{"id":170737,"date":"2011-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scm.ids-tech.net\/uncategorized\/absurd-charges-brought-against-reporters-covering-occupy-wall-street-movement.html"},"modified":"2017-11-21T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:11:22","slug":"absurd-charges-brought-against-reporters-covering-occupy-wall-street-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scm.bz\/en\/absurd-charges-brought-against-reporters-covering-occupy-wall-street-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement\u2019s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever it takes place, each tale has something in common,\u201d Reporters Without Borders said. \u201cIn all the cases brought to our attention, the persons concerned said they had identified themselves as journalists to the police, but to no avail. The attitude of law-enforcement officers supports the theory that not only the movement itself but also coverage of Occupy Wall Street is being obstructed. Are they doing everything possible to suppress news in which the public is clearly very interested? If so, the First Amendment has become a dead letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other question is the very variable nature of the charges \u2013 sometimes maintained, sometimes dropped \u2013 that are brought against these people for \u2018offences\u2019 that are essentially identical. In the name of the constitutionally-enshrined right to receive and impart news and information, we call on the courts to dismiss all the charges against individuals who have been covering these demonstrations peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporters Without Borders is aware of two such contrasting cases on 2 November, involving Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photographer Kristyna Wentz-Graff<\/strong><\/a> (photo) and freelance journalist and cartoonist Susie Cagle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wentz-Graff was released without charge after being arrested during a demonstration outside the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Cagle was held for a total of 14 hours in two different detention centres, and was charged with unlawful assembly, after being arrested in Oakland, California. She is due to appear in court in December.<\/p>\n

During the previous week\u2019s demonstrations in Oakland, police fired a rubber bullet at video-reporter Scott Campbell<\/strong><\/a>, 30, during a confrontation with protesters. Reported by the local press on 7 November, the incident has embarrassed the authorities, including the police, who have admitted to an \u201cunprovoked and inappropriate use of force.\u201d<\/p>\n

When 11 members of the Occupy Orlando collective were arrested during a protest in Orlando, Florida, on 6 November, two of the collective\u2019s media team were among those detained, depriving the movement of video coverage of the event.<\/p>\n

John Meador<\/strong> of the Nashville Scene Reporter<\/i><\/a> was arrested during a demonstration outside the state capitol in Nashville, Tennessee, on 30 October despite showing his press badge twice. He is now facing charges of \u201ccriminal trespass\u201d and \u201cpublic intoxication.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judicial fate of journalists who were arrested during the big initial Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York was equally varied. Detained for eight hours on 24 September because he had no press credential, John Farley<\/strong> of the magazine MetroFocus<\/i> was acquitted on a charge of \u201cdisorderly conduct\u201d on 2 November. But two journalists who were arrested on 1 October \u2013 New York Times<\/i> stringer Natasha Lennard<\/strong> and Kristen Gwynne<\/strong> of the AlterNet<\/i> website \u2013 were not so lucky.<\/p>\n

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