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82_28 » Wed Aug 26, 2015 8:39 pm wrote:It's "old" news right now and if not check your usual feeds. I tried to find it, but 8bit (where are you btw) started a thread about predictions for this year. Couldn't find it.

Anyhow, I said in that thread that my prediction was there would be a murder of a reporter on live TV. I should have bought a lottery ticket.

Virginia police order BBC journalists to delete footage of suspected shooter's crash

August 26, 2015 · 2:15 PM EDT Updated: August 26, 2015 · 9:15 PM EDT
By Kierran Petersen (follow)



BBC reporters Franz Strasser and Tara McKelvey encountered a big obstacle in their coverage of a double slaying of journalists at a Virginia mall.

The two reporters were covering the manhunt of the suspected shooter when they were ordered to delete footage by police. On Wednesday night, Corinne Geller, the statewide public relations manager for the Virginia State Police, tweeted at Strasser.


The incident occured after Allison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were fatally shot while reporting live for WDBJ7 at a shopping mall in Monetta, Virginia. The woman they interviewed was also wounded.

During the ensuing manhunt, Vester Lee Flanagan, the suspected gunman, shot himself after police chased his car. The Virginia State police issued a statement on their Facebook page:

“The suspect vehicle refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. Minutes later, the suspect vehicle ran off the road and crashed. The troopers approached the vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot wound. He is being transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries,” the report says. Flanagan later died, the BBC reported.

The BBC reporters, Strasser and McKelvey, were reporting from the scene of the crash when they were told by police to delete their video footage.

According to Strasser's Twitter feed, the reporters were left with only low-quality iPhone footage.

It's not the first time reporters in Virginia have had trouble filming police. Just last year WTVR-TV in Richmond reported on two incidents involving police officers and cellphones in Petersburg and Norfolk. According to the ACLU of Virginia, their office has documented citizens who have been charged for filming police — usually as a violation of wiretapping laws.

Nordic » Wed Aug 26, 2015 10:42 pm wrote:http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-26/virginia-police-order-bbc-journalists-delete-footage-suspected-shooters-crash

Virginia police order BBC journalists to delete footage of suspected shooter's crash

August 26, 2015 · 2:15 PM EDT Updated: August 26, 2015 · 9:15 PM EDT
By Kierran Petersen (follow)



BBC reporters Franz Strasser and Tara McKelvey encountered a big obstacle in their coverage of a double slaying of journalists at a Virginia mall.

The two reporters were covering the manhunt of the suspected shooter when they were ordered to delete footage by police. On Wednesday night, Corinne Geller, the statewide public relations manager for the Virginia State Police, tweeted at Strasser.


The incident occured after Allison Parker, 24, and Adam Ward, 27, were fatally shot while reporting live for WDBJ7 at a shopping mall in Monetta, Virginia. The woman they interviewed was also wounded.

During the ensuing manhunt, Vester Lee Flanagan, the suspected gunman, shot himself after police chased his car. The Virginia State police issued a statement on their Facebook page:

“The suspect vehicle refused to stop and sped away from the trooper. Minutes later, the suspect vehicle ran off the road and crashed. The troopers approached the vehicle and found the male driver suffering from a gunshot wound. He is being transported to a nearby hospital for treatment of life-threatening injuries,” the report says. Flanagan later died, the BBC reported.

The BBC reporters, Strasser and McKelvey, were reporting from the scene of the crash when they were told by police to delete their video footage.

According to Strasser's Twitter feed, the reporters were left with only low-quality iPhone footage.

It's not the first time reporters in Virginia have had trouble filming police. Just last year WTVR-TV in Richmond reported on two incidents involving police officers and cellphones in Petersburg and Norfolk. According to the ACLU of Virginia, their office has documented citizens who have been charged for filming police — usually as a violation of wiretapping laws.

norton ash » Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:51 am wrote:No, you should take that lotto money and light a votive candle and plead for your salvation because you made this happen.

A voice down the line said “The lottery’s a regressive tax foisted on the classes that can least afford it by the fascist state.” … “It’s a trick of the ruling classes to hide the economic realities of the fascist state from the paling masses. You think rich people play the lottery? You think Donald Trump buys lotto tickets?”

82_28 » Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:39 pm wrote:It's "old" news right now and if not check your usual feeds. I tried to find it, but 8bit (where are you btw) started a thread about predictions for this year. Couldn't find it.

Anyhow, I said in that thread that my prediction was there would be a murder of a reporter on live TV. I should have bought a lottery ticket.