Susie Cagle arrested for second time and released

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1. Mike Lester

   What does Daryl Cagle’s daughter’s arrest have to do w/ cartooning?

   1. Alan Gardner  (admin)

      @Mike – she’s a graphic journalists. Here’s past TDC stories about her work covering Oakland.

2. Joe Engesser

   I’m not sure, but it’s a shame that limited jail space is being occupied by belligerent protesters. Very frustrating for law enforcement professionals just doing their job.

3. Tom Richmond

   Just wondering at what point the Occupy movement stops being worthy of any press coverage at all, if it ever was after week two.

4. Kevin Moore

   Susie Cagle a cartoonist and a journalist, and often combines both skills to report on pressing social issues. It’s the second time she has been arrested, despite being a journalist, attempting to do her job of informing the public about the movement, the protests and the authoritarian reaction to it. Judging from the comments above, more informational work is needed.

5. Peter Dunlap-Shohl

   Susie is doing what good journalists do-going out and seeing for herself what happens and reporting it. I hope to hell that people being locked up, and in some cases beaten in the course of exercising their First Amendment rights is still news in this country.

6. Mike Lester

   You mean like Tea Partiers?

7. Joe Engesser

   If there is evidence of mistreatment, I suggest contacting a public defender. Thank God for our criminal justice system!

8. Peter Dunlap-Shohl

   Mike- Absolutely, although I don’t remember them taking any beatings or being locked up. Examples?

   Here’s a Forbes (slogan: Capitalist tool) post from a guy that looked into this and found little evidence that Tea Party people had anything like what OWS protestors suffered.

9. Peter Dunlap-Shohl

   Here is a copy and paste of the link
   http://www.forbes.com/sites/daveserchuk/2011/10/20/the-tea-party-never-got-pepper-sprayed/

10. Mark Juhl

    Peter

    Last I checked Tea Partiers didn’t and don’t get beaten is they get permits, stage orderly events and leave. They don’t camp out illegally, block roadways or commit massive acts of vandalism. Tea Partiers don’t purposely do things to get arrested and don’t try to provoke the police into a violent reaction.

    Here’s a link to a running list of “peaceful” OWS actions. They stopped keeping count somewhere in December, with links to back up each notation. They stopped counting at 417.

    http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/

    Journalist should be free to cover events without hassle, but if you’re covering a group that is deliberately trying to provoke a bad reaction from the police you shouldn’t be surprised if it ends up happening and you get caught in the middle of it.

11. Peter Dunlap-Shohl

    Maybe. But the question wasn’t why are people getting beaten but who is getting beaten. Some are born victims, others have victimhood thrust upon them.

    (as for “Orderly” who can forget the decorum of the Tea Partiers mocking a man who had the poor sense to have Parkinson’s Disease?)

12. Mark Juhl

    The premise may have been “who”, but it is the actions not the politics that caused some police to over react. So it’s a false premise.