Here’s what you’ve all been waiting for: an intriguing eye witness description of the alleged fight that resulted in Brian Chaplin being maced in the face by police officers, also featuring a video of the aftermath of the widely-reported fight. Check it all out after the jump.

The above video was posted by YouTube user, thefullreport, on 9 June 2011.

The descriptive text below the video suggests that an initial confrontation occurred between Locnville and a friend of thefullreport, who then exited the scene. An unaffiliated group of four men walked past Locnville, noticed the commotion, and proceeded to lambast Locnville with insults. The exchange resulted in a light punch-up between Locnville and the group of four men. Subsequent to that, the police arrived, and confronted Locnville and a friend of the group over their alleged disorderly behaviour.

The footage shown here captures the scene immediately after the punch-up between Locnville and the group of four.

Read the video description here:

After chatting to one of the twins for quite some time, a friend of mine said, “I’m hating”. It was more of a compliment than anything else. He was implying that he is jealous of the twins success and travels. He over-reacted, ran inside and called his brother and his friend.

The trio came out swearing and asking if anybody knew where he was. By this stage he was already sitting in the car, enjoying his pie and completely uninterested in the whole situation. As you can imagine, the trio were making quite a big scene. I tried reasoning with them but my efforts rendered useless. I gave up and walked away and was about to climb into the car when four guys walked past. They noticed the scene the trio were causing and somebody said something along the lines, ‘you’re a bunch of fags’. Locnville’s friend threw a punch which started a bit of a fist fight (neither twin joined the physical fight). It ended quite quickly.

This video was what happened immediately after. The group separates after the security guard was forced to whip out his taser. The trio carry on swearing while walking away. I called it a night as Designated Dave had to be at work at 8. So I am unsure of what happened after. I can imagine an employee at Engen called the police. The police were most likely following up on assault and I can imagine, the trio were uncooperative. They were very drunk, had a very bad attitude and were acting like idiots. The reason why I uploaded this was because they were allegedly victims of police brutality. I’m pretty sure they weren’t. It seems more along the lines of “boy in blue, don’t touch me in my studio” (with the celebrity styled belligerent attitude, obviously) . I’m sure the police were just doing their duty and were trying to restrain the trio.

I just wanted to point out that they seem like the victims of the situation but most likely aren’t. They are covering up their bad behaviour by bringing up ‘police brutality’, etc. and trying to get sympathetic responses. I know our police force has been involved in corruption and some officers seem incapable of holding a weapon. But anyone that was involved in a hijacking, break in, or extremely dangerous situation will vouch for me when I say ‘they do their job properly when we most need it’. So don’t use that as an excuse for your bad behaviour. Also, its unfair to blame the police when the trio committed punishable offences. You guys should grow up!

Anyway, that’s my side of the story. I hope trolls don’t attack the comments section below and it somehow turns into a racist argument. Honestly, I have lost all respect for the kids. Maybe they should stay away from alcohol. Because it didn’t look like they only “had a bit to drink”.

Maybe they will release a song about it. Who know’s? They can call it “I got the sun in my pocket and mace in my face” and add all the same monotonous synths again like they did on their last album.

Read Locnville’s official version of events below:

Official Statement From Locnville Regarding The Incident In Claremont, Cape Town

Thursday 9th June 2011 – 12:30pm

Following the incident that has been widely reported in the news, this is Locnville’s version of the events that took place in the early hours of this morning, Thursday 9th June.

Andrew and Brian Chaplin, together with a friend, had been out at Trinity nightclub in Cape Town. At around 4am this morning they decided to catch a taxi home as they had been drinking and didn’t want to drive. They asked the taxi driver to stop off at the Engen Garage in Claremont as they wanted to buy some food at the Steers. Upon entering the garage, a group of four males started hurling abuse at Locnville calling them amongst other things “Fags” and “Wankers”. This is something which Andrew and Brian have become accustomed to being in the public eye. Andrew Chaplin responded to the abuse by saying to the group “I really don’t need to hear this.” and walked away.

This group of males continued the abuse, were aggressive and a slight altercation broke out. Andrew and Brian Chaplin, together with their friend, walked away from the incident. Upon leaving the Engen garage shop, they were approached by two police officers who were aggressive from the start and wanted to find out what the story was? Andrew and Brian responded by saying they’d got into an incident and why were the police looking at them alone, as opposed to the four males who started the confrontation and were hurling abuse at them?

Andrew and Brian then left the garage and attempted to climb into a taxi to continue their journey home. They were then pulled out of the taxi by the same two police officers. Andrew and Brian appealed to the police officers to calm down and despite this Brian was sprayed in the face with Mace/Pepper Spray. They managed to get away after a group of security guards who saw the incident assisted them.

Once they arrived at their home in Claremont, Andrew Chaplin tried to call the Claremont Police Station repeatedly and claimed that the police officers who answered the phone literally “laughed at me and hung up each time”.

Andrew and Brian Chaplin, together with their father, will be meeting with Lieutentant Colonel Andre Traut of SAPS this afternoon.

Before the Locnville twins take their complaint any further, they should be aware that the name of the Western Cape Police Commissioner is Arno Lemoer.