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Post by Red Rackham on Nov 10, 2022 15:28:13 GMT
Rishi Sunak has joined police chiefs in calling for press freedom after three journalists were arrested while reporting on the Just Stop Oil protests. Charlotte Lynch, of LBC, said she spent five “terrifying” hours in a police cell, a day after the documentary-maker Rich Felgate and the photographer Tom Bowles were arrested on the M25 in Hertfordshire. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/journalists-arrested-covering-just-stop-oil-protests-on-m25-gjqvxtjsbThe article goes on to say; Lynch had been reporting from a road bridge over the M25 when she was approached by two officers. After showing them her press card and explaining she was reporting on the demonstration, the officers confiscated her phone put her in handcuffs and arrested her on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance. Hertfordshire police later said 'An independent force will examine our approach to these arrests'. The 'officers' in question should at the very least receive a bollocking and be removed from front line duty until they have acquired some common sense. Idiots. |
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Post by Handyman on Nov 10, 2022 19:14:11 GMT
Rishi Sunak has joined police chiefs in calling for press freedom after three journalists were arrested while reporting on the Just Stop Oil protests. Charlotte Lynch, of LBC, said she spent five “terrifying” hours in a police cell, a day after the documentary-maker Rich Felgate and the photographer Tom Bowles were arrested on the M25 in Hertfordshire. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/journalists-arrested-covering-just-stop-oil-protests-on-m25-gjqvxtjsbThe article goes on to say; Lynch had been reporting from a road bridge over the M25 when she was approached by two officers. After showing them her press card and explaining she was reporting on the demonstration, the officers confiscated her phone put her in handcuffs and arrested her on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance. Hertfordshire police later said 'An independent force will examine our approach to these arrests'. The 'officers' in question should at the very least receive a bollocking and be removed from front line duty until they have acquired some common sense. Idiots. I think a Press Photographer was arrested as well, he was not pleased either, and I don't blame him. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Nov 10, 2022 19:25:02 GMT
Considering another force is investigating these arrests I wonder, depending on the outcome of that investigation, whether the arrested journalists might consider suing the police for wrongful arrest. I think it's something they should definitely consider.
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Post by Handyman on Nov 10, 2022 19:37:04 GMT
I think they may well have good grounds to sue for Unlawful Arrest and Unlawful Detention
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2022 5:52:11 GMT
More rights being removed.
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Post by Fairsociety on Nov 12, 2022 9:54:36 GMT
The police weren't happy that reporters were reporting how crap they are at their jobs.
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Post by johnofgwent on Nov 17, 2022 12:35:27 GMT
Now when I checked the story the tale was they were arrested after saying the just stop oilers tipped them off about where it was happening.
And what sort of ‘press reporters’ were they ? Did the photographer have an account with Reuters or the PA into which they could upload their work ? If not, why not ?
My daughter did a course on photographic art and shared the course facilities with a group wanting to work on documentary photography. One day she went into the college to find a Porsche in the student parking area.
Over the previous weekend One of the documentary photographers went up to London to cover the student protests going. He was standing in the street where some prize asshole had just thrown a fire extinguisher off a rooftop causing mass havoc when out of the corner of his eye he spotted a limo and a couple of plod outriders
He wondered what the hell they were doing in a war zone but reached for his camera and just had the back window in focus when a huge rock hit it, cracking it.
You may have seen pictures of the then Duchess Of Cornwall now Queen Consort shitting a brick as this rock hit her car.
He was the owner of at least one and the loot he made bought the car. Admittedly used not new but hey…
Since hearing that and hearing that even a student wannabe had the foresight to arrange the means to sell anything of value I ask again, did that photographer have such arrangements if freelance, or if paid staff, who were his employers. If he has neither, one must wonder what degree of professional he was …
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