“They can ask us to leave but we don’t have to leave because this is a public meeting,” she told the officer. “We’re not going to leave voluntarily.”
Never mess with a brave Texas reporter who knows her rights.
A Houston reporter and her news crew faced down a police officer who tried to force her to leave a public meeting this week where a grade-fixing scandal at a local high school was being discussed.
When Katie McCall of KRIV-TV arrived at the meeting at Westbury High School she was met by an officer who informed her school officials asked that she be removed.
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McCall argued that removing her was a violation of freedom of the press and, despite an argument from the police officer which she posted to Facebook, she stood her ground and stayed for the meeting.
“They asked you to leave,” the officer said.
“I don’t care,” McCall fired back.
Despite repeated requests by the officer for her to leave McCall stood her ground.
“We have a free press in this country and I’m on public property,” she told the officer.
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