4:17 PM PT — A rep for Taylor tells TMZ … “Two individuals were aggressively pushing their way towards Taylor, grabbing at her security personnel, and threatening to throw a female staff member into the water.”

Taylor Swift‘s father, Scott, has been accused of attacking a paparazzo in Australia — and now cops are trying into it … and a few of this seems to have been caught on digital camera.

New South Wales Police Media Unit tells TMZ … cops there are investigating an alleged assault that was reported to them on Sydney’s North Shore very early Tuesday morning native time — this after a photographer named Ben McDonald filed a grievance claiming simply that.

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We’re instructed police there have been knowledgeable {that a} 71-year-old man — believed to be Scott — allegedly bought right into a bodily confrontation with a 51-year-old man (McDonald) at Impartial Bay Wharf at about 2 AM Tuesday as he was exiting the world.

NSWPMU tells us the alleged sufferer reported this, and now … it is on the radar as they probe what precisely occurred, and whether or not against the law was dedicated. The cops right here word … the alleged sufferer didn’t require medical therapy.

Now, by way of the alleged proof right here … McDonald truly appears to have captured a minimum of a chunk of this altercation — though, it’s kind of unclear what precisely you’ll be able to see right here.

You may see and listen to Ben manning the digital camera as Scott and a bunch of safety guards clear the trail for him as he makes his means from the dock space, and as Scott will get nearer, one of many guards with an umbrella — who appears to be making an attempt to obscure the view of McDonald — will get awfully shut … and you may hear what seems like a scuffle ensue.

From the appears of it, Scott would not seem like immediately concerned — however once more, it is laborious to inform for certain. In any case, McDonald has gone operating to cops to accuse him of assault.

McDonald instructed the Every day Mail that Taylor was with Scott right here — and that they had been arriving from Homebush on a yacht when all this went down. Photographs of their arrival had been captured by paps on the bottom — together with McDonald — and you may truly see Taylor strolling via with an umbrella over her total torso as Scott guides her via the pap crush.