Journalist manhandled by police: “I felt like I was being raped with my clothes on”
On August 23 2014, citizen journalist Nydia Tisdale, who had been granted permission to film the public event, was forcibly removed from a GOP rally at Burt’s Farm in Dawsonville while recording speeches by candidates and officials. Some of Georgia’s top conservative brass like Gov. Deal and then-AG Sam Olens were in attendance. Just this week, Tisdale was acquitted of a felony obstruction charge, but could still be looking at up to a year in