“My office has reviewed the relevant video and documentary evidence, and is dismissing the charges against Evan Lambert as unsupported by sufficient evidence,” Yost said in a statement in the release.
Lambert was charged with resisting arrest, a second-degree misdemeanor, and criminal trespass, a fourth-degree misdemeanor. Lambert’s arrest Feb. 8 in East Palestine came as he was doing a live shot when Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s news conference on the Norfolk Southern train derailment began.
Video of the arrest showed that during a verbal confrontation involving Ohio National Guard Adjutant Gen. John C. Harris, Jr., Harris put his hands on Lambert’s chest at which point members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol intervened and separated Harris from Lambert. The confrontation then escalated with other officers pulling Lambert out of the gymnasium where the news conference was taking place and then tackling him to the ground and arresting him.
The arrest led to national news and public outcry.
“While journalists could conceivably be subject to criminal charges for trespassing in some situations, this incident is not one of them,” Yost said. “The reporter was lawfully present at a press conference called by the Governor of the state. His conduct was consistent with the purpose of the event and his role as a reporter.”
Ohio Attorney General dismisses charges against reporter arrested at governor’s train derailment briefing – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
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This First Amendment incident is in a video clip via Vagabond in one of my two postings to AIETBIBLE Bitchute on the “Mars Attacks” aspects of Ohio. The reporter was calm and polite to those arresting him. I do not know what his specific questions were which prompted the arrest but his demeanour was not disorderly and I think the charge was “disorderly conduct”, I suspect that the rough treatment was meant to EVOKE disorderly conduct. Evan Lambert told the police and possibly military present that he was acting on his First Amendment rights and this is correct. What questions could Evan have asked if he had remained in the press conference such as … Q1) Am I correct that the perpetrators of this crime could have held the chemicals in the trough and put them back into barrels instead of burning them? What do the chemists cc’d above say? And locally … Q2) How should VCH or CDC or other BC authourities manage such a train failure if it happened in the Fraser Valley MLA Coulter and MP Strahl? Franklin
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