The troubling arrest of a CNN journalist and camera crew in Minnesota last night is part of a pattern over the last decade, and it starts in part back in Minnesota in 2008 /1 https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1266336966452359168">https://twitter.com/brianstel...
In 2017, following numerous attacks on journalists at political rallies and protests @cjr wrote that "Covering protests has become the riskiest job in journalism" https://www.cjr.org/special_report/covering-protests-threats-press-freedom-tracker.php">https://www.cjr.org/special_r... /6
I spent a decade tracking these arrests because the First Amendment belongs to all of us, and these arrests are not just attacks on journalism, but also infringements on our rights as Americans. Our democracy was built on an informed public and a free press. /7
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