ABC reporter arrested in Denver taking pictures of senators, big donors

Hmm.. anything to do with the Bilderberg Group?

one down and only a few hundred to go.

According to the ABC website the Sheriff's said that the hotel owns the sidewalk. Is this true? If it's public property the arrest was unjust. If they did own the sidewalk then this isn't even newsworthy.

This is fucking BULLSHIT! What has happened to our country?

It's getting to the point where nothing is going to change until a citizen killed right before our eyes.

On the other hand this is what the press should expect after sleeping with their thumbs up their ass for the last seven years.

BTW, who are the senators?

Once again, the police are breaking the law to enforce the law.

Right now the only freedom you have in Denver right now is : The freedom to do what you're told...

What a perversion of democracy....

Ride on!

This doesn't make any sense. Paparzzi gets away with this shit all the time, and when this guy does something newsworthy, he gets put in the can? What bunch of crap.

Aren't the police suppose to "trespass" you from the premiss's. You usually get a verbal warning or the police make you sign a paper. Shouldn't he have been asked to cease taking pictures? The action taken against him was clearly a strong warning, and it went straight to the top.

Where is a zoom lens when you need one?

I hope more demonstrators and reporters push the envelope of the law these coming weeks. I hope every incident gets recorded. Most of all, I hope something significant happens that might wake people up!

There is absolutely no possibility that the hotel or cops were in the right here. The sidewalk is a public space and don't ever let anyone tell you differently. This reporter's First Amendment rights were violated, period. Got him out of the way, though, didn't it?

It would not surprise me to see a lawsuit come out of this one, since this was a major news organization. On the other hand, it would not surprise me if they didn't sue for exactly the same reason.

When stuff like this happens, our country is doomed. I know my Grandfather would never have believed his eyes if he saw law enforcement being HIRED like they are today.

I guess the First Ammendment expired or something... What the hell?

well after all, it has been 40 years. maybe y'all are too young to remember Chicago 1968.
lawsuits? the media is going to sue?
then what? they don't get 'access'.

What happened to the pictures he took?

I just watched the video (after reading the article) and I am even more outraged!

I think he was on the sidewalk and there was a second photographer on the grassy knoll...

They'll take this to court, and maps of the scene will be entered into evidence, and then the charges will be dropped.

Well, if you were a questionable political-type possibly on the take wouldn't you use your authority to have those interested in exposing the truth about you to millions arrested too?

Come on, be reasonable.

Why does the government of the default country into which I was born have to suck so much in my lifetime?

If the system were redesigned to get money out of politics, imagine how much better the style and efficiency of government policy would be.

As it is, the system breeds corruption in its basic design. Lobbyists weren't part of the plan when this country's government was (re)built.

I still say we should just let Google run things and be done with it.

Google Shmoogle...

It doesn't matter who you give the reins to, there will always be a whip in the other hand.

This all once again highlights the fact that when there wasn't such a gap between the haves and havenots, this type of incident was rare instead of commonplace.

I'm sorry to hijack this story like this but I've got a good reason.
I just posted a story about John Mccain's son quitting his position on the board of directors of a bank that is reportedly in line to be taken over by the feds entitled "Something Fishy In Arizona?". It was immediately dropped from the board and viewable only on my profile page.It also won't come up on a search. I don't care if it makes t.v. or not but I do think everyone should have a chance to look at it. This is not the first time this has happened and when I ask the staff about it they always tell me because it's viewable on my profile page it didn't get dropped. But who the hell is going to see it there?
What do you guys think?

whom is this current.tv serving anyways. There is no good reason to drop a story like the Arizona future bank scandal being covered up before ir can become a scandal....hello, why was this story censored on current.tv?

Don't you love that pig with the cigar in his mouth, violating the First Amendment rights of a reporter with that disgusting roll of tobacco dripping from his ugly lips. Just love it.

why am I not surprised...