Posted on 08/28/2008 2:38:21 AM PDT by Gondring
DENVER -- An ABC News producer was arrested outside a downtown hotel here Wednesday while he and a camera crew tried to shoot footage of corporate donors leaving a meeting with a group of Democratic senators.
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We expect to see this kind of behavior in Myanmar, not in Denver, Colorado, at a national political convention where a reporter is trying to videotape big-money donors trying to meet with elected officials," said ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider.
Footage of the incident showed one police officer constantly pushing Eslocker as the producer walked backwards across the street, and another officer placing his hand around Eslocker's neck. Eslocker kept saying that it was a public street and asking what law he was violating. Schneider said Esocker never entered the Brown Palace Hotel, where the meeting was taking place.
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So, does The Brown Palace own the sidewalk like they claim? Were they in the right in asking the officers to make this arrest, or should I ask to be taken off their e-mail list?
Big money donors donating money to politicians! Who’d a thunk it?
Welcome to the political reality of Obama the nearly-President: smiting out resistance and criticism.
Hitler and Stalin would be proud of Barack!
Push him in the street and then accuse him of impeding traffic?
Reporter or not, this is just not right.
They likely don't own the sidewalk, that's usually public property. In any case, they were wrong to ask for an arrest. It was a fine example of thurggery on the part of the police and a good demonstration of what democrats and their money people are really like.
A taste of life under a totalitarian democrat party regime, complete with scumbag thug gestapo enforcers.
Those cops look like union thugs...did you see the one “cop-er” with the cigar in his mouth....those couldn’t have been denver police...they were union...toughs...more like hit men...see them grab the reporter and hold him by the throat...usually the police won’t do that for standing on the sidewalk...
This is absolutely sick - this is a violation of the first amendment, pure and simple. Beyond that, they make a clear attempt to intimidate this man, surrounding him and grabbing him by the throat when he clearly was NOT a threat and had already cleared the area...
These are the same ones who are threatening to jail people over the Ayers ad...
This is totalitarianism, enforced by the “so-called” Democrat party.
Blatant police brutality. Formal complaints should be filed against these thugs, including the vermin with the big cigar.
Yeah, and I'm surprised the Democrat activists weren't all over him for smoking!!
Oh, but he was one of them... I forgot.
Don’t be so desperate and elect McCAIN instead of the liberal-fascists
Denver’s going to be paying somebody a lot of money. First amendment violation, false arrest, false imprisonment, reckless endangerment. A good attorney will rack up charges against the police faster than they can rack up charges against a civilian.
FYI, the Brown Palace is where the Clinton’s are staying.
ARTICLE IV. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY*
__________ *Cross references: Disturbance of the peace in parks, § 39-7.5; streets, sidewalks and other public ways, Ch. 49. State law references: Offenses against public peace, order and decency, C.R.S. 1973, 18-9-101 et seq.
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DIVISION 1. GENERALLY
Sec. 38-86. Obstruction of streets or other public passageways.(Code 1950, §§ 802.17, 841.1-2(6); Ord. No. 434-05, § 1, 6-20-05)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly:(a) Obstruct a highway, street, sidewalk, railway, waterway, building entrance, elevator, aisle, stairway, or hallway to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access or any other place used for the passage of persons, vehicles, or conveyances, whether the obstruction arises from the person's acts alone or from the person's acts and the acts of others; or(b) Disobey a reasonable request or order to move issued by an individual the person knows, or reasonably should know, to be a peace officer, a firefighter, or a person with authority to control the use of the premises, to prevent obstruction of a highway or passageway or to maintain public safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous proximity to a fire, riot, or other hazard.(2) For purposes of this section, "obstruct" means to render impassable or to render passage unreasonably inconvenient or hazardous.(3) It is an affirmative defense to charges brought under this section that the obstruction was authorized by a permit issued pursuant to this Code, or the Denver Building Code.
Good grief, he pushed the guy backwards out into traffic!
From the definition of “obstruct” it looks like the police were clearly in the wrong.
The cops in this incident were complete and total BROWN SHIRT A*OLES!!!
At least one of the cops sounded like he was from Chicago.
At least one of the cops sounded like he was from the Upper Midwest/North Central States region.
Chicago? Detroit?
Perhaps the MSM will finally awaken to the fact that with an obammy presidency they will be the first to go...
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