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October 18, 2010

Alaskan Journalist Detained & Handcuffed by Private Guards for GOP Candidate
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In news from Alaska, private security guards working for Republican US
Senate candidate Joe Miller detained and handcuffed a journalist on
Sunday after the reporter attempted to interview the Tea Party favorite.
Tony Hopfinger, an editor at the Alaska Dispatch, was attempting to ask
Miller about why he was disciplined while working as a part-time
attorney for a local governmental body. Private security guards from the
firm Drop Zone accused Hopfinger of trespassing and assault, but local
police officers declined to arrest him. Hopfinger talked to the Alaskan
TV station KTUU after he was let go.

Tony Hopfinger: “I mean, I asked him some hard questions that I thought,
you know, we need to get some answers to. He’s being sued by two
newspapers and us right now over his employment at the [Fairbanks North
Star] Borough. And he hasn’t denied the accusations, so I was
asking—I started asking about that. That’s where this all came
from.”



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