Posted on 03/01/2017 10:34:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
UPDATED: American journalist Tim Pool received a police escort out of the Rinkeby suburb of Stockholm on Wednesday after he and his colleague were followed by masked men, he told The Local.
"Several men started masking up and following us. Police told us to leave and had to escort us to our car," he wrote in a Twitter post on Wednesday.
"I started talking to the police. They told me some interesting things about the good they think they can do there, and then one of the other cops basically said 'I have a tip for you, look at what the men around you are doing'," Pool told The Local.
"We had noticed a bunch of people putting up their hoods, whispering to each other, so the cop was like 'maybe it would be smart if you were to leave now, that's my tip for you'. They got in their car to escort us out and we just had to walk alongside their vehicle, and they followed us to our car. As we were walking there were people following us, yelling things," he added.
A Stockholm police press spokesperson told The Local that they were aware of the tweets but were unable to find any specific reports filed about it on their system, though they would continue to look into it.
Frida Nordlöf, a police officer in the Järva district, later told regional Stockholm newspaper Mitt i that Pool and his colleague had not been escorted out of the area by police.
"We had extra officers on the ground because of a poetry evening in Rinkeby with a lot of visitors. When Tim Pool took out a camera and started filming a group of young people they pulled their hoods up and covered their faces and shouted at him to stop filming. The officers then told Tim Pool that it was not wise to stay there in the middle of the square and keep filming," she said.
"Then the patrol was going to Rinkeby Academy and that's where Pool's team had parked their car so it was more out of coincidence that they followed each other there."
Last week The Local reported from Rinkeby without incident following a night of car-burnings and rioting in the suburb.
Asked if his filming equipment may have triggered an interest in what he was doing in Rinkeby, Pool said he and his colleague did have a sizable camera on them, but they were not filming when groups started to gather, and that they had used the same equipment in Malmö's Rosengård suburb without issue.
"This was the most extreme thing that has happened, even though nothing really happened. It's just that something might have happened, and the police got agitated," he noted.
Describing himself as a "conflict and crisis journalist", Pool has been reporting in Sweden since last week. His visit included a trip to Malmö partially funded by Paul Joseph Watson, editor of conspiracy theory website Infowars, who promised to pay for a trip to the city for any journalist who claimed it was safe.
His plan now is to "go to other countries Trump called out claiming they were dangerous" after a brief visit to Gothenburg.
"I try to make sure these kind of things don't happen when we go in and we don't provoke these situations. It's part of the job, I've seen worse things, of course," he concluded.
No Islamic problem here, move along.
That photo!
“So we were filming some Swedes. I didn’t notice anything, but the cops did. I think they wanted to borrow our camera.” /s
It's no longer a theory when proven!
A riot gun makes all the difference. A snub .357 is pretty good. People don’t riot for any of the social or economic reasons. They do it because its fun.
You have to make it not fun.
Every face filmed should be run through Interpol and thru every pd rape book. People don’t just mask for no reason
Trump proved correct.
Again.
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If these muzzies are terrorizing the neighborhood the police, country and local, should go in SWAT style and clear them out or kill them on the spot. Load them on prison buses to some kind of prison camp until they can decide what to do with them. Obviously staying in EU is not an option.
Anyone, anywhere, putting on a mask is up to no good. Arrest or shoot them.
They are not called ski masks for no reason....
I thought it was because they were Polish.
Yeah, the cops were there for a poetry reading, THAT'S the ticket!
Did this story appear in any “American” papers?
Since the MSM pretends there are no no-go areas, they sure wouldn’t publicize this.
Tim Pool works for Fusion TV, which is owned by Univision. It’s a pretty obscure cable channel, so he’s essentially just a random American citizen.
Funny, Mr Kitty and I just watched this young man’s youtube video of the event and then I see this article.
Poetry reading my butt.
The solution to most of the worlds’ problems are actually very, very simple...people simply lack the GUTS to fix the problem especially when they profit from them.
It has to be frustrating to watch your country being sold out from under you and resisting the urge to drive thru these neighborhoods and scorch them.
Thank you - I forgot to post the link. Bad kitty. :-)
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