15 Dec 2008

Another video journalist stopped at Greek protest

Author:

Olivier Laurent

Another video has emerged of a journalist, Jesse Oldershaw, being stopped and searched while covering the protests in front of the Greek embassy in London. The event took place on Wednesday 10 December. The journalist is searched after a police officer claims that a yellow pen could be a weapon. (Skip to 4min25sec to see the incident).

This is the second journalist to have been subjected to unreasonable police action during protests at London's Greek embassy. Last week, it emerged that another press photographer had been subjected to heavy-handed methods from a Metropolitan Police officer. The incident had also been filmed and can be seen here.

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I'm not sure I'd call that "heavy-handed" - the officer seemed perfectly courteous to me. Recent incidents involving people being told to stop photographing or filming are concerning, but in this case I think the journalist's reaction was a bit OTT.

Posted by: Haydn on 23 Dec 2008 at 20:05

I agree ; not only is the reaction exaggerated, it also shows a certain ignorance towards more 'local' knife problems in the country. Just because the journalist is a middle class caucasian. does not mean he should get angsty when under suspicion.

Freedom for others requires some self-restraint.

Posted by: esther on 04 Apr 2009 at 19:44

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