{"id":10952,"date":"2015-08-12T08:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2015-08-12T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:41:06","slug":"washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-in-ferguson-missouri-as-the-war-on-journalism-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10952","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Reporter Charged with \u201cTrespassing\u201d in Ferguson, Missouri as the \u201cWar on Journalism\u201d Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/08\/11\/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-in-ferguson-missouri-as-the-war-on-journalism-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Reporter Charged with \u201cTrespassing\u201d in Ferguson, Missouri as the \u201cWar on Journalism\u201d Continues<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>A year ago,\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0reporter\u00a0Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald\u2019s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area\u00a0for several reporters, including the<em>Huffington Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here\u2019s last year\u2019s video clip of Mr. Lowery being harassed by a paramilitary police officer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posttv\/c\/embed\/b0fc5720-2354-11e4-8b10-7db129976abb\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although the men were later released without charges, a year later, they are being charged with \u201ctrespassing\u201d by St. Louis County. The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2015\/08\/10\/washington-post-reporter-charged-with-trespassing-interfering-with-a-police-officer\/\"><em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>reports:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>A Washington Post reporter who was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2014\/08\/13\/washington-post-reporter-arrested-in-ferguson\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested at a restaurant last year<\/a>\u00a0while reporting on protests in Ferguson, Mo., has been charged in St. Louis County with trespassing and interfering\u00a0with a police officer and ordered to appear in court.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wesley Lowery, a reporter on The Post\u2019s national desk, was detained in a McDonald\u2019s while he was in Missouri covering demonstrations sparked by a white police officer fatally shooting an unarmed black 18-year-old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>Charging a reporter with trespassing and interfering with a police officer when he was just doing his job is outrageous,\u201d Martin Baron, executive editor of The Post, said in a statement Monday.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019d have thought law enforcement authorities would have come to their senses about this incident. Wes Lowery should never have been arrested in the first place. That was an abuse of police authority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to the summons, Lowery is being charged with trespassing on private property despite being asked to leave. He is\u00a0also charged with interfering with a police officer\u2019s performance of his duties because, the summons alleges, he failed to comply with \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>These counts carry a possible fine of $1,000 and up to a year in a county jail,<\/strong>\u00a0according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.municode.com\/library\/mo\/st._louis_county\/codes\/code_of_ordinances\" target=\"_blank\">the St. Louis County municipal code<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Reporter Charged with \u201cTrespassing\u201d in Ferguson, Missouri as the \u201cWar on Journalism\u201d Continues A year ago,\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0reporter\u00a0Wesley Lowery, was arrested in a McDonald\u2019s in Ferguson Missouri. The fast-food establishment had been used as a staging area\u00a0for several reporters, including theHuffington Post\u2019s\u00a0Ryan Rilley, who was also arrested. Here\u2019s last year\u2019s video clip of Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308,7265,4285,6174,525,533,632,635,938,8044,8045,8042,5228,8043],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ferguson","tag-huffington-post","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-military","tag-missouri","tag-police","tag-police-state","tag-press-freedom","tag-ryan-rilley","tag-st-louis-county","tag-war-on-journalism","tag-washington-post","tag-wesley-lowery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10953,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}