Looks like the fix is really in with the corporate lobbyists and the big wig Dems... From ABC News Web Page
ABC Reporter Arrested
DENVER--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.
Asa Eslocker and his crew were on the sidewalk in front of the Brown Palace when a HUGE Boulder County Sheriff Deputy came up and started pushing Eslocker out into the street... ABC caught the whole thing on tape.... the videolink is in the story
I don't know what this all means... I caught the news over on Firedoglake... and looked it up on ABC's site... Eslocker was doing an investigative report on the cozy relations between corporate money and politicians... and some of the comments at FDL speculated that maybe this was ABC setting up a little see how corrupt the Dems are piece for running during the Repug convention..
But that does not matter.. because I am a photojournalist and I have been there... and if we really mean what we say we believe in about press freedom and all the rest, we should not let this go... I don't care of it was ABC, or a Fox crew... the cops came on like Nazi bullyboys.... you can see the Denver cops holding Eslocker by the neck when they arrest him....
If it can happen to him... it can happen to any of us...
I am tempted to call the City of Denver mayor's office and the Brown Palace Hotel... they made the formal written complaint and ask what the hell is going on when an accredited news crew is physically accosted by bully police tactics in broad daylight on a public street...
The Brown Palace is owned by a Dallas Group, Quorum Hotels Tony Farris President
and Tough Tony Farris is a apparently a good buddy of GWB....
Looks like the fascistas are hard at work as usual
UPDATE:
I forgot to post this link of FDL's Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald Blue Dog ATT Party Videotrying to interview arriving guests at the big ATT Honor Steny Hoyer night love fest for FISA and the BlueDogs... Jane caught Clenn's questions on camera, and they were asked to move by a Denver PD officer, who was pretty polite about the whole thing... I hate to imagine if the cops had manhandled Jane the way they did Asa today...