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Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis https://cnn.it/2AlGl9s
Live updates: https://cnn.it/2yJITxZ
“It didn’t make any sense to me,” law enforcement analyst Charles Ramsey says about the arrest of a CNN team in Minneapolis who had clearly identified themselves as press. “…There’s no way something like that should occur.” https://cnn.it/2yHGsf9
A black reporter from CNN was arrested while legally covering the protests in Minneapolis. A white reporter also on the ground was not. https://cnn.it/2AjCvOe
CNN calls the arrest of its team in Minneapolis “a clear violation of their First Amendment rights” https://cnn.it/2MafWOK
This is how the situation unfolded as a CNN crew was taken into custody amid protests in Minneapolis early on Friday morning: https://cnn.it/36KBCKH
. @Bakari_Sellers: “Law enforcement in Minneapolis had the audacity…to arrest a reporter of color while doing his job and following command, but the...officer who put his knee in the back of the neck of a man and choked him for 8 minutes is still free to walk around."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has apologized for the arrest of a CNN reporter and camera crew and says he will have them released. “It was totally unacceptable.” https://cnn.it/3c97M3z
The CNN crew arrested while covering protests in Minneapolis has now been released from custody https://cnn.it/2zySTdX
