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ABC Producer Busted Filming DNC Bigwigs

Sheriff's deputy gets rough with newsman probing role of VIP donors

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 28, 2008 5:37 AM CDT

(Newser) – An ABC News producer was busted in Denver while filming senators and big donors leaving a hotel meeting near the Democratic National Convention. He was manhandled into traffic by a sheriff's deputy, handcuffed and hauled away on charges of interference, trespass, and failure to obey a lawful order, reports ABC News.

The busted producer, who works for the network's investigative unit, was covering a story on the role of corporate lobbyists and VIP donors at the convention. Video of the incident shows a deputy telling the producer that the sidewalk where he stood belongs to the hotel. He has been released from Denver's city jail on $500 bond.

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Video shows a sheriff's deputy forcing ABC producer Asa Eslocker off the sidewalk in front of a Denver hotel. (dustmybroom2)

Police stand guard outside the barricade surrounding the site of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Video of ABC producer Asa Eslocker's arrest in Denver. (StephenLoneWolf)

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We expect to see that kind of thing in Myanmar, not on the streets of Denver. - ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider

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ABC Producer Busted Filming DNC Bigwigs