Just as "The Peach Orchard" will always be tied to Gettysburg, 1863, so will "The Picture" will be tied to Elian.
http://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CoqeJWdicq3vIyw5cB3LqAg90BW&FQ=elian&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20elian%0AAP
Photographer Gets Elian Removal
Associated Press Online - April 22, 2000 14:29
By AMANDA RIDDLE
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) - The scene in Lazaro Gonzalez's bedroom could hardly have been more dramatic: a federal agent wearing green riot gear, a helmet and goggles was carrying an automatic rifle when he confronted a man holding a frightened Elian Gonzalez in a closet.
The chilling moment was captured in a series of photos Saturday by an Associated Press photographer and transmitted to newspapers and broadcasters around the world. The attorney general was asked about the image at a news conference where she defended the approach to taking custody of the 6-year-old Cuban child.
AP free-lance photographer Alan Diaz said Elian was crying and yelled to him, "Que esta pasando?" - What's happening? - moments before a federal agent burst into the bedroom room where he was being held.
The photos were among several shot by Diaz and distributed by the AP throughout the night and into the morning. They included one showing Elian's second cousin, Marisleysis, breaking down after the boy was removed, and one of his great-uncle Lazaro being comforted by family and friends.
When the pre-dawn raid began, Diaz was with another photographer and an NBC cameraman on the lawn next door to the house of Elian's great-uncle.
With the arrival of federal agents, "All of a sudden hell broke loose," said Diaz. "All I recall is the NBC guy saying, `They're here, they're here."
Diaz and the cameraman jumped over the chain-link fence in front of the Gonzalez home and walked into the house. An associate of the relatives directed Diaz to the room Elian had been sharing with Marisleysis.
"A family friend grabbed me and he said, 'Go to the room, go to the room,"' Diaz said. But Elian wasn't there. The photographer then knocked on the door of Lazaro's bedroom, and his wife, Angela, opened it. Elian was in a closet, held by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two fishermen who had rescued him at sea on Thanksgiving Day.
Dalrymple said that amid the noise and commotion from the agents breaking into the home, he had run to the boy and taken him into his arms, retreating to Lazaro Gonzalez's bedroom.
Diaz recalled that when he arrived in the bedroom, Elian "was crying and he was asking me, `What's happening?' and all I said was, 'Nothing's wrong.' I mean, what was I going to say?"
Seconds later, federal agents entered the room and seized the boy. Elian continued to cry and ask, "What's happening?"
"They went to the closet and I shot (the photograph of) them grabbing the baby," Diaz said.
At a news conference in Washington, Attorney General Janet Reno was asked whether the photograph had raised the question of excessive force.
"One of the beauties of television is that it shows exactly what the facts are," Reno said. "And as I understand it, if you look at it carefully, it shows that the gun was pointed to the side, and that the finger was not on the trigger."
© 1997-1999 MarketWatch.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
Oh, I see, when I hold up a Stop 'n Rob, I'm legal even if I have a loaded magazine and one up the spout, as long as my finger's not on the trigger and/or I don't point it DIRECTLY (questionable) at the victim.
We all owe Alan Diaz a beer. His photo will probably be "the Picture of the Year".
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
http://www.marketwatch.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CoqeJWdicq3vIyw5cB3LqAg90BW&FQ=elian&Title=Headlines%20for%3A%20elian%0AAP
Photographer Gets Elian Removal
Associated Press Online - April 22, 2000 14:29
By AMANDA RIDDLE
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI (AP) - The scene in Lazaro Gonzalez's bedroom could hardly have been more dramatic: a federal agent wearing green riot gear, a helmet and goggles was carrying an automatic rifle when he confronted a man holding a frightened Elian Gonzalez in a closet.
The chilling moment was captured in a series of photos Saturday by an Associated Press photographer and transmitted to newspapers and broadcasters around the world. The attorney general was asked about the image at a news conference where she defended the approach to taking custody of the 6-year-old Cuban child.
AP free-lance photographer Alan Diaz said Elian was crying and yelled to him, "Que esta pasando?" - What's happening? - moments before a federal agent burst into the bedroom room where he was being held.
The photos were among several shot by Diaz and distributed by the AP throughout the night and into the morning. They included one showing Elian's second cousin, Marisleysis, breaking down after the boy was removed, and one of his great-uncle Lazaro being comforted by family and friends.
When the pre-dawn raid began, Diaz was with another photographer and an NBC cameraman on the lawn next door to the house of Elian's great-uncle.
With the arrival of federal agents, "All of a sudden hell broke loose," said Diaz. "All I recall is the NBC guy saying, `They're here, they're here."
Diaz and the cameraman jumped over the chain-link fence in front of the Gonzalez home and walked into the house. An associate of the relatives directed Diaz to the room Elian had been sharing with Marisleysis.
"A family friend grabbed me and he said, 'Go to the room, go to the room,"' Diaz said. But Elian wasn't there. The photographer then knocked on the door of Lazaro's bedroom, and his wife, Angela, opened it. Elian was in a closet, held by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two fishermen who had rescued him at sea on Thanksgiving Day.
Dalrymple said that amid the noise and commotion from the agents breaking into the home, he had run to the boy and taken him into his arms, retreating to Lazaro Gonzalez's bedroom.
Diaz recalled that when he arrived in the bedroom, Elian "was crying and he was asking me, `What's happening?' and all I said was, 'Nothing's wrong.' I mean, what was I going to say?"
Seconds later, federal agents entered the room and seized the boy. Elian continued to cry and ask, "What's happening?"
"They went to the closet and I shot (the photograph of) them grabbing the baby," Diaz said.
At a news conference in Washington, Attorney General Janet Reno was asked whether the photograph had raised the question of excessive force.
"One of the beauties of television is that it shows exactly what the facts are," Reno said. "And as I understand it, if you look at it carefully, it shows that the gun was pointed to the side, and that the finger was not on the trigger."
© 1997-1999 MarketWatch.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
Oh, I see, when I hold up a Stop 'n Rob, I'm legal even if I have a loaded magazine and one up the spout, as long as my finger's not on the trigger and/or I don't point it DIRECTLY (questionable) at the victim.
We all owe Alan Diaz a beer. His photo will probably be "the Picture of the Year".
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.