Poll Watcher To New Black Panther Party Videographer: 'Don't F**k Up The Story' (VIDEO)
Ryan J. Reilly
TPM Muckraker
January 28, 2011
Stephen Robert Morse was a freelance journalist and videographer working as a poll watcher for the local Republican Party in Philadelphia in 2008 when he got the call of his lifetime.
Members of the New Black Panther Party, he was told, were standing outside a polling place in an overwhelmingly African-American section of the city.
He shot a few minutes of video that day. One of the videos, showing two New Black Panther Party members standing outside of the polling place -- and one of them holding a nightstick -- went viral and was the underpinning of a voter intimidation case brought in the waning days of the Bush administration. That case has since exploded into a political controversy for the Obama Justice Department.
A second video shows cops showing up and taking the two men aside. But there was one part of the video that Election Journal, a website focusing on allegations of voter fraud run by a Republican strategist, didn't see fit to post.
In the extended version of the footage, posted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this month, a police officer tells Morse to back off. That's when the commotion begins.
(More here.)
TPM Muckraker
January 28, 2011
Stephen Robert Morse was a freelance journalist and videographer working as a poll watcher for the local Republican Party in Philadelphia in 2008 when he got the call of his lifetime.
Members of the New Black Panther Party, he was told, were standing outside a polling place in an overwhelmingly African-American section of the city.
He shot a few minutes of video that day. One of the videos, showing two New Black Panther Party members standing outside of the polling place -- and one of them holding a nightstick -- went viral and was the underpinning of a voter intimidation case brought in the waning days of the Bush administration. That case has since exploded into a political controversy for the Obama Justice Department.
A second video shows cops showing up and taking the two men aside. But there was one part of the video that Election Journal, a website focusing on allegations of voter fraud run by a Republican strategist, didn't see fit to post.
In the extended version of the footage, posted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this month, a police officer tells Morse to back off. That's when the commotion begins.
(More here.)
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To liberals - a person from an activist group with a nightstick outside of a polling place - no problem. A videographer filming it - bad.
What am I missing?
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