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Condit tangles with photographer at stakeout



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Police are reviewing a complaint lodged by an aide to Rep. Gary Condit, D-California, that physical contact took place between the congressman and a photographer Monday afternoon outside Condit's apartment.

"We are reviewing the situation," according to a D.C. Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, who refused to say what charges, if any, might be considered.

Television and press crews have been stationed outside Condit's apartment because of media interest in Condit and his alleged involvement with Chandra Levy, a former federal intern from his California district who has been missing for three months. Police have interviewed Condit four times but say he is not a suspect in the case.

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Condit's chief of staff, Mike Dayton, told reporters he felt "the congressman deserved a little bit more respect" as he tried to get to a waiting car to depart his home Monday afternoon.

According to Dayton, Steve Boitano, a free-lance photographer for The Associated Press, made physical contact with Condit either with his arm or his camera.

Witnesses said the "stakeout" of media crews on the sidewalk is in a very confined area and that crews jumped up in surprise as Condit made a quick departure down the outside stairs.

Boitano acknowledged he and Condit may have tried to get to the same space between two parked cars curbside as Condit walked toward his waiting vehicle, which was double-parked.

As six police cars responded to Dayton's complaint, neighbors who gathered to watch the proceedings chimed in with their own sharp comments to the media.

One woman was heard loudly claiming she, too, had been physically blocked at that very moment by one of the sound technicians at the scene.






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