GOP candidate: I won’t answer questions from reporters, but I will have them handcuffed and detained

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201010180008


GOP candidate: I won’t answer questions from reporters, but I will have them handcuffed and detained

October 18, 2010 9:43 am ET by Eric Boehlert

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UPDATED: In a statement, the Miller campaign suggests that it didn't know Hopfinger was a blogger when guards handcuffed him. Instead, he was simply an "irrational" individual who had to be detained:

It is also important to note that the security personnel did not know that the individual they detained was a blogger who reporting on the campaign. To them, the blogger appeared irrational, angry and potentially violent.

But note this passage from the Alaska Daily News:

While Hopfinger was still in handcuffs, the guards attempted to prevent other reporters from talking to him and threatened them too with arrest for trespass.

It appears Miller's guards were ready to arrest lots and lots of journalists at Sunday's event.

[truebrit71]

1. Looks like Joe is going to be out of pocket again once this lawsuit gets settled...

..handcuffed without authority at a public meeting in a public area? That's called kidnapping...

[SargeUNN]

2. anyone else wonder where the "Freedom" claims

of these teabaggers went? oh yeah they gave it back to the corporations.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup:

[sufrommich]

4. Why hasn't there been an arrest? Makes no sense to me. nt