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CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by sparkling »

newacct583 wrote: post #47
sparkling wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> when the looting starts the shooting starts Harsh words, but at the end of the day, people will defend their property with a gun and have every right in doing so.

Trump was talking literally about directing the military to shoot looters (it's right there in the tweet!), not expressing an abstract right of people to defend their own property. So no, downvoting you isn't anything to do with the constitution.

> Trump was talking literally about directing the military to shoot looters

Uhm, no

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by wcoenen »

void_nill wrote: post #31

Since this entry was flagged without justification, which shows me that censorship is taking place, I will not use HN in the future or support it in any other way. I will discuss with my lawyer how I can enforce the deletion of my account according to European guidelines.

> flagged without justification

From the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This story was not only covered in TV news, it literally was the TV news.

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by xxs »

ciarannolan wrote: post #50
xxs wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The post is gone effectively from HN already. There are enough 'new' accounts (incl. top post) that just press 'flag'

I thought you couldn't flag until you had some minimum level of karma, no?

It is 51 karma, which is quite low to clear as it takes only 10 to be x-upvote. OP - used to be 140+ points, which should put it easily on the 1st page - but it's flagged and gone.

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by ativzzz »

philipov wrote: post #32

Why is this flagged?

From the posting guidelines:

"What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. "

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by maest »

meragrin_ wrote: post #35
kmonsen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The arrested reporter was black, there was another White CB reporter standing nearby that was not arrested. Perhaps it’s all coincidence. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/minneapolis-cnn-crew-arres...

The producer and camera man were not so it was not strictly based on race. I just find it very convenient there is no other video of the arrest. They were probably the only camera crew around and the cops wanted them gone.

Convenient for who?

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by meragrin_ »

hjek wrote: post #33
void_nill wrote: post #31

Since this entry was flagged without justification, which shows me that censorship is taking place, I will not use HN in the future or support it in any other way. I will discuss with my lawyer how I can enforce the deletion of my account according to European guidelines.

Thanks for posting this. Much appreciated. Sad that it's being flagged.

Why is it sad it is flagged? There's nothing really to discuss. The video just shows some arrests with very little other context. I don't care whether they call themselves journalists. People are rioting in the area. For all I know, they could have been taking actions to harass the cops for no good reason prior to the part they posted. "Journalists" are quite known for removing important context from video/audio to tell a story they want the viewers to believe. Now I'm not saying that is what they did, but it is just as believable as the racism story being pushed.

Re: CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

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Post by newacct583 »

sparkling wrote: post #51
newacct583 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump was talking literally about directing the military to shoot looters (it's right there in the tweet!), not expressing an abstract right of people to defend their own property. So no, downvoting you isn't anything to do with the constitution.

> Trump was talking literally about directing the military to shoot looters Uhm, no

Quote the tweet then.
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