A reporter in West Virginia was arrested while trying to ask health secretary Tom Price and Kellyanne Conway questions
According to a criminal complaint, Dan Heyman was accused of "willful disruption of governmental processes" after Heyman "aggressively breach[ed] the Secret Service agents to the point where the agents were forced to remove him a couple of times from the area walking up the hallway in the main building of the Capitol," WSAZ reported.
A local American Civil Liberties Union branch held a news conference after Heyman's arrest. Video of the conference was posted on Facebook.
Heyman said of the incident: "I was holding [my] phone out and trying to get as close to Secretary Price as possible for obvious reasons, and that was all there was to it. And I was yelling out questions [about pre-existing conditions under Trumpcare]."
Heyman explained that he was working on a story about whether or not domestic violence would be a pre-existing condition. "At some point [Capitol police] decided I was just too persistent in asking this question in doing my job, so they arrested me."
"I was doing my job. We want these questions answered, we as a society," Heyman said. He added that Price never answered his questions.
Heyman works for the Public News Network, and told reporters this was his first arrest over his 30-year long career as a journalist writing for multiple news outlets.
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