Business Insider VIDEO: Police firing tear gas at TV Crew and Take Equipment

[cui bono]

Raw video footage at link.

Wednesday night, local news channel KSDK caught footage and photos of a SWAT team firing tear gas at an Al Jazeera America TV crew that was covering the events behind the police barricade. The SWAT team then moved to dismantle and carry off their camera equipment.

Marla Cichowski, a field producer at Al Jazeera America, gave her side of the situation in the same statement:

We were clearly set up as press with a full live shot set up. As soon as first bullet hit the car we screamed out loud, "We are press,’ ‘This is media."

Police that were there at the intersection directing traffic earlier knew we were there. We never drove around the police barricade.

There was another station local NBC parked across the street from us the whole time.

They shined a huge flood light at us before firing and I can only imagine they could see what they were shooting at.

http://www.businessinsider.com/police-fire-tear-gas-on-al-jazeera-america-tv-crew-and-then-take-their-equipment-2014-8

[Warpy]

1. I'm a little surprised this is being posted

I guess the media are sticking together more than competing, providing a counter to the "thin blue line" of rogue cops dressed up like paramilitary and all too full of themselves.

[cui bono]

2. I'm surprised by it being on Business Insider.

I followed a link there about militarization in Ferguson and found another good article about militarizing our police forces. Found this one this morning. They are posting some interesting articles.

[woo me with science]

4. +1 They've been surprising for awhile.

I remember being surprised when they published those fantastic articles on inequality. I am still pulling up and linking to those charts all the time.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1

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7. Good to know. n/t

[Warpy]

6. Business Insider was one of my go-to places during Stupid's administration

because they ran some of the best articles on that bunch and what they were really up to.

It's a site to watch.

[cui bono]

8. I'll be checking them more often now. n/t

[myrna minx]

3. That is so disturbing, especially the officer who's holding the gun, behaving

like he's in a street in Fallujah and not the suburb of Ferguson. Crazy.

[Robbins]

5. The police screwed up

when they went after press.Media Is asking tough questions not just accepting the BS from Fergusion Police Chief trying to blame it on
protesters.