The U.S. Park Police is taking responsibility for chasing reporters away from the White House as six uniformed members of the armed services were arrested after handcuffing themselves to the White House gate to protest "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" yesterday.
"That was strictly the U.S. Park Police that screwed up – that has nothing to do with the Secret Service of the White House or the Administration," said Park Police spokesman Sergeant David Schlosser of the incident, which drew complaints from reporters and online speculation about darker motives.
"We had some young officers who, when they were told to move the people back -- which we typically do when we're going to make arrests - they moved the people back a lot further than we typically do," said Schlosser. "That was a rookie, amateur error and they screwed up on that."
"A high ranking official recognized the problem and opened the access back up, but the damage was done at that point," he said.
Schlosser said some Secret Service officers had "assisted," but stressed that the error was the Park Police's.
"It's just embarrassing," he said. - Politico Story
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