My dad was a CBS News man in the 1960s. He told me about covering the 1968 riots at Columbia & seeing police beat the hell out of students there. When a group of cops started removing their badges & approaching him & his team, they knew it was time to get the F out of dodge. 1/

Today’s arrests of a CNN crew & firing upon an NBC crew with pepper bullets by police are shocking but not surprising. Not just because Trump has sowed hatred for journalists over the past four years - but because authorities intent on breaking the law never want witnesses. 2/

Too bad for them that reporters will not stand down — and that anyone with a camera phone can now bear witness and share it with the world. 3/