As Red Broward was first to report, an embedded journalist with the Cain campaign was roughed up by gentleman identified as a Coral Springs police officer. Here is the story from CBS NEWS:

“The incident happened when several journalists who have been covering Cain regularly tried to film the candidate as he was returning to his campaign bus after an event here. As the journalists trailed Cain, a man in plain clothes blindsided National Journal/CBS News reporter Lindsey Boerma into the side of the campaign bus. Moments later, as journalists circled around the bus toward Cain, the same man stuck his arm out and clothes-lined Boerma.

The man refused to identify himself. He implied he was a police officer when he suggested that one of his ‘buddies’ in uniform could give the reporter a ride in the back of a police car. When other journalists began videotaping him, he pulled out his cell phone and started recording the press. ‘I’m an independent reporter,’ he said.

Afterwards, Lt. Joe McHugh of the Coral Springs Police Department identified the man as one of his officers and defended his actions. ‘The reporter was running up along the side of the bus with no identification on identifying herself as a reporter,’ McHugh said. ‘So the officer stuck his arm out to prevent her from getting to Mr. Cain and at which time he was successful.’

Boerma was not wearing press tags but was carrying a video camera with a plainly visible CBS decal. She is a member of a team of reporters covering the presidential candidates for National Journal and CBS News.

McHugh said the officer, Sgt. William Reid, suffered a hyper-extended elbow.”

Another embedded journalist told Red Broward that the CBS reporter was “body checked” by the officer. Developing…

Read the full CBS NEWS report here.