Black CNN Camerawoman Pelted With Peanuts At GOP Convention Speaks Out

[WilliamPitt]

Black CNN Camerawoman Pelted With Peanuts At GOP Convention Speaks Out
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The black CNN camerawoman who two Republican National Convention attendees threw nuts at earlier this week has spoken out, saying the incident did not surprise her “at all.”

“This is Florida and I’m from the Deep South. You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don’t think I should do,” Patricia Carroll, 34, told the Maynard Institute. An Alabama native, Carroll is now based in CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau.

After the attendees threw nuts at her and said, “This is how we feed animals,” Carroll told colleagues and CNN security about the incident. In a separate interview with Witches’ Brew, Carroll said the incident occurred around 3 p.m. Tuesday. She looked up and saw two men throwing peanuts at her, she said. The head of the delegation of an unidentified state told her the nut-throwers were likely not delegates, according to the Maynard Institute report.

CNN has been “behind me 100 percent,” Carroll said, thanking the network. CNN was initially tight-lipped about the incident, and has declined to provide much detail since. It published a sparse report online, saying there were multiple witnesses to the exchange. Wedneday evening, Wolf Blitzer reported the story on air, calling it “truly shocking.” CNN political analyst Donna Brazile said during the segment that she hopes the two attendees have their convention credentials revoked.

The rest: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/cnn-camerawoman-nuts-speaks.php

[cthulu2016]

1. Not delegates? Were they party officials? Security?

Fox reporters?

[LTR]

2. Possibly alternates

Read that in another article.

Regardless, one would have to be a hardcore party member to even get inside the building, unless they work there.

[pampango]

3. Great to see her name and personal testimony released. Here's a link to an article in Journal-isms.

Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who was assaulted with peanuts and called an animal by two attendees at the Republican National Convention, told Journal-isms on Thursday that "I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all."

Carroll, who agreed to be named for the first time, said she does not want her situation to be used for political advantage. "This situation could happen to me at the Democratic convention or standing on the street corner. Racism is a global issue," she said by telephone from Tampa.

Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, "This is what we feed animals." She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.

"I can't change these people's hearts and minds," Carroll added. "No, it doesn't feel good. But I know who I am. I'm a proud black woman. A lot of black people are upset. This should be a wake-up call to black people. . . . People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we're gone further than we have."

http://mije.org/richardprince/cnn-camerawoman-not-surprised-peanut-throwing#Carroll

[jsmirman]

4. K&R