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I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
They are being arrested too. You need to deliberately select someone as a target for arrest.
Over 100 upvotes in 20 minutes for something non tech related?
While this site trends heavily towards tech, it is not so narrow-minded that we cannot discuss things not strictly related to that subject.
I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
And I can't imagine, after months of wall-to-wall COVID-19 coverage, how you can still believe that the US press is anything other than outlets of biased and profit-driven crisis porn. That doesn't justify attacks on reporters, but today's journalists aren't just part of the problem, arguably they are the problem.
I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.
That, and the journalists are literally there to record evidence of their abuse. Police don't like it too much when you record evidence of them, say, beating a peaceful protester, or forcing a weapon into the hands of someone already pinned to the ground.
Definitely seen excessive use of force against seemingly peaceful protesters, but context is everything, and a 10 second snippet does not tell the full story of the interactions between that protester and that cop for the 45 minutes leading up to those 10 seconds.
I tend to reserve my judgement on those types of videos, since cops have been also taking a beating in the last few days with bricks, rocks, water bottles, etc... thrown at them off camera or before those clips start, where the convenient "editing" is done to portray the cops as the "bad guys" when often they have spent the last hour being insulted, assaulted and injured before they decide to move in with force on that "peaceful" protester...
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They were though. The videos out of twitter are completely horrifying. An endless wave of cops hearing "Reporter! Here's my badge! I am a reporter!" and just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. I saw a video where an officer smashed their video camera. A big one, the style a professional reporter uses. It's our democracy. And we want to hope for the best. But damn if this isn't worrisome.…
> just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. That's how law generally works. It does not matter who violates it. If you see a problem with the law - change the law. Do not bash police officers for enforcing it.
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They were though. The videos out of twitter are completely horrifying. An endless wave of cops hearing "Reporter! Here's my badge! I am a reporter!" and just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. I saw a video where an officer smashed their video camera. A big one, the style a professional reporter uses. It's our democracy. And we want to hope for the best. But damn if this isn't worrisome.…
> just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. That's how law generally works. It does not matter who violates it. If you see a problem with the law - change the law. Do not bash police officers for enforcing it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were though. The videos out of twitter are completely horrifying. An endless wave of cops hearing "Reporter! Here's my badge! I am a reporter!" and just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. I saw a video where an officer smashed their video camera. A big one, the style a professional reporter uses. It's our democracy. And we want to hope for the best. But damn if this isn't worrisome.…
> just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. That's how law generally works. It does not matter who violates it. If you see a problem with the law - change the law. Do not bash police officers for enforcing it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were though. The videos out of twitter are completely horrifying. An endless wave of cops hearing "Reporter! Here's my badge! I am a reporter!" and just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. I saw a video where an officer smashed their video camera. A big one, the style a professional reporter uses. It's our democracy. And we want to hope for the best. But damn if this isn't worrisome.…
> just ... not caring. Bash their face, mace them, just follow orders. That's how law generally works. It does not matter who violates it. If you see a problem with the law - change the law. Do not bash police officers for enforcing it.
I think it would show more nuanced sentiment to say, that on 110 occasions journalists ended up caught in aggressive police action since May 28. Current wording would have an implication for many people, that journalists were deliberately chosen as targets.
There is plenty of video footage of journalists being directly targeted and attacked by the police.