Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, on Sunday responded to reports that the state’s police officers had assaulted journalists covering the unrest in a Minneapolis suburb, saying, “Apologies are not enough; it just cannot happen.”
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Joshua Rashaad McFadden, a freelance photographer who was covering the protests for The Times, said in an interview on Sunday that the police surrounded the car he was in on Tuesday as he tried to leave the protests. They beat on the windows with batons, then entered the car to force him out, beating his legs and striking his camera lens, he said.
“It was definitely scary — I’ve never been in a situation like that with so many police officers hitting me, hitting my equipment,” Mr. McFadden, 30, said.
Mr. McFadden, who is Black, said the police did not believe his press credentials were real until another photographer vouched for him — a situation that has happened to him and other Black journalists many times, he said.
There are a number of cops out there who don't believe in the Constitution. That's been on full display over the last year.
How would this have been justified if he wasn't a real journalist?
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't have been. But cops attacking journalists is a hallmark of a police state.
ReplyDeleteThis is a reaction to the conviction in the Floyd murder .
ReplyDeleteThe video of the killing was done by a non journalist ( I think she was black).