A Washington Post reporter was detained and patted down while trying to cover a public event.
By Michael Calderone
Even as Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign has denied press credentials to news
organizations throughout the 2016 election season, journalists generally
have had another option: Get a ticket, like anyone else, and walk in.
But in a disturbing interaction Wednesday night,
private security, in tandem with local Milwaukee law enforcement,
detained and patted down Washington Post reporter Jose DelReal while
searching for his cellphone at a public event featuring GOP vice
presidential candidate Mike Pence. DelReal, who had already been denied
entry with the press, was then also prohibited from attending as a
member of the public.
Trump placed the Post on his campaign’s media blacklist last month in response to the paper running
a headline he considered unfair. The refusal to grant press credentials
to nearly a dozen news outlets, including Politico, BuzzFeed, The Daily
Beast, Univision and The Huffington Post, is unprecedented in American
presidential politics. The Trump campaign has also placed harsh restrictions on journalists’ movements at events, which have at times been enforced by the Secret Service.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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