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October 29, 2008

NJ Officer Suspended for Beating, Arresting Journalist
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Back in the United States, a New Jersey police officer has been
suspended following the violent arrest of a television camera operator.
Jim Quodomine of WCBS was filming a peaceful protest outside a Newark
church when the officer put him in a chokehold and arrested him.
Quodomine spent more than an hour in a police vehicle and had his camera
confiscated. The arrest came days after a photojournalist was arrested
in Chicago while covering the fatal shooting of a suspected burglar by
an off-duty police officer.



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