Occupied II
After self-described “anti-capitalist occupiers” took over an abandoned, but still privately owned, car dealership, the Chapel Hill, N.C., police sent in a SWAT team to arrest them for misdemeanor breaking and entering. The cops forced those standing outside — including Raleigh News and Observer reporter Katelyn Ferral, who had identified herself as a journalist and had been taking pictures — to lie face-down on the ground, handcuffed. Ferral was released after a half-hour — and after the events she was there to photograph were over. The town council voted to apologize for the arrest of Ferral and another journalist, but member Donna Bell dissented. “I don’t feel like I want to apologize for our police following security measures,” she said. (AC/Raleigh News and Observer, Raleigh Telegram) ...What kind of “security” is provided by handcuffing reporters to keep them from their jobs?Original Publication Date: 05 February 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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