MSNBC Crew Blocks Handicapped Parking Spot At Polling Place In Houston

You’d think the left would be all over this. After all, they’re ALL about fighting against “voter suppression.”

A disabled Air Force Veteran (James Berrie, who has multiple sclerosis) is claiming that an MSNBC crew blocked a handicapped spot at a polling place in Houston.

His post reads in part:

They claimed they had a live shot, so Sarah walked into the shot. They cut the feed and got pissed. Fortunately other people joined in, plus firefighters who where there for Prop B. We finally left once their van was loaded. But there were plenty of witnesses and pictures/video taken by others.

This is suppression. If I couldn’t park I couldn’t vote. Their van had no handicap placards. And this happens all the time. Handicap spots are not loading zones for gear and equipment. Figure something else out. Especially at a public event where people are going to need the spots. This is not ok, and the station needs to be made aware. All of them.

EDIT: This is a very big election this year. News will be out in force, now and until the general. The media needs to be aware. Call them out if you see this.

“They had made no effort whatsoever to move,” Berrie said. “Their job is more important than accessibility. There were so many other places to do (their live shot). But you chose to do it here. We’re like, ‘No. We gotta stand up.'”

“[The MSNBC crew] kept coming back like we’ll move in two minutes,” he continued. “We’ll move in like three minutes. We’re going live. We’ve got a shot. We’re going live in like three minutes. We gotta do this and we’re just like, ‘No. You have to move. It’s not right. You know it’s not right.’”

Really ⁦@MSNBC⁩ ? Handicapped spot? Not very nice…in fact, indecent. “Disabled Houston veteran: MSNBC crew blocked handicapped spots at polling place | https://t.co/FdsixOMhHH https://t.co/9TO7PaGmbZ

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) November 3, 2018

Correspondent Mariana Atencio apologized on Twitter after it all went down.

We made the wrong call today by using a disabled parking spot for our live shot in TX. There’s no excuse. I apologize to the two people who were on their way to vote as it’s one of the most important parts of our democracy; we’d never want to jeopardize anyone’s ability to do so

— Mariana Atencio (@marianaatencio) October 30, 2018

That’s nice, but still. It was messed up.

“I’m glad that she realized that,” Berrie said. “I’m hopeful that in the future it won’t happen again.”

Hopefully, it won’t.