U.S. Park Police Harass Journalist for Recording Cop Car Lights Before Calling his Job and Complaining

By Carlos Miller

A journalist was harassed by U.S. Park police for video recording police lights on top of a patrol car from a public sidewalk in Washington D.C. Friday.

Officer T.W. Twiname chased after Arash Arabasadi as he was walking into his girlfriend?s building, demanding to know his name.

Arabasadi, who works for Voice of America and teaches journalism at Howard University, provided his first name, but then had second thoughts when the cops started jotting his name down in a notepad.

?Can I ask why you?re taking this report?? Arabasadi asked.

?Once you give me this information, I will explain everything to you, ok,? Twiname responded.

?Am I under arrest?? Arabasadi asked.

?Nope.?

?Then I?m going back inside.?

And he did.

But he came back out to ask the cop for his name and badge number.

?Do you make it a habit to harass citizens who are just out here taking pictures and video?? Arabasadi asked.

Twiname told him to have a nice day and walked away.

Twiname then contacted the human resources department at Voice of America to complain about Arabasadi.

So if you want to complain about Twiname, call his lieutenant at (202) 426-7716.
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Carlos Miller runs the website Photography is not a Crime

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this is fucked up and most definitly needs to stop but is nothing compared to all the other shit these fucking assholes pull and are constantly allowed to get away with on a hourly/daily bases. 703 285 1000 speak to sgt. block, sgt. locascio ... lt. alan griffith ...

the number you posted gets answered by someone referring me to call back in daytime hours to the above number

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Rand Paul Tries to Get Journalist Fired and Arrested

by Michael Suede

An RT reporter was threatened by capitol police and the Senate Relations Committee after asking Rand Paul about his endorsement of Mitt Romney. ?The police threatened to remove all of RT?s press passes for all of their reporters and arrest the journalist in question.

Luke Rudkowski talks with Abby Martin of MediaRoots.org and RT about U.S. Senator Rand Paul's attempt to get her arrested and stripped of her press credentials for asking him tough questions in the Capitol building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtO5INu-VY4

A week after our video with Abby Martin came out on YouTube, the RT office, where Abby works, got an ominous phone call from the Senate Media Relations Committee. The Committee was acting on behalf of Rand Paul and threatened both Abby and the entire RT news organization. The threats included ambiguous "charges" for violating the rules of the Committee floor, Abby's possible arrest and the termination of her and the entire office's press credentials.

After a month of meetings and deliberation, the Senate Media Relations office backed down and did not make good on any of their threats.

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His videos on the YouTubes are fantastic.
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Abby Martin is really easy on the eyes!

@Peter, since when was Rand Paul supposedly a Libertarian? Besides, even if he was, what's up with this very telling story? Shouldn't the truth be known, no matter what false paradigm some politician falls under?

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