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Remember folks these people DID have press credentials
Where were they?
I didn't see them hanging from them and we never saw them show them to the cops.
Seems to me, you're guessing.
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Remember folks these people DID have press credentials
Did these girls represent themselves as "journalists" or "the Press?"'Citizen reporters' are not journalists. They might think they are, they might want to be, but they are not.
Oh, boy.[...]
I'm not going to take someones word over the police.
'Citizen reporters' are not journalists. They might think they are, they might want to be, but they are not.
Being a member of the press isn't a shield of invincibility.
If you are there to report, that's what you do. You observe and report.
You don't join in with the demonstration, ya don't fuck with the cops. You let everything occur and report on it.
If these Two idiots were reporters they would have known better.
Remember folks these people DID have press credentials
The Examiner Press News and Information Site
Video and text by Sam Mayfield- cross posted from her Sam Land blog On June 6th two journalists were arrested at the state capital in Madison, WI. I was one of them. I was grabbed by an aggressive and very escalated police officer after walking in to the state capital on June 6th. Officer Corcoran told me to leave, to "get out". It was bewildering because I was already in the building and was simply walking by him filming my way in to the rotunda. He grabbed me aggressively. I told him, in the friendliest voice I could find, that I was with the press. He let me walk by. I recognized him from the many times I have been in the building over the past four months covering the gentle uprising as it develops and unfolds around Governor Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill. Alex Noguera-Garces was assisting me this day, she was also stopped. I told Corcoran that she was with me and was a member of the press. Initially he let her through. When she stayed behind to film his treatment of citizens as they entered the building he grabbed and arrested her. She was hauled away in handcuffs. It came to my attention that she was being taken away. I went to her aid and when I explained that "I was a member of the press" Corcoran let me know that "I could go too". Referring to jail and being arrested like Alex. Alex was in taken to an elevator. While inside, before the doors closed, she handed me her camera that was dangling in her hand, likely to fall given the situation
On what basis do you make that claim?
What establishes one as a member of "the Press?"Show us the proof please.
I've said a couple of times that I have looked and did not see their press passes.
Other than them verbally claiming they were, there's no proof.
What establishes one as a member of "the Press?"Show us the proof please.
I've said a couple of times that I have looked and did not see their press passes.
Other than them verbally claiming they were, there's no proof.
Who issues press passes?
What qualifies one to obtain a press pass?
Are the police empowered to arbitrarily determine who is a member of "the Press" and who is not? And if your answer is yes do you consider that arrangement to conform with Constitutional Freedom Of The Press?
Than support your position by answering my questions as listed above. All you've done here is express a theory you have.What establishes one as a member of "the Press?"Show us the proof please.
I've said a couple of times that I have looked and did not see their press passes.
Other than them verbally claiming they were, there's no proof.
Who issues press passes?
What qualifies one to obtain a press pass?
Are the police empowered to arbitrarily determine who is a member of "the Press" and who is not? And if your answer is yes do you consider that arrangement to conform with Constitutional Freedom Of The Press?
Freedom of the Press does not allow a person to make a claim at being a reporter then all of a sudden become invulnerable.
fyi; freedom of the press is not freedom of reporters.
Than support your position by answering my questions as listed above. All you've done here is express a theory you have.What establishes one as a member of "the Press?"
Who issues press passes?
What qualifies one to obtain a press pass?
Are the police empowered to arbitrarily determine who is a member of "the Press" and who is not? And if your answer is yes do you consider that arrangement to conform with Constitutional Freedom Of The Press?
Freedom of the Press does not allow a person to make a claim at being a reporter then all of a sudden become invulnerable.
fyi; freedom of the press is not freedom of reporters.
The Examiner Press News and Information Site
Video and text by Sam Mayfield- cross posted from her Sam Land blog On June 6th two journalists were arrested at the state capital in Madison, WI. I was one of them. I was grabbed by an aggressive and very escalated police officer after walking in to the state capital on June 6th. Officer Corcoran told me to leave, to "get out". It was bewildering because I was already in the building and was simply walking by him filming my way in to the rotunda. He grabbed me aggressively. I told him, in the friendliest voice I could find, that I was with the press. He let me walk by. I recognized him from the many times I have been in the building over the past four months covering the gentle uprising as it develops and unfolds around Governor Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill. Alex Noguera-Garces was assisting me this day, she was also stopped. I told Corcoran that she was with me and was a member of the press. Initially he let her through. When she stayed behind to film his treatment of citizens as they entered the building he grabbed and arrested her. She was hauled away in handcuffs. It came to my attention that she was being taken away. I went to her aid and when I explained that "I was a member of the press" Corcoran let me know that "I could go too". Referring to jail and being arrested like Alex. Alex was in taken to an elevator. While inside, before the doors closed, she handed me her camera that was dangling in her hand, likely to fall given the situation
What establishes one as a member of "the Press?"Show us the proof please.
I've said a couple of times that I have looked and did not see their press passes.
Other than them verbally claiming they were, there's no proof.
Who issues press passes?
What qualifies one to obtain a press pass?
Are the police empowered to arbitrarily determine who is a member of "the Press" and who is not? And if your answer is yes do you consider that arrangement to conform with Constitutional Freedom Of The Press?
On what basis do you make that claim?
So did these people did you object then? I don't think so. So shut the fuck up.They had journalist credentials.
Keep pretending they didnt