UPDATED 1:47 Vice says Houston police have reporter Alex Thompson under “investigative hold” and that it could be hours before further updates.
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A Vice News reporter was arrested for trespassing outside a Donald Trump campaign event on Saturday, according to the site.
Thompson had entered the Omni Westside Hotel to check with the GOP presidential candidate’s campaign if it had granted him press credentials to cover an event when he was arrested.
A man who identified himself as a hotel manager then asked Thompson to leave and warned that he would be arrested if he did not. Thompson said he was arrested two minutes later without warning. He was taken to Houston Central Jail.
According to Vice’s editors, Thompson was never given an opportunity to explain why he was still in the lobby waiting for Trump staffers to return with an answer.
VICE News reports that it requested access to the event earlier in the week and had been told by the Trump camp that its status was “pending”.
A call to the Omni seeking comment has not yet been returned. He also claimed she made up things that he told her. Dowd went on CNN Saturday to speak about her new book “The Year of Voting Dangerously”, a collection of her columns on both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Vice reported that it has not received any information on the arrest.
