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I was on a story once, breaking news, a Trimet accident with the MAX line if I remember correctly. Someone was killed. We got smart and found a location in a behind a business where we had a great vantage point of the stopped MAX car. The PIO was about 2 blocks away at a fast food restaurant. An officer saw us setting up to go live and told us that the PIO was down the street and to go see him. We told him we would do that as soon as our live shot was clear. He yelled at us saying that if we didn't leave that he'd move the crime scene perimeter back a block to force us to leave.

I've had a couple exchanges like this with police. Now, overall we all get along. We wave or say "hi" in passing, but there are a few bad apples out there. I don't let them represent the whole. They know we have to do our jobs, and we recgonize that they have to do theirs. As long as we understand that on both sides of the yellow tape everything is grand.