Asa Eslocker Was Investigating the Role of Lobbyists and Top Donors at the Convention
By BRIAN ROSS - Aug. 27, 2008
DENVER -- Police in Denver arrested an ABC News producer today as he and a camera crew were attempting to take pictures on a public sidewalk of Democratic senators and VIP donors leaving a private meeting at the Brown Palace Hotel.
Police on the scene refused to tell ABC lawyers the charges against the producer, Asa Eslocker, who works with the ABC News investigative unit.
(Click here to watch video of the arrest.)
A cigar-smoking Denver police sergeant, accompanied by a team of five other officers, first put his hands on Eslocker's neck, then twisted the producer's arm behind him to put on handcuffs.
A police official later told lawyers for ABC News that Eslocker is being charged with trespass, interference, and failure to follow a lawful order. He also said the arrest followed a signed complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel.
Eslocker was put in handcuffs and loaded in the back of a police van which headed for a nearby police station.
Video taken at the scene shows a man, wearing the uniform of a Boulder County sheriff, ordering Eslocker off the sidewalk in front of the hotel, to the side of the entrance.
The sheriff's officer is seen telling Eslocker the sidewalk is owned by the hotel. Later, he is seen pushing Eslocker off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic, forcing him to the other side of the street.
It was two hours later when Denver police arrived to place Eslocker under arrest, apparently based on a complaint from the Brown Palace Hotel, a central location for Democratic officials.
During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."
Eslocker was released late today after posting $500 bond.
Eslocker and his ABC News colleagues are spending the week investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors at the convention for a series of Money Trail reports on ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson."
Click Here for the Investigative Homepage.
ABC reporter arrested in Denver
by John Doe 22 Replies latest jw friends
-
John Doe
-
yknot
...disturbing...
-
asilentone
.....outrageous.......
-
Hope4Others
Sounds unreasonable that they would own the sidewalk, most frontal sidewalks are city owned...
h40 -
Tired of the Hypocrisy
Sounds like gestapo tactics to me.
Oh and about The Brown Palace Hotel....
That just sounds nasty
-
UnConfused
Wow. It was like the Goon Squad
-
buffalosrfree
That incident should spark a multi-muillion dollar suit against the Brown Hotel and the Denver Police Department. The sidewalks are owned by hotel maybe but the easement they are in fact open for people to pass through at any time, thereby being public property belonging to the city? Sue the hell out of them and have an expose so that the American people will start waking up and realize our government is owned by big business and the bribing lobbyists. ABC needs to do some real investigations ala 60 minutes in the old days. Big business will of course get involved and threaten to pull their advertising dollars if such and such is done and if that happens that also should be reported. but watch this will probably in all reality be swept under the rug.
-
Yizuman
You see that cigar chomping asshole of a cop?
The whole shebang will get sued, count on it.
Yiz -
Satanus
'investigating the role of corporate lobbyists and wealthy donors'
Obviously, the dems aren't for the common man, either. Hope they sue for a BILLION dollars. That should get some attention.
S -
White Dove
I'm a dem, but this is outrageous! Sidewalks are owned by the city but might be paid for by the hotel.
Geez. The cops really pushed the line here.