[IP] Cop tackles, punches journalist at polling place
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From: "Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi)" <Brock.Meeks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: November 1, 2004 12:57:00 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Cop tackles, punches journalist at polling place
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2004/11/01/
m1a_Henry_1101.html
A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and
arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who
tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's
headquarters.
About 600 people were standing in line waiting to vote early when James
S. Henry was charged with disorderly conduct for taking photos of
waiting voters about 3:30 p.m. outside the main elections office on
Military Trail near West Palm Beach.
A sheriff's spokesman and a county attorney later said the deputy was
enforcing a newly enacted rule from Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore
prohibiting reporters from interviewing or photographing voters lined
up outside the polls.
[snip]
"We're not going to let anyone interfere with the orderly conduct of
the elections process here," [Sheriff's spokesman Paul] Miller said.
[snip]
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