Two of the remaining top-level staff at the embattled Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) threatened to call the police on a Daily Caller reporter on Thursday, as he tried to ask about their knowledge of sexual harassment by Morris Dees.
Heidi Beirich and Maureen Costello, Director of the Intelligence Project and Teaching Tolerance respectively, were spotted in downtown DC, coming in and out of the Daily Caller’s building throughout the day. Costello took over the Teaching Tolerance project in 2010, and Beirich joined the SPLC back in 1999.
The board and senior leadership of the SPLC has, for years, been stacked with friends and allies of the disgraced founder Morris Dees. Dees, according to two letters by staffers, had been accused in “multiple reports of sexual harassment by Dees through the years [which] had been ignored or covered up, and sometimes resulted in retaliation against the women making the claims,” according to a March report published by The New Yorker.
Few details have emerged about what has gone on within the Montgomery-based nonprofit since the departure in recent weeks of Dees, President Richard Cohen and several others. The Daily Caller’s Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago took the opportunity of their visit to the nation’s capital to ask the embattled warriors of tolerance what they knew about their former colleague’s alleged lechery.
After a brief exchange in the lobby of the building, the SPLC officials attempted to ignore the Daily Caller reporter, then threatened to call the police if he continued to ask questions. watch
If the police are called, and the reporters are wrongfully arrested, they can sue the shit out of the hacks who got them arrested.
False arrest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_arrest
Tells us how much liberals love freedom of speech. Not much.
Ignore and keep walking is fine, but to threaten to call the police on a reporter in a public space is ridiculous.