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April 5, 2006

TV reporter files complaint against mall guard

PROVIDENCE -- Channel 6 reporter James Hummel and cameraman John Guice filed a criminal complaint today against a Providence Place security guard and parking attendant whom they accused of pushing their TV camera and threatening.

The group exchanged words during an argument yesterday over whether Hummel and his cameraman could stand on a sidewalk while a security car dangled from the fourth floor of the mall garage.

Hummel alleges in his complaint that the Allied Barton Security Services guard threatened to kill him. "Sometime when I don't have this uniform on and you don't have that camera and I run into you, you're dead. I will kill you,'' the security guard said, according to Hummel's complaint.

At another point during the exchange, the complaint says, a parking garage employee told the cameraman to stop recording.

"After we told him 'no,' he grabbed the camera and shoved it while John was looking through the viewfinder and attempting to videotape," Hummel wrote.

Aside from the alleged death threat, much of the exchange was caught on tape, which was given to police when Hummel filed the complaint.

Posted by Steve Peoples  at 4:49 PM | Permalink

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