September 12, 2010 🟡 Significant

Journalists arrested while filming at Trump's Scottish golf resort

Documentary filmmakers Anthony Baxter and Richard Phinney were arrested by Grampian Police while filming "You've Been Trumped" near the Menie Estate golf course. They were detained for four hours, had their DNA taken, and were charged with breach of the peace after Trump Organization staff complained they were filming an interview with a local resident. The charges were later dropped, and the incident was widely condemned as an attempt to intimidate the press and silence critics of the controversial development.

Categories

Offenses:
abuse-of-power bullying
Domains:
media civil-rights
Tags:
#scotland#menie-estate#press-freedom#youve-been-trumped