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Group wants reporter's charges dropped
The group said in a statement Thursday that Eslocker was in Denver for the Democratic National Convention. He was collecting video footage in front of Brown Palace Hotel when a Denver sheriff's officer asked him to move.
Video allegedly shows the officer pushing Eslocker into oncoming traffic after he did not immediately comply, the group said. ABC News said Denver Police arrived two hours later and arrested Eslocker.
"The use of unnecessary force and the arrest of a journalist who was reporting an important political story is deeply troubling and unacceptable," Reporters Without Borders said. "The attempts at intimidation that were evident in the captured images of Eslocker's arrest simply because he refused to leave a shared, publicly used space reflect negatively on the Denver police and sheriff's departments' commitment to uphold a journalist's right to gather important news."
Eslocker was charged with trespassing, interference and refusing to obey a lawful order. He was released after posting a $500 bond.
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This news arrived on: 08/29/2008
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08-30-2008 13:44
AnneB-Illinois wrote:
Reporter's Rights
The video he was taking was supposedly of Dems (senators, representatives) at a party with lobbyists! Like we don't know that all the big lobbyists are there throwing parties. Like we all don't know that every politician is beholden to someone and Barack Obama is no different! His campaign excoriated a Chicago radio station that had an interview with Stanley Kurtz, who was looking at the Annenberg Papers to see what, if anything, Barack Obama did when he and Bill Ayers were working together at the Annenberg Challenge. There seems to be no such thing as free speech if it tries to show the truth about Obama! Makes you wonder what elese they are covering up and what might come out when it's too late.
08-30-2008 11:12
Willie D wrote:
Reporters rights
Mkes you wonder what they don't want you to see there, doesn't it? Was he blocking traffic? Or, in the way of a business? We don't get very good reporting of minor details that would give us a clear picture, but if he was in the right, and they are suppressing reporting for any other reason, then we have a serious violation of rights. I WANT to know what is happening and would love to hear the Denver Police and the Sherriff department's attempt to explain why they took the action they did.
Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are mainstays of AMERICA!
Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are mainstays of AMERICA!
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