Initial reports state that there were six reporters who were taken to various jail facilities in the Alameda County area as part of the mass arrests in Oakland.
Subsequently the reporters were released.
Apparently the principle of "Interline Courtesy" among various Police agencies has changed since the Seventies.
Has Oakland Police Department unilaterally adopted the
If William L. Shirer, who wrote "Berlin Diary," were still alive this writer would try to contact him and see if he could provide any insights or make any comparisons to events he witnessed years ago to the events that happened Saturday night, but we can't do that. He is dead and so we will let it go at that.
The reader is invited to formulate whatever "jump to conclusions" analysis he (or she) wants to accompany this report.
Won't Uncle Rushbo, and other talk show hosts of that ilk, try to whip up a hysterical level of schadenfreude concerning the trials and tribulations of the reporters and then goad the rubes into voting for a Conservative?
To be continued . . .
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