The editor of The Progressive magazine is speaking out about his arrest by Capitol police Thursday during the daily protests against Governor Scott Walker.
Matt Rothschild says he was reporting on the Solidarity Singers in the rotunda. He says while he was taking pictures of officers arresting a group of elderly women known as the Raging Grannies, he, too, was arrested.
“As I started to walk closer toward the elevator, the police said, ‘You can’t come here.’ And I said, ‘I’m a reporter, I’m the editor of the Progressive magazine.’ ‘No, you can’t come here.’
“And I said, ‘I have
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