NewsNation Correspondent Evan Lambert was pushed to the ground and taken away in handcuffs following a live report from Gov. Mike DeWine's news conference.
Lambert spent about five hours in jail before being released, reports say. The arrest was conducted by officers from the East Palestine Police Department, according to the the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office.
“I’m doing fine right now. It’s been an extremely long day,” Lambert said after his release. “No journalist expects to be arrested when you’re doing your job and I think that’s really important that that doesn’t happen in our country.”“It has always been my practice that if I’m doing a press conference, someone wants to report out there and they want to be talking back to the people back on channel, whatever, they have every right to do that,” DeWine said.
“Governor DeWine did not see the incident take place because his view was blocked by a bank of cameras recording the press conference, however he did hear a disagreement toward the back of the gymnasium,” Tierney wrote in an email to the Post. “He was later advised that a reporter who had been giving a live report during the briefing was asked to end the broadcast because the volume of his reporting was perceived to be interfering with the event.
NewsNation reports Lambert has been charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. Mike Viqueira, NewsNation’s Washington Bureau chief, called the arrest an infuriating violation of the First Amendment.If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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