The NYC mayor's office said they “apologize” for what Mathias “experienced tonight”
Mathias, a senior reporter who covers the far right, disinformation and hate, had been reporting for days on the protests, prompted by thein Minneapolis. He was in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn when police took him into custody.
“They grabbed Chris aggressively and turned him over on either a car or a barricade to zip tie. I believe he was yelling, ‘Let me get my phone,’ but they obviously didn’t [let him] and they just took him away from there,” Barghouty told HuffPost. Mathias identified himself as a journalist while at the protest and was wearing a press badge, which can be seen hanging from his neck in the photo below.
A spokesperson with the New York City Mayor’s Office told HuffPost via email that they “apologize” for what Mathias “experienced tonight.”
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