MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Tony Perry and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2012
Reporting from San Diego and Los Angeles -- San Diego police said Friday that they don't expect to seek any criminal charges against Jason Russell, the filmmaker behind the viral "Kony 2012" video, after a bizarre incident.
Russell was acting oddly, dressed only in underwear and darting in and out of traffic in the Pacific Beach neighborhood, when officers spotted him on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Police said some callers reported that Russell was naked and touching himself [....]
At the headquarters of Invisible Children, the San Diego nonprofit that produced the video about African militia leader Joseph Kony, security guards blocked the entrance. Workers could be seen removing black and red "Kony 2012" banners from inside the lobby. No one answered the phones, but people could be seen inside talking on cellphones. Some were crying.
A New York-based public relations firm released a statement from the organization's chief executive, Ben Keesey, acknowledging that Russell had been hospitalized [....]