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Hi Jake. I know you care about press freedom, and I have seen that you have retweeted a colleague who was tear gassed. But could we get a supportive tweet from you for all of the journalists who have been gassed, flash-banged, manhandled and arrested by police in the last 48 hrs? https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1266755788082761729">https://twitter.com/jaketappe...
one of the most professional field reporters i know of was arrested https://twitter.com/PLBarghouty/status/1266922618122354690?s=20">https://twitter.com/PLBarghou...
Sergio was prevented by police from freely covering a protest, even though journalists were exempted from Portland& #39;s curfew https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1266951484291178496?s=20">https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/s...
This reporter had his car windows blown out with live rounds https://twitter.com/RyanFaircloth/status/1266961134751449089?s=20">https://twitter.com/RyanFairc...
A photographer was permanently blinded, possibly by a rubber bullet https://twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266786161143537669?s=20">https://twitter.com/KillerMar...
This MSNBC host got hit with a rubber bullet after he says police and national guard fired into a crowd unprovoked https://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1266911534963478532?s=20">https://twitter.com/AliVelshi...
This chap was manhandled and pepper sprayed after clearly and repeatedly identifying himself as a journalist https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317/status/1266945268567678976?s=20">https://twitter.com/MichaelAd...
Gotta circle back to Sergio for a sec - he got hit in the chest by a flash bang last night. He was okay only because Portland Wears Kevlar https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1266649112750911488?s=20">https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/s...
Admittedly, @jaketapper, you retweeted this one. But unlike the Fox News journalist who was jeered, they did not get a personal statement of support. https://twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422?s=20">https://twitter.com/mollyhf/s...
Unicorn Riot - who have provided fearless on the ground coverage in Minneapolis throughout this crisis - deserve a whole thread of their own re police interference. Let& #39;s go with this for now https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1266913490301792257?s=20">https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/...
To be clear: *no one* deserves to be tear gassed, beaten, maimed, or unjustly detained. (I can& #39;t say that no one deserves to be heckled, but let& #39;s put that aside)
BUT if the fourth estate really is sacrosanct, @jaketapper, what is its biggest threat right now? I put this as a good faith question in a spirit of collegiality. Oh and I will probably have to keep adding to this thread.
Oh by the way Jake is not alone in this and I only singled him out because of his pinned tweet https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/833322340264116224?s=20">https://twitter.com/jaketappe...
CNN reporter arrested today in NYC ht @shaylakraze https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1266933018570219520?s=20">https://twitter.com/keithboyk...
Quite https://twitter.com/rgcooke/status/1267024066960953344?s=21">https://twitter.com/rgcooke/s... https://twitter.com/rgcooke/status/1267024066960953344">https://twitter.com/rgcooke/s...
The reporter above who had said his window was shattered with live rounds has now said that it was likely a marker round https://twitter.com/ryanfaircloth/status/1266977223568961536?s=21">https://twitter.com/ryanfairc... https://twitter.com/ryanfaircloth/status/1266977223568961536">https://twitter.com/ryanfairc...
Of course “less lethal” rounds can not only shatter windows, but kill people https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736036/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...
Hey! Nice! Still gonna keep adding to this thread https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1267029082656714752?s=21">https://twitter.com/jaketappe... https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1267029082656714752">https://twitter.com/jaketappe...
This is targeted! https://twitter.com/mikegeorgecbs/status/1266919447970942986?s=21">https://twitter.com/mikegeorg... https://twitter.com/mikegeorgecbs/status/1266919447970942986">https://twitter.com/mikegeorg...
(Sidebar: there’s a debate about what influence “enemies of the people” rhetoric has had here. I am in the middle. I know that police have attacked journalists in the past but targeting credentialed tv people has not been super common afaik)
