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WHBQ: After asking a photographer to leave his home several times, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) shoved him out the front door during a news conference Wednesday.
This reporter/documentary journalist had other interests in mind and would have constantly sidetracked the event Congressman Cohen had planned. Removing him from the scene is understandable.
Any man who claims he was assaulted because he was pushed or shoved should be ashamed of himself. What a sissy! I hope he didn't get a boo-boo.
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Congressman Steve Cohen called police to his Overton Park home today after he physically removed a camera man from a doorway.
Cohen had called media to his home to discuss tomorrow's election race with challenger Nicki Tinker. Peter Musurlian, a documentary producer and Armenian-American activist, was asked to leave. When he refused, Cohen put his hands on the man's arm, pushed him from the house and shut the door.
Last year, Cohen opposed a resolution which would have condemned Turkey for committing genocide against Armenians after World War I.
I guess it depends on the law of the state, but if it were in Texas, Id ask him to leave, warn him that he now is considered trespassing a home and in danger of lawful repercussions, and then finally I would have pulled out a gun and shot him. *chuckle*
Normally I really like Steve Cohen but geeze... I understand that this man was in his house, but he didn't handle it well IMO. Also, was it really necessary to keep referring to him as "the Armenian"?
Normally I really like Steve Cohen but geeze... I understand that this man was in his house, but he didn't handle it well IMO. Also, was it really necessary to keep referring to him as "the Armenian"?
That would depend upon weather or not the Armenian made a point to refer to himself as an armenian.
At any rate once asked to leave he should have. Reporters seem to think that their right to report the news as they see it is greater than any other right.
That would depend upon weather or not the Armenian made a point to refer to himself as an armenian.
At any rate once asked to leave he should have. Reporters seem to think that their right to report the news as they see it is greater than any other right.
that is pretty likely that the cameraman referred to himself as someone from the "armenian" press. the congressman mentioned that the cameraman was from glendale, calif, which is of course ,home to a very large armenian community.
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