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Xeni wrote:
Smurfologist wrote:
Can anyone answer the following question:
What are the laws pertaining to someone who is OCing or CCing in a school zone?
For instance, if I were jogging while OCing or CCing, and, I happen to be jogging in a school zone, what would happen to me (from a legal point of view)? Thanks in advance!
2nd Amendment.......Use it.......Or, lose it!!:X
I think I remember seeing something about a Fox reporter (I could be wrong) being arrested for tresspassing on school property by reporting from the sidewalk (which appeared to be outside of a wall or some other structure). After arrest and search it was discovered that the reporter was armed with a concealed weapon for which he had a permit. I believe the police then tried to stick an additional charge of bringing a firearm on to school property.
I don't know how the case ended up or if the charges were dropped. I remember the news outlet backing up the reporter. But, any one know how this ended up?
-X
I should've just done a google.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-1113tvreporter,0,7103648,full.story
No charges for TV reporter arrested while carrying gun
No charges will be pursued against a television reporter who was arrested near a school while carrying a loaded gun, authorities said Tuesday.
Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG-TV, an ABC network affiliate, was arrested in late October after police said he carried a weapon onto the grounds of Miami Central High School and refused to cross the street when asked by an officer.
The encounter was caught by a cameraman on videotape, which the state attorney's office used to decide that no charges would be filed against Weinsier, Assistant State Attorney Maggie Gerson wrote in a memo released Tuesday.
Weinsier had faced charges of armed trespass on school property, possession of a weapon, violation of carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest without violence. Weinsier, who was investigating a story on school violence, was not on school grounds when approached by police and ordered to leave, Gerson said.
``Since the defendant was not trespassing, anything that was found on the defendant after he was arrested will be suppressed as a matter of law,'' Gerson wrote.
Weinsier's actions did not appear disruptive and students had been dismissed from classes when he was arrested, Gerson said.
The reporter began carrying a gun after he received death threats stemming from a series he did about unsanitary conditions at restaurants, according to the station. Weinsier has a concealed weapons permit, police had said.
``From day one, I knew that I had been on the public sidewalk outside the school,'' Weinsier said Tuesday. ``I knew the law clearly. This is false arrest.''
The reporter said he has filed a formal complaint with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department and is reviewing the possibility of legal action.
WPLG is owned by The Washington Post Co.