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Aloha 'Aina, Imua Kakou!
by Andy Parx
(PNN) -- Popular Kaua`i kids'-sports TV producer Robert "Bob" Sato was accosted today in Mana by eight gun-toting ITT-uniformed individuals and had his camera ruined while setting up for a shoot for a surfing program..
The incident occurred about 9 a.m. on an off-Navy base beach, just mauka of the race track.
Sato said he called the police to report the incident and later in the day was ticketed for "disturbing the peace" at his house.
Sato says the ITT personnel said they were there doing "target practice" by shooting into the ocean and demanded he leave. Sato says he told them he was working on his program filming water sports with children.
Sato says when he said he wouldn't leave and started taping the leader of the group yelled "I'm gonna throw that camera in the ocean". Sato says he was then physically accosted by the "ITT-security" labeled polo-shirted brigade and his camera was torn from his hands with concurrent repeated demands to ":gimme the tape... gimme the tape"
Sato says he did however recover the tape and expects to play it on his regular program "Foundations of the Future For Youth" on Kaua`i public access Channel 52 "within a week . . . if not in a few days,"
The clip is also awaiting posting on U-Tube although Sato says he "needs help" to post the already digitized and filed footage of the assault. .
