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   From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com   
      
   Two BBC journalists who filmed the scene where the Virginia   
   shooting suspect crashed and shot himself say they were   
   threatened by state police.   
      
   White House reporter Tara McKelvey and videojournalist Franz   
   Strasser were among the first on the scene where the manhunt for   
   the alleged WDBJ gunman Vester Flanagan came to an end, after   
   they saw “sirens blaring” on I-66 West.   
      
   But on a day when the ability of journalists to do their jobs   
   unhindered was a particularly heightened issue, officers with   
   Virginia State Police reportedly told the reporters to delete   
   their footage or risk having their camera and car taken away.   
      
   Strasser wrote on Twitter that he decided to delete the footage   
   because “it was either not being able to work for the rest of   
   the day, without camera or car, or delete c***** footage from   
   far away”. He said he “chose the latter”.   
      
   Tara McKelvey ?@Tara_Mckelvey   
   I just left the site where the suspect reportedly shot himself.   
   Cops took our camera and said they would also take our car then   
   let us go.   
   9:00 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   Just at the scene of the suspects shooting on I-66. Police told   
   me to delete footage or lose camera.   
   8:53 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   Just at the scene of the suspects shooting on I-66. Police told   
   me to delete footage or lose camera.   
   8:53 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   Watched me delete my one file, and let me go. Other officer   
   apologized and said we have to understand.   
   9:08 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   It was either not being able to work for the rest of the day,   
   w/o camera and car, or delete crappy footage from far away.   
   Chose the latter.   
   9:48 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   Reason for confiscating camera was that it was evidence.   
   Threatened to tow the car because it was illegally parked.   
   9:59 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   It was either not being able to work for the rest of the day,   
   w/o camera and car, or delete crappy footage from far away.   
   Chose the latter.   
      
   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   But why they are then okay with deleting 'evidence' makes one   
   question their reasoning.   
   10:00 AM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   We were able to recover photos from the moment police asked us   
   to delete crime scene footage #WDBJ   
   4:54 PM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Franz Strasser ?@franzstrasser   
   Neither of these VA state police officers were the one asking us   
   to delete footage. It was mainly one officer.   
   4:55 PM - 26 Aug 2015   
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   Naming the policeman involved as Officer Clark, McKelvey said   
   they were told the footage they had “could be evidence”.   
   Strasser confirmed it was “mainly one officer” who addressed   
   them, and said that the fact he ordered them to delete the   
   “evidence” was enough to “make one question their reasoning”.   
      
   After Strasser’s initial tweet about the officer’s threat was   
   widely shared on social media – and appeared in the BBC’s live   
   coverage of the Virginia shootings online – a public relations   
   officer for Virginia police has reached out to him on Twitter.   
      
   Corinne Geller, a spokesperson for Virginia State Police, wrote:   
   “VSP is aware of this incident and we are looking into it, as   
   such actions violate VSP policy.”   
      
   Strasser later wrote on Twitter that he and McKelvey were   
   reviewing what recordings the pair had been able to make of the   
   exchange with police. A video captured on McKelvey’s iPhone was   
   deemed “unusable”.   
      
   And the incident seems unlikely to be left there. Paul Danahar,   
   the BBC’s bureau chief in the US, also responded to the incident   
   on Twitter, asking the police spokesperson to “exchange   
   contacts”.   
      
   The Independent has contacted the BBC for an official statement   
   on what happened.   
      
   http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/vester-flanagan-   
   chase-bbc-journalists-covering-wdbj-shooting-threatened-by-   
   virginia-police-10474038.html   
      
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   Illegal alien Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy caused   
   by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black ardent supporters,   
   to wave the flags for more gun control.   
        
      
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