Rep. Peter King ‘Manhunters’ Video Sparks U.S. Marshals Probe
Source: Talking Points Memo
A video posted to the YouTube account of Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has sparked an investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service into why a videographer accompanying the New York Republican was allowed to film inside private residences against a federal policy.
Shortly after noon on Tuesday, a tweet from Kings account linked to an eight minute video of a ride-along with a fugitive task force including U.S. marshals on Monday. It showed King, the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, joining police as they broke down doors and arrested a suspected fugitive. The video carried the logo of the Manhunters reality TV show and featured one of its stars, marshals commander Lenny DePaul.
After TPM made inquiries about the video with Kings office, it was marked private and no longer available to the public on YouTube. Later, the video was removed from YouTube entirely.
A shorter version, with almost a minute of footage cut out, was posted later in the day, and tweeted from Kings account. Clips of an officer kicking in a door, a joke about how King got a suspect and an officer describing to King how he kicked someone, perhaps the suspect, off a ladder were cut out.
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Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Please tell me his district doesn't actually LIKE this shit.
libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)IRA opposed the war in Iraq Some terrorism is ok in his book. Some parts of Long Island are pretty conservative.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)provincial. And if I were to spell out what keeps him in office, the thread would get kicked to I/P.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)imagine...my...surprise...
annabanana
(52,791 posts)It's a few very large, very fundamentalist Temples. But it plays out the same way.
DFW
(54,437 posts)King was the one who, on election day 2004, said, from the White House, "It's all over
but the counting, and we'll take care of the counting."
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."--Josef Stalin
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I remember Alexandra Pelosi's "Travels With George" documentary on the 2000 election. She interviewed a boozed-up Rep. King, who told her on film "It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting."
How many votes did he get from the repugs for the 9-11 First Responders Health Bill that he co-sponsored? Around 9. He was too busy suiting up for a raid.