Police in West Virginia's capitol have arrested a journalist for asking a question. Journalist Daniel Heyman was accused of getting past secret service agents and yelling questions at U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
It happened as price and senior White House aide Kellyanne Conway visited the state capitol in Charleston.
Heyman wanted to learn about efforts to fight opioid addiction in a state that has the nation's highest overdose death rate. Heyman was charged with willful disruption of governmental processes, a misdemeanor, and later was released on a 5,000 dollar bond.
Heyman later held a press conference and said he believes he did nothing wrong.
"I think that if you ask the ordinary person they would say that they want reporters to be aggressive and to ask tough questions and try to get answers to those questions. And that's really all I was trying to do. I was trying to get an answer to a question. I was trying to do my job." Daniel Ralph Heyman, Public News Service reporter, said in a statement.
