By Guy Page
A new, independent, online news media outlet called “Hank with Brattleboro News” provides on-the-spot video coverage of crime and police activity that – until now – has been lacking in one of Vermont’s most drug-ridden towns.
Crime rose 16% in 2024, as both drugs and homelessness have become an open problem in the downtown of the county seat of Windham County.
Hank Poitras brings his video camera to active crime scenes and captures images of suspects being led away, blood on the pavement, etc.. Like Wayne Savage, his fellow citizen journalist in Burlington, in the time-honored tradition of the police reporter he goes where (subject to the law and police authority) the police and firefighters go, shoots what he sees, and shows it to the public – whether community leaders like it or not.
His latest video shows a new police officer and a citizen gazing at blood stains and a needle cap on a sidewalk. “The police officer did not seem to be too fazed by it,” Poitras notes on camera.
Poitras has published the Planet Hank YouTube page for about a year. Seven months ago he began publishing Hank with Brattleboro News on his channel with headlines like:
Local man causes disturbance at Catholic Church,
Break in at Humane Society leads to one arrest
Traffic stop leads to warrant arrest
Two men arrested in connection with a Burglary Assault
VDC will place “Hank with Brattleboro News” on our daily news checks of the growing number of alternative and citizen news media, and republish as permitted and warranted.
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Just another day at the Vermont zoo., Mass layoffs, high debt load, and hyper inflation will make this problem worse.
Well done Guy, we all need to support u censored news in this state. If we had more people like this gentleman, we’d get some change, put a few people like this in the golden dome and just record people unwilling to answer questions to the press. It would be amazing. They wouldn’t know how to respond. Yes yes yes….
And the Commiecrat politicians in Brattleboro have their heads in the sand pretending all this is not happening until something so bad happens they won’t be able to ignore the problems they created.
When many average people become the loudest voices screaming out in the wilderness, it serves as an example of regimes ready to topple in on themselves. While the UK is locking up their citizens for speaking out and up, people in the USA are refusing to shut up no matter the threats of raids, blackballing, defamation, and losses too costly to count. “We are the news now” and the controllers of this world are pouncing with lawfare warfare – the battle rages on for the survival of humanity.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Thanks for the independent
coverage .