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Tue, 02 Jun 2020Cops -- Newly Wary Of Looking Like Authoritarian Assholes -- Open Fire On, Arrest Journalists Also in today's criminal justice news, police in Louisville KY – who just watched police in Minneapolis MN arrest a CNN reporter live on-air – say "hold my whiskey" and deliberately shoot a reporter and her cameramanLive on-airpic.twitter.com/rUrkRZmo9n— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) May 30, 2020 Photos taken by @PLBarghouty show HuffPost senior reporter Chris Mathias (@letsgomathias), with press badge clearly visible, being taken into custody by the NYPD. Chris was on assignment for HuffPost covering the protests in Brooklyn. pic.twitter.com/EWcWNoFjMW— HuffPost (@HuffPost) May 31, 2020 "You are part of the problem, if not the entire problem." - MPD officerMinneapolis Police called our journalist the "entire problem" & threatened he "would get baked" as he filmed them at 31st & Blaisdell after curfew a block away from #GeorgeFloydProtests at the 5th Precinct. pic.twitter.com/K25MIapPcf— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) May 31, 2020 Last thing I saw before I got sprayed. I was even holding up “media” badge pic.twitter.com/XGNN32dl1v— JC Reindl (@jcreindl) May 31, 2020 I just got hit by a rubber bullet near the bottom of my throat. I had just interviewed a man with my phone at 3rd and Pine and a police officer aimed and shot me in the throat, I saw the bullet bounce onto the street @LAist @kpcc OK, that’s one way to stop me, for a while pic.twitter.com/9C2u5KmscG— Adolfo Guzman-Lopez (@AGuzmanLopez) June 1, 2020 posted at: 12:00am on 02-Jun-2020 path: /Policy | permalink 0 writeback(s) comment... home << Policy << auto cops newly wary of looking like authoritarian assholes open fire on arrest journalists
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