Littrell to sue the county, <\/a>accusing them of not protecting him against trespassers.<\/p>\nAfter the video was released, social media users have criticized Littrell for disrespecting public beaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrian has been claiming he \u2018owns\u2019 that part of the beach when he doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s a public beach,\u201d one person wrote on X. Another said, \u201cThat a**hole does not own the Gulf of America, nor the wet sand adjacent to it. He shouldn’t sneak up behind someone & stick a phone in their face on public property. I’m sure the Sheriff’s Office hates getting his BS calls. They should charge Littrell for false emergency calls.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the video, the beachgoer tells Littrell to get \u201cout of his face\u201d while the singer tells Gallagher to stop grabbing his phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what I deal with,\u201d Littrell says in the video. \u201cThis is what I deal with. People like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gallagher fires back: \u201cYou reached around me from behind my back, dude, I got you on video…You’re never gonna \u2014 you bought a house next to private property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou touched me, dog,\u201d Littrell says. Gallagher responds, \u201cNo, I didn\u2019t touch you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littrell appears to say, \u201cYou want to be gay? Want to be a p****?\u201d He later adds, \u201cPublic access doesn\u2019t grant you public beach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re done for, bro,\u201d Gallagher replies. \u201cYou\u2019re not gonna get privacy. You\u2019ll never get privacy here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Littrell\u2019s attorney, Peter Ticktin, told The Independent: \u201cMr. Littrell and his family purchased what they saw as their dream home, only to discover an ongoing pattern of trespassing and harassment targeting private property owners along their and their neighbors\u2019 stretch of beach. These actions are not about public access, public beaches exist on both sides of the neighborhood and remain open and uncrowded. Instead, certain individuals appear intent on challenging the very concept of private property rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
He emphasized that despite several online claims, Littrell did not use a homophobic slur in the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is deeply troubling that these incidents have been allowed to escalate due to a lack of enforcement by the local Sheriff\u2019s office. Homeowners are entitled to safety and privacy on their own property, and Mr. Littrell is no exception,\u201d Ticktin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-361556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Backstreet Boys star Brian Littrell is facing backlash over a dispute he had with a beachgoer that he accused of trespassing (Getty Images for The Recording Academy)<\/p>\n