Amy Goodman arrest warranted issue: Reporter who filmed dog attacks on Dakota pipeline protesters

[Liberty Belle]

http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4112656-reporter-who-documented-guard-dogs-charged-trespassing-pipeline-protest

Outrageous. Is there a legal, constitutional or journalism rights expert here? Are these charges a violation of 1st amendment freedom of press rights?

Has any other journalist been arrested for trespassing to cover a breaking story where coverage could not be obtained any other way? Her footage was important proof of the brutality of the security guards' attacks on Native Americans.

<A reporter from Democracy Now! who documented security personnel with guard dogs working for Dakota Access Pipeline is facing criminal trespassing charges in Morton County.

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Amy Goodman of New York for a Class B misdemeanor, according to court documents.

Goodman, a reporter for the independent news program, can be seen on news footage from Sept. 3 documenting the clash between protesters and private security personnel with guard dogs at a Dakota Access construction site, including footage showing people with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth. >

[Rex]

1. Criminal trespassing. Doesn't matter her job description.

Sounds like a bogus charge thrown out there to distract from the real issue.

[malaise]

2. Well done Amy

We've got your back

[womanofthehills]

3. It's all about the money for North Dakota - that bad lady is trying to take away our money

The oil, gas and pipeline taxes are always for the schools - somehow they think it makes it better.

The pipeline will translate into millions in state and local revenues during the construction phase and an estimated $129 million annually in property and income taxes.
The pipeline will generate an estimated $50 million annually in property taxes and nearly $74 million in sales taxes to the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois – for services to support schools, roads, emergency services and more.

This is from Energy Transfer's web page
http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/

[Red Mountain]

9. just another revenue source......

They'll use this source to cut taxes elsewhere.

The schools never see the windfall.

[womanofthehills]

4. For civil disobedience the pipeling company will sue you too -

Pipeline owners sue protesters -

Dakota Access LLC filed a lawsuit against Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman David Archambault II and other protesters, seeking restraining orders and unspecified monetary damages.

The protesters “have created and will continue to create a risk of bodily injury and harm to Dakota Access employees and contractors, as well as to law enforcement personnel and other individuals at the construction site,” the company wrote in court papers.

Archambault was among several protesters charged last week with disorderly conduct or criminal trespass at the construction site near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2016/08/15/pipeline-owners-sue-protesters/88808264/

[misterhighwasted]

5. This pic from 1963 comes to mind.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1071788.1336051075!/img/httpImage/image.jpg

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Soon only corporations will have rights.

[Liberty Belle]

7. At Ferguson a Wash. Post reporter was charged with trespass, too:

He was sitting in a McDonald's restaurant at the time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/10/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer/?utm_term=.4a200892d48d

I checked elsewhere and the charges are still pending. This seems like a pattern of press intimidation. The Justice Dept. should step in both places.

[suffragette]

8. Sounds like they want to intimidate her into not covering story

I think this will not turn out the way they planned.

[Solly Mack]

10. Good on Amy Goodman.

[rug]

11. The maximum penalty is thirty days and $1,500.

6. Class B misdemeanor, for which a maximum penalty of thirty days' imprisonment, a fine of one thousand five hundred dollars, or both, may be imposed.

http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t12-1c32.pdf#nameddest=12p1-32-01

It's a bogus charge.

[ManiacJoe]

12. It is the correct charge.

She knew the charge was coming long before she got out of the vehicle. It is just a business expense for her.