Posted on 02/09/2023 5:32:03 AM PST by Red Badger
🚨#BREAKING: NewsNation reporter has been taken into custody for doing a live shot at Ohio train crash press conference
📌#EastPalestine l #OH
A NewsNation reporter was pushed to the ground and arrested during a news conference held by the Ohio governor about a train… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1623482410414354435
VIDEO AT LINK.........................
Soon to have his retirement funds increased by substantial sum from city?
Zero violence in that video.
This looks like a case of the small town East Palestine police department being overwhelmed by the moment and behaving stupidly.
The reporter for NewsNation had just started a live broadcast from one end of a high school gym, when Governor DeWine started speaking at the other end of the gym. The local police asked the reporter to stop and he didn’t wrap things up as fast as they wanted.
DeWine said he was only vaguely aware of some kind of a disturbance at the other end of the gym, until after he finished his press conference. The overzealous police probably caused more of a disturbance than the guy simply finishing his report.
Hopefully there is a quick apology from the police department, and some minor reprimands for the officers involved.
Probably not if these are Democrats
The Democrats get their money’s worth from “good union jobs” ...
Too loud ? Getting uppity, eh ? Keeping law and order around here !
My dad was a career cop, police have changed. They now enforce mask bullies, violate rights, and arrest citizens not breaking the law. THE PROCESS IS THE PUNISHMENT. Yes this guy will be released, yeah in 3 years the lawsuit may finish for rights violation. I ask cops all the time now, did you enforce the shutdown mandates from the Governors? Did you tell people they had to wear a mask or leave public buildings? Would you do it now? And guess what the answers are! Yes, they will not think for themselves. Police that are good are gold, the rest are useful idiots or thugs in blue.
My local morning news covered this in detail. They also had the Governor’s response to this after his address. He said the reporter had a right to do his job and that the arrest should not have happened. I was surprised by his response, I expected something snide and narcissistic.
protecting the pensions ... they don’t get paid to think ...
Raised in a family of cops (father, mother, brother, cousins), I find your assessment to be spot-on correct.
Probably not. The county voted about 3:1 for Trump. I looked it up a few days ago.
Old-time cops were peace officers.
Today’s cops are law enforcement officers.
That’s a significant change, from peace to enforcement.
That’s more than just unfortunate. It’s a tragedy. Police are, of course, vital to society. And their job is getting more and more difficult each day. Yet many cops alienate law-abiding citizens with unnecessary rudeness and bullying. We are their allies. That too is getting more and more difficult.
Let’s see, REPORTER arrested while doing a live-shot at A PRESS CONFERENCE.
Things that make you go WTH.
Doocy better keep an eye open.................
I gotta agree. If the cops had just escorted the reporter out to the sidewalk, then perhaps a minor reprimand and some retraining would be in order.
But this reporter was arrested, and thrown in a jail cell. He lost his freedom. This is a direct assault on the First Amendment. So, yes. It’s a big deal and deserves a big lawsuit.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/journalist-arrested-reporting-press-conference-derailment-cleanup/story?id=96999127
If this is accurate, then he was asked to stop, wrapped up his segment, stopped, and was THEN arrested.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/09/reporter-arrested-ohio-governor-press-conference-newsnation-evan-lambert/11218367002/
This is not going to go well for the police.
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