It's getting rough out there on President Obama stakeout duty.  A public access television crew in Hawaii is claiming police mistreatment and gashed fingers as it tried -- unsuccessfully -- to get a vacation shot of Obama.  KITV of Honolulu is reporting:  Sherri Kane, who describes herself as an investigative journalist, looked into the camera and said, "Behind us we have the Secret Service following us now so this is kind of exciting."  Exciting turned to scary after they pulled into a gas station. On their video, a police officer approached the car and said, "Stay in the car. Put that camera off of me."  Producer Sativa Jones can be heard saying "OK."  The women said police vehicles and up to five officers surrounded the car, demanded IDs and registration without explanation. Then without warning an officer reached into the car and grabbed Jones' camera.  "He grabbed it out of my hand and then he slammed it on top of the car," Jones said. She said the camera was damaged -- the automatic lens cover no longer worked.  Jones' fingers were gashed by the sharp edge on the camera mount. She said the officer appeared shaken by what he'd done and courteously showed her how to complain, writing his name and badge number on a card with contact information for the Honolulu Police Commission.  See photos of: Barack Obama, Hawaii  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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