CAUGHT ON CAMERA: CONGRESSMAN, CAMERAMAN SCUFFLE

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Aug 7 2008
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A scuffle between a filmmaker and a U.S. congressman
from Tennessee has been caught on tape.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., who is running for re-election, held
a press conference in his Memphis home on Wednesday. That was when
the altercation started.

Peter Musurlian is making a documentary about the election and entered
Cohen’s home trying to interview the congressman.

The two got into an argument and Cohen shoved Musurlian out of the
house, the video shows.

Musurlian said he planned to file assault charges against Cohen.

The filmmaker, who is Armenian, is upset that Cohen didn’t support
a congressional referendum recognizing the killing of 1.5 million
Armenians in the early 1900s as genocide.