfers brawls in Malibu that made international headlines and led to beefed-up beach enforcement last month, Harriet Ryan reports:

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has not charged anyone in the incidents and one surfer claims a knife wielded by a paparazzo was edited out of the video sold to Internet gossip sites.

Meanwhile, photographers are grumbling that the lack of charges against the locals reflects Malibu's disgust with paparazzi.

"If they wanted to get them, they would have already," said Alexander DeMacedo, a freelance paparazzo who was at both incidents. "I don't think they tried hard enough."

Investigators say the problem lies with witnesses on both sides, who refuse to come forward with details. Meanwhile, one of the paps sounds as though he's considering a civil suit. Read Hariet's full story about the Malibu papparazzi brawl.

--Veronique de Turenne

Photo: Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times

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[guity]

Two packs of jerks came into contact. What's left to do? Figure out who was marginally more jerkish?