Cop Arrests NBC Reporters, Says “Your First Amendment Right Can Be Terminated” “I don’t care about no damn lawsuit” officer yells at media: Two NBC journalists were handcuffed and threatened by Chicago police after attempting to report on the murder of a 6-year-old girl yesterday, NBC Chicago reports. Another NBC journalist was also detained by police outside Mt. Sinai Hospital, where the girl had been taken following a fatal shooting during city wide violence over the weekend. Police were called to the hospital shortly after reporters arrived on the scene. The journalists said they has already moved away from a public sidewalk and across the street at the request of the police. One police officer was then caught on camera telling other members of the media “Your First Amendment right can be terminated if you’re creating a scene or whatever. Your First Amendment right has got limitations.” When the reporters asked for clarification on how they were creating a scene, the officer replied, “Your presence is creating a scene.” “This is what we do for a living!” one reporter replied, before another added”You’ve got a lawsuit coming.” “I don’t care about no damn lawsuit!” the officer fired back. “F*ck a lawsuit. Just ’cause you sue doesn’t mean you’re going to win.” Photographer Donte Williams and WGN Reporter Dan Ponce were then handcuffed and briefly detained by the officer, who threatened them with trespassing charges. The police say they acted following claims that the …
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Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other issues showed no signs of giving up their campaign Monday, with organizers urging participants to dress up as what they called corporate zombies and to take part in a rally against police brutality. The arrests of 700 people on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend fueled the anger of the protesters camping in a Manhattan park and sparked support elsewhere in the country as the campaign entered its third week. Occupy Wall Street started with fewer than a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, near the city’s financial center. But a day after Saturday’s mass arrests, hundreds of protesters were resolute and like-minded groups in other cities had joined in. Group spokesman Patrick Bruner urged protesters to dress up as zombies and eat Monopoly money to let financial workers “see us reflecting the metaphor of their actions.” As the encampment slowly began waking up Monday morning, several dozen police officers stood in formation across the street. One camper set up a table with tubes of makeup and stacks of fake money and applied white makeup to the face of a young woman. John Hildebrand, 24, an unemployed teacher from Norman, Okla., sat up in his sleeping bag around 10 am He said he arrived Saturday after getting a cheap plane ticket to New York. “My issue is corporate influence in politics,” he said. “I would like to eliminate corporate financing from politics.” One supporter, William Stack …
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