Airport police who helped Jamie Lynn Spears avoid paps are under investigation

Airport police who helped Jamie Lynn Spears avoid paps are under investigation
Last week, when Jamie Lynn Spears flew from Louisiana to Los Angeles to visit her sister Britney and attend the birthday party of her two nephews, Sean Preston and Jayden, LAX Airport police helped the young mom avoid the paparazzi crush by setting up a decoy operation. Apparently, another passenger on the plane bore a resemblance to Jamie Lynn, and she volunteered to pose as her at LAX, distracting the growing crowd of photogs assembling inside the terminal. Meanwhile, the real Jamie Lynn, along with her infant daughter Maddie and her mom, were escorted by cops off the tarmac, avoiding throngs of photographers. Well, the airport police who helped her now face an internal investigation by their superiors.

“It is not the policy or practice for Airport Police to provide a celebrity decoy,” LAX spokesman Albert Rodriguez tells E! News. “Airport Police has opened an internal investigation of the incident and will take appropriate administrative action if warranted.

“Los Angeles World Airports policy prohibits special courtesies to be provided to celebrities, unless extenuating circumstances such threat of danger to the individual or the safety of the general public are involved.”

Things got started when Spears, her new daughter, Maddie, and mother Lynne were escorted by officers directly off their Delta flight without even entering the airport terminal.

“Jamie Lynn left the airport via the tarmac because of the baby. It would never ever have happened if she didn’t have the baby,” a police source tells E! News.

While the family was safely whisked away, paparazzi in turn focused their attention on another young woman accompanined by several police officers. The police walked the camera-hounded girl out of the terminal, imploring shutterbugs to back both up and off, fueling the photographers’ belief that the escortee was a V.I.P.

[From E!Online]

“Unless extenuating circumstances such threat of danger to the individual or the safety of the general public are involved.” I would call a 17-year-old with a tiny baby, about to get stampeded by paparazzi, and “extenuating circumstance.” But maybe that’s an everyday occurrence in Los Angeles. It sounds to me like the airport police don’t feel they did anything wrong, and I tend to agree. If anything, the airport should change its policy regarding allowing large crowds of photographers inside the terminal. If they aren’t there on airport business, wouldn’t they be considered trespassers?

Note by Celebitchy: Here’s a link to the video of the fake Jamie Lynn on TMZ. You can hear a photographer say “Are you worried your boyfriend is going to leave you? Is that why you’re here?” I agree with MSat - the police were pretty justified in faking them out. Header image thanks to TMZ.

Published 9/17/08 by


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