Reporter Mike Elk Files Lawsuit Over Being Blocked From Questioning Honeywell Executive
June 7, 2012
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as posted by the channelDemocracyNow.org -- A reporter for the Chicago-based magazine In These Times has filed a lawsuit after he was prevented from questioning the CEO of the industrial giant Honeywell at an event on Capitol Hill. The reporter, Mike Elk, began asking about a gas leak at a Honeywell plant in Illinois when the microphone was seized from his hands.
Mike Elk: "On May 14, there was a seven-minute release of UF6 gas by an unqualified engineer working on the unit where they were operating. Sorry, I'm not done with my question. What I wanted to know, what I happened to know, is that a good cost to release UF6 gas into the atmosphere? Is that a good cost?"
Man: "Sir, if I can interrupt. This is to hear from entrepreneurs and business folks..."
Mike Elk: "I'm a member of the press and I was invited here and I want to ask the —"
Man: "Sir, sir —"
Mike Elk: "Excuse me sir, I'm a member of the press. I've never been treated like that in Washington."
Elk's lawsuit accuses a Honeywell official, as well as a Congressional staffer, of false imprisonment and assault after they allegedly held him against his will. In a statement, Elk said: "The U.S. Capitol is a public building open to reporters and private individuals should not be allowed to impede on freedom of [the] press."
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