It's happened again. Another photog has been assaulted in the field, this time by an off duty Cleveland police officer. One of our photogs, Channel 3 videographer Craig Roberson was shooting a story with his reporter Lydia Esparra on Cleveland school kids behavior at Tower City when they were invited to shoot video inside a store at the mall. Perfectly ok for the store to do.Two off duty officers saw the crew inside and confirmed that the crew was indeed invited in and that was deemed ok with the officers. A third officer showed up and uttered the above title of this post. He then proceeded to grab the camera and shove it to the ground, damaging the camera and injuring Craig in the process.
Here is the link to the story with video goodness.
Then afterwards a Tower City PR hack shows up and puts her hand over the camera and tells Craig that what happened to him, didn't really happen to him.
Yeah..ok..whatever.
Craig kept his cool through out the whole situation. I have to say that I'm really impressed with his calm demeanor. There is no word on what Craig or the station will do about seeking charges or an apology from the Cleveland Police Department or Tower City.
1 comment:
Amazing! I didn't see this piece. You all do lead a pretty interesting life. I wonder why the police officer didn't ask a few questions before just going over there and messing with the camera man the way he did? I guess it is the theory....Shoot and ask questions later...huh? I hope the policeman gets in trouble for doing this. Not very professional at all!
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