Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.
A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker’s neck, then twisted the producer’s arm behind him to put on handcuffs…Video taken at the scene shows a man, wearing the uniform of a Boulder County sheriff, ordering Eslocker off the sidewalk in front of the hotel, to the side of the entrance.
The sheriff’s officer is seen telling Eslocker the sidewalk is owned by the hotel. Later, he is seen pushing Eslocker off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic, forcing him to the other side of the street.
A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel.
During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, “You’re lucky I didn’t knock the f..k out of you.”
Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson.”
Welcome to the Obama Age.
Found by Wayne Bronikowski.
#30
“Welcome to the Obama Age”
Your response well founded. I think John’s
trying real hard to annoy with a video and a blurb to get hits. Ah – who knows.
i still have to ask…
LOOK at the shoulder patches…
HOW many different COPS are there…
and the GUY still acts like a security officer.
Careful John your incredible bias is showing. Welcome to the Obama age my A**. A story like this gets reported here almost on a weekly basis. Cops who think they can do anything they want part 999.
This is about the lobyists who control the government. The media probably won’t run into this during the Republican Convention. The media is controlled by the MIC so this is unlikely. Can you imagine Fox News trying to blow the whistle on big Republican donors?
It is sort of sad that John’s religion is politics.
What in the world is with all the whining about “the democratic apologists aren’t objecting to this!”?
These same “apologists” who frequent this board are the same people who find the weekly (almost daily, anymore) instances of police misconduct completely reprehensible.
The simple answer could be that the police are so blatantly in the wrong, that nothing needs to be said.
I do smell a lawsuit. The scary thing is that Officer McSmalldick will still have a job at the end of the day.
TYPE A LITTLE HARDER, maybe things will change while you sit on your ass.
#68
Were you standing when you wrote that?
All I know is that if this were something done by Republicans ABC would have ordered Asa and his crew to never approach these politicians beforehand.
That news story compliments this perfectly:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed139.html
Can ANYONE read the shoulder Badges??
Looks like ABC has yanked the video offline. Anybody know if it’s been mirrored anywhere?
[Just checked and the video is still there. – ed.]
# 35 Jägermeister, thank you for posting that. It puts it in perspective.
This is a complete lie and that guy deserved to be arrested.
Democrats don’t take money from special interest groups in secret meetings. Only Republicans do that.
#77, Remoh
You’re an effen retard. Why did the guy deserve to be arrested?