Police arrest CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and crew on live television
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the prime example of journalists being arrested while reporting during the 2020 protests.
What it is
CNN footage of correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew being arrested live on air by police while covering protests in Minneapolis in 2020, after identifying themselves as press.
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What Hacker News said
Cites gundmc · 2020-05 · on “CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]”
The linked video and description are from The Independent reposting CNN's feed. The CNN video has no such description: [this video]
Cites gpm · 2020-06 · on “ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press”
30 seconds in this clip of the video [this video] I remembered this as being stated too the cops much clearer than it actually was. Likely I was mixing what they said with what the CNN reporters said later on when they were replaying this clip.
Cites trabant00 · 2020-06 · on “George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter”
Watched first 10 videos with youtube links in the list: url - description - what I see in the video [LINK] - trampling a peaceful protestor with a horse - protester stepped into the horse's way without looking in that direction, nobody's fault [LINK] - Shoving an unarmed woman to the curb, prompting a seizure that put her in the emergency room - police pushed somebody away from them, clip is cut right at the push, we have no context on what prompted that [LINK] - doing an intentional hit-and-run with a car door to an unarmed protestor standing in the non-vehicular bike lane - protesters standing in the street in front of emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, but the door hit (m
Cites jakelazaroff · 2020-12 · on “Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year”
Many are clearly journalists, e.g. Omar Jimenez, the CNN reporter who was arrested on live TV along with his camera crew: [this video]
Cites runako · 2020-12 · on “Record Breaking Number of Journalists Arrested in the U.S. This Year”
> not with a NBC news truck Reminder that a CNN journalist was arrested during a live broadcast this year: [this video] I'm not sure riot declarations are supposed to allow the police to arrest journalists this way. (And if they are, we should challenge them on Constitutional grounds.)