I appear to be watching a different video
In the one I am watching Brown says 'It has been suggested you were rolling toward the police, were you?'
As the answer contained neither a no or yes he asked him to clarify if it was a yes or no to which he was informed that he cant operate the chair himself.
I may only have a rudimentary grasp of the English language (only being a practitioner for 35 years or so) but to me that sounds like a journalist putting a question to someone to ask if rumours and speculation were true and trying to get a clear answer. There was no accusation of wheeling himself towards the police.
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Yes, I have to say that I dont see this as being spectacular journalism, but nor do I see it as egregious.
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enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 2:07,
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yes you must be watching a different video
2m40s "wheeling yourself towards police"
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The bit that gets me
is not the questions about moving towards the police, but the accusation that he was throwing missiles at the police. I think it's pretty clear from the interview that he is unlikely to be doing that. I don't really think that in his state, even if he were throwing things, that he'd have much success. It's just another idiotic question in an idiotic interview.
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more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Tue 14 Dec 2010, 8:03,
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I'm with you on this.
I think the questions were perfectly reasonable and were seeking clarification.
I started watching this getting ready to call him a cunt but having watched the whole thing I don't see what there is to get excited about.
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Blackdogmanguitar is out with Fat Larry's Jazz Band on, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 9:35,
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The question is would he have used the same technique when interviewing whoever was in charge of the Police operations?
Maybe seeking clarification but the style of the interview was definitely confrontary in nature and designed more to make out he was some sort of wheelchair activitist/anarchist strategically used to make the Police look like violent cunts rather than the fact the the Police were definitely overhanded in their methodology of dealing with this "precieved" threat.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 9:45,
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