Confrontation With ALEC Security Turns Violent: VIDEO (ThinkProgress)

[annabanana]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/6907-focus-confrontation-with-alec-security-turns-violent-video

Yesterday, at a conference in New Orleans, two ThinkProgress reporters were attacked by security guards for no apparent reason. Reporters Scott Keyes and Lee Fang were at the Marriott Hotel for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) annual meeting, an event that brings together state lawmakers with corporate lobbyists to draft "model" legislation.

While we stood by the second floor lobby of the conference hotel, security guards surrounded us, demanding that we leave. As we were leaving, they approached us, violently pushed us and twisted our arms. A guard approached Fang from behind, tackling him and later bending his arm to take his camera. Keyes, faced similar treatment: two security guards roughed him up on the escalator, taking his video camera, and cutting Keyes' hand as he attempted to leave the premises. As Keyes asked why he was being forced to leave, he was shoved from the back.

Thugs.

[mysuzuki2]

1. were they wearing brown shirts?

[mmonk]

2. Black.