When some WGA folks passed out leaflets during American Idol try-outs about the unfair practices of the production company, some rent-a-cops handcuffed them and turned them over to the police. Who of course released them. All this at the mall on Hollywood and Highland.
I was escorted out of a Vegas casino earlier this year for daring to hand out leaflets to the press (!) gathered for a conference (this during the WGA strike itself), so evidently this is becoming a "trend."
Nikke Finke has the details at:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/american-idol-out-of-tune-with-free-speech-wga-activists-arrested-outside-hwood-auditions/
