This is true. There's a local judge here that will not allow news cameras in his courtroom. He says it would turn the trial into a circus.
Don't think so? Go down to the courthouse or the DMV or any city administrative office with a camera crew and an attitude and see how long you last.
Watch the whole confrontation. The PR guy later gets up in the reporters face and messes with their camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugX4HRJQD1Y
lol, did she just get done dancing?
The city is the owner and, just as with any property, has the right to control who comes on to it!
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he directed us to the store exit wich was on the other side of the mall where we parked and it was hot as heck out. so we started going to the mall store exit part. my wife was 9 months pregnant and was very slow. he pushed her a little in the back and said to hurry up.
I turned to him and asked him to not touch or push her again. well he gets upset and decides to show me he is boss and push's her again. i got in his face and told him Not to do it again or i would consider that an assault . at that time 2 older plain clothes mall police stepped in and told the guy to not touch her again i would have the right to respond.
sure i would have got one hit in..then he would have kicked my ass LOL
You are both right and wrong. If you invite some one onto your land, even only implied and not expressed, you owe some duty of care to the visitor. Was this town hall a public event? Likely so and therefore implied consent was given. You cannot use "unreasonable" force to evacuate a visitor once they are on your land by invitation or also physically assault them.
At a DMV you have trained security personnel who are clearly identified as security guards who can use physical force if all other options where exhausted.
Right. Excellent answer. You can't use "unreasonable " force since the town hall event meant the news team had an implied right to be there, but they could have demanded that they leave and called the cops to enforce that demand if they didn't.
And . . . no judge I know of would have convicted the PR guy of battery based on that tape.
Watch the whole confrontation. The PR guy later gets up in the reporters face and messes with their camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugX4HRJQD1Y
I think it would be assault, not battery. You can't touch someone against their will. even the threat of physical harm is a crime.