Tuesday, November 4, 2014

NBC Local Crew Stumbles Across FEMA Camp in NY – Threatened, Chased by Gov’t Contractors

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NBC Local Crew Stumbles Across FEMA Camp in NY – Threatened, Chased by Gov’t Contractors
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Date: Tuesday, 4-Nov-2014 14:43:40


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bChXANbtbFY
News crew threatened with arrest and confiscation of footage after stumbling across a potentially operational FEMA camp facility inside a “closed” prison
Shepard Ambellas
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WILTON, NY – WNYT News 13′s Mark Mulholland and his cameraman had a few rather interesting encounters with overly aggressive State correctional officers while trying to do a story on a historic monument, Grant’s Cottage, which is located at the top of Mount McGregor.
During the encounters, which were all caught on video, the crew was repeatedly asked to stop filming what appeared to be a closed prison facility in the backdrop.
“You are on State property right now. You can’t film here.”, said the officer after pulling up to the news crew on a public roadway in an aggressive manner with his unmarked vehicle. “You are going to leave the mountain now.”, the officer continued, insinuating that the news crew was on the mountain for a “different reason”.
After the conflict, the correctional officer, identified only as “Lieutenant Dorn”, radioed to his co-worker to block the roadway with another vehicle as the crew tried to enter the historic monument where the supposed “closed” prison facility.
Finally after bickering with Lt. Dorn and the State Police for over an hour, the crew managed to be released with all of their footage…

1 comment:

Elizabeth said...

At the American Literature Association Conference in Boston in May, 2013, I presented a paper on what I called ‘recurring motif-images’in the fiction of Don DeLillo. (A transcript is posted on this blog in the September, 2013 section.)
http://postmoderndeconstructionmadhouse.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-recurring-of-thing-itself-in-robert.html#.U2T6aIFdXxA