The 12-year-old Hilde Lysiak from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania operates its own news portal. On the page of the youngest member of the National Society of Professional Journalists reports on Bank robberies, rape accusations, drug trafficking and murder cases.
For their latest contribution Lysiak makes on the search for a mountain lion in the Region of the tip she received from one of your readers. On the way, she was stopped by a US official who threatened her, allegedly with youth in prison, if they should continue to do research.
Apparently, the officials asked the 12-Year-old, you should stop to follow him. The girl replied that it is in accordance with the first amendment, journalists in the United States was allowed to film officials in public. The response of the police: “I don’t want to hear of this freedom of the press.” To do so, he threatened the girl with the youth prison. Later Lysiak met the same policeman again and filmed the encounter.
The young journalist published the Video of the meeting with the police on your own Youtube page and got a lot of attention. This was so strong that the local authorities were forced to release a Statement. It means that you have personal consequences. How this will look exactly, but it was not communicated.
Created: 23.02.2019, 10:07 PM
