Anchorage Municipal Prosecutor Albert Patterson says the city won’t file any charges over an incident at a Joe Miller town hall on Sunday in which the Republican Senate nominee’s private security guards detained and handcuffed Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger.
Patterson says neither Hopfinger, who was detained for “trespassing” after he repeatedly attempted to question Miller, nor the three guards from DropZone Security, who could have been charged with assault, will be charged.
Patterson issued the following statement yesterday:
According to Richard Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News, Hopfinger said the decision “was obviously the right thing to do.”
Mauer also writes:
Hopfinger said he hasn’t yet decided whether to pursue civil charges against the men who held him captive in the school hallway for more than a half hour, or the Miller campaign which hired them.
“I think quite honestly my rights were violated,” he said. “I didn’t do anything wrong — they started all this pushing business.”
Full coverage of the incident here.
