Bloomberg Spokesperson Admits Arresting Credentialed Reporters

Bloomberg Spokesperson Admits Arresting Credentialed Reporters, Reading The Awl
http://www.observer.com/2011/11/bloomberg-spokesperson-admits-arresting-credentialed-reporters-reading-the-awl/

Stu Loeser, Mayor Bloomberg’s spokesperson, just sent out a note regarding an Awl report listing the names of reporters arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests. In the email, reprinted below, he goes on the attack, noting that only 5 of the 26 reporters arrested are credentialed by the city, almost as if to distinguish between the rights of credentialed and non-credentialed reporters.
http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/25-arrested-reporters-and-what-they-do

And who were the actual, real, card-carrying, government certified reporters arrested? AP reporter Julie Walker and Patrick Hedlund from DNA Info were both issued Desk Appearance Tickets for Disorderly Conduct, while Paul Lomax of DNA Info and Karen Matthews and Seth Wenig, both of the AP, had their arrests for trespassing voided.

Full memo after the jump. Do enjoy, and, don’t forget: Bloomberg’s spokesperson reads The Awl. Be less stupid:


(snip)
One more thing. Of the five reporters with valid press credentials who were arrested, three were arrested for trespassing and had their arrest voided. As the Associated Press and others reported, there’s no doubt that these personnel – and others – were in fact trespassing. There’s no question that protesters sliced open a chain link fence and tried to take over private property.

Credentialed reporters are allowed to go places that the regular public is excluded from for example.

See: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/press_relations/credentials.shtml

entry to Zuccotti Park when the cops barricaded everyone in the park.

be allowed to during the protests.