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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 03:49 AM Mar 2016

CBS Journalsit falsely arrested for resisting arrest at Trump rally



CBS News president David Rhodes says the network’s campaign embed journalist Sopan Deb, who was detained by police during the chaos after the cancellation of a rally by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, did not resist–and identified himself as a journalist.

“On tape you see he did not resist, identified himself as working press,” Rhodes wrote on Twitter Sunday morning. Rhodes says Deb was handcuffed and later charged with resisting arrest.
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CBS Journalsit falsely arrested for resisting arrest at Trump rally (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 OP
It all comes back to Bite the weak Press in the Ass zebonaut Mar 2016 #1
Don't Press need to display their pass so they are more easily identifiable? Lodestar Mar 2016 #2

Lodestar

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2. Don't Press need to display their pass so they are more easily identifiable?
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 03:56 AM
Mar 2016

Not saying it was his fault, but seems like it would be a good idea.

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