{"id":586004,"date":"2026-05-15T19:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586004\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:17:08","slug":"melissa-rein-lively-charged-over-racist-assault-at-bond-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/586004\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Rein Lively charged over &#8216;racist&#8217; assault at Bond Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A prominent Donald Trump supporter and PR executive has been charged with assault after an alleged racist incident at Bond Street Underground station in central London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Transport Police said a woman reported she was racially abused and had her hair grabbed as she entered the station with her sister and two young children at 19:30 BST on 11 October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US national Melissa Rein Lively, 40 &#8211; a &#8220;Maga&#8221; (make America great again) influencer &#8211; has been charged with assault by beating. Her partner, German national Philipp Ostermann, 37, has been charged with three public order offences, two of them racially aggravated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair are due before Westminster Magistrates&#8217; Court on 19 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prominent Donald Trump supporter and PR executive has been charged with assault after an alleged racist incident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-586004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}