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W. Virginia journalist arrested after asking HHS Secretary a question
By Samantha Schmidt The Washington Post May 10, 2017

As Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price walked through a hallway Tuesday in the West Virginia State Capitol, veteran reporter Dan Heyman followed alongside him, holding up his phone to Price while attempting to ask him a question.

Heyman, a journalist with Public News Service, repeatedly asked the secretary whether domestic violence would be considered a preexisting condition under the Republican bill to overhaul the nation’s health care system, he said.

‘‘He didn’t say anything,’’ Heyman said later in a news conference. ‘‘So I persisted.’’

Then, an officer in the Capitol pulled him aside, handcuffed him and arrested him. Heyman was jailed on the charge of ‘‘Willful Disruption of State Government Processes’’ and was released later on $5,000 bail.

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