Shareblue Media reporter violently arrested while covering Gillespie

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Shareblue Media reporter violently arrested while covering GOP nominee for Virginia governor






Shareblue Media reporter violently arrested while covering GOP nominee for Virginia governor
By Jess McIntosh |
OCTOBER 31, 2017
Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark has been harassed, ejected from public events, and prevented from covering Republican Ed Gillespie's campaign for governor of Virginia. Then he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by six police officers.


After months of being harassed by Ed Gillespie’s campaign for simply trying to ask the Republican gubernatorial nominee questions, Shareblue Media reporter Mike Stark was violently arrested Saturday while filming the annual Annandale parade.

Gillespie has repeatedly dodged questions from Stark about his increasingly racist campaign, uncomfortable endorsement from Donald Trump, and his use of his position in the Bush White House to do the bidding of his corporate lobbying clients.

The evasion came to a head when Stark stood filming Gillespie’s campaign vehicle as it pulled up to the Annandale parade.

A Fairfax County Mason District police officer demanded that Stark cease filming the vehicle and move back farther than the 20-yard distance already separating him from the vehicle. He was accompanied by a woman who had raised an objection to Stark’s presence at a Gillespie campaign event just the evening priorAfter a brief back and forth, during which the police officer made clear that Stark would not be able to ask the gubernatorial candidate any questions at the public campaign event, Stark responded “f— this.” At that point, the officer moved to handcuff Stark.

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[democratisphere]

1. Police way over reached on this situation and actually decided to cancel the First Amendment.

Gillespie is running for office on a redumbliCON pro-racist platform. How low can redumbliCONs go?!

[ehrnst]

2. And there are "progressives" in VA opposing Northam, the Dem candidate

"Our Revolution" and Sanders refuse to endorse Northam, who defeated their preferred candidate Tom Perriello in the primary.

Perriello himself immediately swung into gear supporting Northam, because it seems that he wants actually wants Democrats to win.

[DK504]

3. Illegal arrest. Police brutality,

theft, the list will go on and on if he sues for this insane situation.