You’ve seen him ignore independent video journalist Dave Ridley multiple times, but when confronted with someone he doesn’t know, Derrick Horton, “mayor” Dale Pregent first acts nice as though he will answer a question. However, when he discovers the subject matter, he abruptly turns and walks off. An unidentified city councilor also ignores Derrick. These people don’t care about even trying to look good…
UPDATE: Beau has been released as has Ademo! (Beau finished his sentence on good behavior and Ademo is out on bail.) Jim Johnson is still in jail.
Here’s Kate’s letter she wrote to Burke:
It’s all arbitrary. In Keene, sometimes activists are arrested for wearing hats, sometimes not. Sometimes people are threatened and arrested for using video cameras in the court lobby, sometimes not. Here’s video of Free Talk Live host Mark Edge taking a speeding ticket to trial and being found guilty. You’ll also see court security attempting to intimidate Liberty on Tour’s Pete and Ademo into removing hats and gum. They fail. Chief of security Lance Walton instructs the lumbering goons to back off and let the robed man decide, then the robed man ignores the hats and gum.
Liberty activist Jim Johnson was fined after being found guilty at a trial several weeks ago. Jim never paid the fine, so the court bureaucrats demanded he show up at a hearing about that. He was told he needs to fill out a financial affidavit so the court bureaucrats could determine if he could pay the fine, or else he’d be charged with contempt. Jim did not fill out the form and was jailed indefinitely.
In addition, court security officers Tebo and Fredriksen attempted and failed at intimidating the audience into standing for the robed man. Tebo also attempted to order me around, violating my right to cover a public hearing as a member of the press. In addition, Tebo actually assaulted me and grabbed me by the arm in an attempt to remove me from the courtroom. He and his security continued to threaten the crowd with arrest. All of this is on video:
So, I called the Cheshire Sheriff’s office today in an attempt to learn how to file a complaint as I was assaulted by one of their court security officers today. Unfortunately, I could not even begin a conversation as for a long period of time I did not know to whom I was speaking. Listen to this bureaucrat, who later reluctantly just gave his first time, refuses to answer a simple question that anyone in a customer service role should be happy to answer. Instead, he robotically utters the same phrasing over and over.
This is what customer service is like when its run by a violent monopoly. You can’t switch to their competitor, so it doesn’t matter how they treat you.
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