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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReporter violently arrested while trying to film Virginia Gov. hopeful Ed Gillespie at public event
A reporter covering Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespies appearance at a town parade Saturday was violently arrested by a half-dozen police after a woman reportedly associated with the Gillespie campaign spoke to the officers.
Mike Stark, who covers Gillespies race for the site ShareBlue, was attempting to film Gillespie as he drove past during the annual Annandale Parade when he got into conflict with Fairfax County law enforcement over whether where he was standing counted as sidewalk or roadway.
Video of the encounter and arrest show a woman in red approach the officers and speak with them just prior to Starks arrest. ShareBlue reports the woman had raised an objection to Starks presence at a Gillespie campaign event just the evening prior. Gillespie campaign spokespeople did not respond to multiple requests for information on the womans connection to the campaign, instead directing all questions to police. Stark had hoped to ask Gillespie some questions during a public appearance, according to his employer.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Reporters like Rachel, etc., have to get the goods on the traitors NOW because soon they will be considered the enemy.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)Makes one wonder, why they are so fearful of reporters!
I so hope Ed Gillespie loses BIGLY!!!
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Looks like his raging pickup truck ad was no exaggeration.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)underpants
(182,730 posts)I read about this a few days ago. He has little or no agenda on his website. Reporters rarely know where he is going to be. He pops into fundraisers or events that only his followers know about (via text I think) very odd.
I am going to forward this to local stations to hopefully get some coverage. This and his association with Trump - at this late stage of the campaign- will hopefully finish him off.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)underpants
(182,730 posts)I've emailed it to all three local network affiliates.
maxrandb
(15,315 posts)Just like that shitbag that body slammed the reporter in Montana or some such backwards ass Podunk red state.
I hate to say it, but maybe if we beat the shit out of some Faux News reporter or hate radio host, we'd bring out more voters.
Americans seem to reward this kind of behavior
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Yeah, this seems very similar to me. Of course Gillespie will win now. He has to. He has released the violence the right suckles on.