Posted on 10/25/2016 8:22:52 AM PDT by bigbob
O’Keefe was trying to prove Sen. Mary Landrieu was lying when she said her phone had been ringing all day from constituents about some issue.
The truth was she put the phone on hold and never talked to the public.
O’Keefe is a great journalist.
The cops were corrupt. They should have arrested Landrieu.
And that was because Landrieu's office was ignoring calls from constituents, claiming that the "phones were down". So, some "phone repairmen" showed up to have a look at them.
The Queen was not amused....
I second that! Judge Janine also has her on every frickin week. Also, click.
Mary Ann Marsh is almost as big a liar as the Hildebeast.
The last I knew, that’s called “Trespass”
If the intent was to commit a crime, it is called “Criminal Trespass” .
Neither of them are felonies in this State, just misdemeanors.
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I agree that these are not felonies, but “trespass” implies intrusion on property that the owner does not approve of.
Who in this case is the owner of the property? It’s not Landrieu; she holds no mortgage, title, or lease to the property in question. The people own the property.
I'm not familiar with the state law in that area, but the facts would not support such a charge in many jurisdictions.
Trespass is not generally chargeable against someone who is in a place open to the public, during hours when that location is open to the public unless that person has been asked to leave, or has a restraining order against them, or some other unusual circumstances.
In the wildly exaggerated way conservatives are always charged by the government. In contrast, Democrats who mishandle classified material aren't charged because they didn't have "intent".
At the time the government contended that O'Keefe and his two colleagues who used the ruse of being telephone repairmen to try to get footage of a Senator's staff saying their phones were fine while they were telling constituents their phones were broken were actually intending to tamper with the phone system -- because they were wearing phone repairman costumes.
Presumably those same federal agents would consider someone wearing a Barack Obama mask on Halloween to be "impersonating a federal officer".
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