"Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested on Monday by St. Paul police while covering a protest outside the Republican National Convention." Watch the video of the arrest, her press credentials dangle from her neck as the 51 year old reporter is carted away. From Wikipedia: "Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957 in Washington, D.C.) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist and author. A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program." Interview with the Reporter, Amy Goodman, a couple of days later.
5 comments:
1. I bet the video doesn't show her repeatedly doing the opposite of what she and the crowd was being told what to do.
2. And if she did not do what she was instructed to do, the only way they could get her attention, was to arrest her. In a crowd control situation, you have to keep control or you really have a mess.
3. Being a member of the press doesn't make you immune from arrest. I know press credentials are fun, but those aren't a free pass to disobey the cops!
4. I don't think St. Paul police are as experienced as we are in crowd control.
That's great. Follow directions, and you won't have a problem.
P.S. Wash your hair woman.
Anon:
First off. You don't know my sex.
Secondly. I don't want to be in a car with you if you get stopped for speeding. You may not follow instructions and get me arrested.
Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
By Amy Goodman, Truthdig
Posted on September 5, 2008, Printed on September 6, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/97632/
The attack on and arrest of me and the “Democracy Now!” producers was not an isolated event. A video group called I-Witness Video was raided two days earlier. Another video documentary group, the Glass Bead Collective, was detained, with its computers and video cameras confiscated. On Wednesday, I-Witness Video was again raided, forced out of its office location. When I asked St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington how reporters are to operate in this atmosphere, he suggested, “By embedding reporters in our mobile field force.”
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thanks for putting this up.
wonder what it's like to live in a free country.
ps: i see you enabled moderation. good idea.
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