Posted on 02/21/2011 2:46:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
An angry mob attacked a reporter and a photojournalist Sunday, but it wasn't in the Middle East, it was in California.
The journalists were hit and pushed by family and friends of a young man who had been gunned down the night before outside an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Sacramento.
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In the footage, Lobertini can be seen approaching a handful of people standing by the memorial as Little recorded the encounter. A woman in glasses and a hoodie quickly begins yelling at the journalists, the video shows, as another in a white cap calmly asks the reporters to "just back off."
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A person who was at the incident, but did not participate in the violence, told the local news station that it was an emotional day and people were mourning the loss of a loved one.
"A lot of people, they're not in the right state of mind when going through something like this," Meghan Saffold said. "So you know, all I say is, when someone asks you something, that you should respect it and respect their wishes."
Authorities are looking at the video to determine if any charges need to be filed. No arrests have been made.
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When I was a teen, a classmate and her family were murdered.
The news media showed up at the murder scene and one even had the disgusting manners to ask one of the emergency personnel on site to uncover one of the bodies of the dead so they could get news footage.
The news media followed the guy she’d been dating to work, school, etc. He had absolutely no peace. When they found out the last person who’d seen her alive, they hounded her. Cameras were everywhere with newsies asking the most stupid questions: how does it make you feel?
I’m on the family’s side here. Obviously the news crew has every right to be on a public sidewalk, but it’s a matter of respecting other people. This family is mourning. Having a right doesn’t make it right.
I think they were violently attacked because they were with Fox news. They been racis to O baaaaa ma.
Really, the Left is insanely deranged in their absolute hatred of Fox News.
It is not alright to attack people except in self defense. The appropriately crude way to handle rude reporters is to cuss at their video camera and tell them in fifteen different ways what vultures they are, until they take the hint and leave.
I hope they are prosecuted for assualt. They should not get away with what they did.
The government bugged the men’s room in the local disco lounge,
and all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance.
But that don’t keep the boys from all the weapons they can scrounge
and all she wants to do is dance, dance, dance.
WAIT, WHAT?
Want a thought that’ll scar your memory for good?
I never will forget those nights
i wonder if it was a dream
remember how you drove me crazy?
remember how i made you scream?
Yeah, out there someone was screaming, “Oh, Don HENNNLLEEYY! Oh! Oh! Harder, Don Henley, harder!”
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