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Citizen journalist arrested for photographing sheriff's deputy at Texas county meeting

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 11, 2025
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In far West Texas, where local news coverage has grown sparse, citizen journalist David Flash was arrested attempting to photograph a sheriff's deputy during a county meeting.

Flash, publisher of the Big Bend Times, was handcuffed and removed from a Jeff Davis County commissioners' meeting in June after trying t…

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