Stephanie Keith was arrested while 'doing nothing more than her job as a visual journalist.'
Chief of Patrol John Chell, one of the highest-ranking members of the NYPD, shouting “Lock her up.”
Taking to Instagram, Keith says that she couldn’t believe that she was arrested, “I was flabbergasted,” she writes. She also posted a photo showing painful bruises on her wrists from where she was handcuffed by the NYPD.The New York Times., the National Press Photographers Association says that the organization fully supports Keith who was doing nothing more than her job as a visual journalist.
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