Some media advocates draw a direct line from Trump’s rhetoric to the widespread incidents
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.In Minneapolis, where protests first ignited after the May 25 slaying of George Floyd, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez, seen here on May 29, 2020, and his crew were arrested and handcuffed by state police while filming a segment in the middle of a near empty street.
In Minneapolis, where protests first ignited after the May 25 slaying of George Floyd, CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrested and handcuffed by state police while filming a segment in the middle of a near empty street. The Governor of Minnesota apologized for the arrest of the journalists.
“He literally lifted me off my feet,” she told The Globe and Mail in an interview. “That’s a whole level of aggression that I’ve never experienced before.” Ms. Davidson said that she believes she would have been trampled by riot police had protesters not pulled her from the ground to safety. The violence toward reporters was also dispensed by civilians. Briana Whitney, a CBS-affiliated television reporter in Phoenix, was describing a protest scene to viewers, when a man yelled a vulgarity at her and tried to tackle her, nearly knocking her over. Meanwhile, in Atlanta on Friday, throngs of protesters broke windows and spray painted the CNN logo outside the network’s headquarters.
David Kaye, a law professor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to free expression, cited the “incessant attacks by Trump on the press” as part of the reason why so many journalists were finding themselves in harm’s way.
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