Reporter Arrested While Covering News Conference in Ohio

Reporter Arrested While Covering News Conference in Ohio - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

 

Oh look, no responses.

Pearlman was right about the board.

 

I apologize on behalf of the rest of the board for not posting on your timeline.

I guess you didn't respond because you were too busy on your next post wishing for the death of Republican politicians.

 

Pretty bad.

So I expect nothing to be done about it. Because it happens all the time.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/w...ce-attacks-on-journalists-across-the-country/

A Wall Street Journal reporter was handcuffed by police while standing outside a Chase Bank. The newspaper is demanding answers | CNN Business

https://www.voanews.com/a/press-fre...rested-covering-us-protests-year/6199578.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...erguson-arrest-and-threaten-more-journalists/

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...olice-injure-arrest-journalists-protests.html

Journalist Alan Weisman arrested, strip-searched while covering anti-pipeline protest in Minnesota - Committee to Protect Journalists

I was there the night this happened:

https://pen.org/press-clip/officials-journalists-among-those-arrested-during-zuccotti-park/

Spent the weekend on the phone with Walz's office and the Department of Public Safety while this was happening:

Minnesota Governor Calls Alleged Assaults on Journalists ‘Chilling’ (Published 2021)

Minnesota governor expresses regret for mistreatment of journalists during Daunte Wright demonstrations | CNN

CNN crew released from police custody after they were arrested live on air in Minneapolis | CNN

Journalists Settle Suit Over Mistreatment Covering Protests Following Killings Of George Floyd, Daunte Wright

Things might be a little worse since Trump's 'enemy of the people' campaign. But government violence and wrongful arrest of the press goes back to the founding

https://www.rcfp.org/espionage-act-used-directly-against-press/

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

 

I honestly wonder if the press has enough juice these days, or would have enough will to defend a Penatgon Papers typle legal challenge. Something like this should require the officers to take (or re-take) a six-hour course on civil liberties. And pass a test before returning to the streets.

 

They'll die when they die, but I haven't posted as such since the mods said not to. Pay attention.

 

I would have been more outraged if the governor had not said it appeared to be poorly handled. To me, that was at least something.

 

When they're not cracking you over the head with a nightstick . . .

DeSantis, Aiming at a Favorite Foil, Wants to Roll Back Press Freedom

 

Not a lot of constitutional scholars on the Scorpion Team or the governor's protective detail.

It's always easy to offer the apology after the heads have been cracked. And as brother Ragu points out, assuage the loud few - other journalists mostly, rarely ever the public - with a cash settlement.

A lot of us at the Committee to Protect Journalists and PEN and other free press orgs were on the phone with the Minnesota governor's office and the state police in real time while journalists were being assaulted and arrested in Brooklyn Center. Told them what we were seeing and hearing and to get their cops in line.

Got a contrite public apology from the governor after the fact instead - but by then every head had been cracked. Meaningless.

After which, thanks to the ACLU, the payout.

Same thing will happen again next time.

And again.

And again.