60 Minutes in the Slammer
CBS' Mike Wallace cited for disorderly conduct
CBS News veteran Mike Wallace, 86, was arrested Tuesday evening outside a New York City restaurant and issued a summons for disorderly conduct.
Alan Fromberg, deputy commissioner for public affairs at the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC), told CNN that Wallace allegedly lunged at a TLC inspector about 8:30 p.m. ET.
Two TLC inspectors saw that Wallace's vehicle, registered with the commission, was double-parked and approached the driver. According to Fromberg, while the two inspectors were questioning the driver and checking the vehicle, Wallace came out of Luke's Bar and Grill on Manhattan's Upper East side carrying a take-out order.
Wallace then approached the two inspectors, Fromberg said, in an "overtly assertive and disrespectful manner." Wallace was asked to step away three times by the inspectors. Wallace did not comply.
Would you comply if ordered to do something by someone from the Taxi and Limousine Commission?
(Perhaps these inspectors were trying to raise the profile of their agency to merit a reality show. It'd be called something like "TLC Takedown," and would feature tough-talking inspectors putting disobedient octogenarians in their place. The climactic scene would feature a frantic inspector shouting, "Cane!" while his partner turns to face a furious walking-stick onslaught that seems like slow motion but in fact is not.)
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