Not a good sign for media access tonight in Ferguson. . . Getty Images photographer just arrested

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Ryan J. Reilly ‏@ryanjreilly 9m
Getty Images photographer arrested in #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/ScOaHO8bjY



Ryan J. Reilly ‏@ryanjreilly 2m
He was literally just across the street from the media area. Not a good sign for media access tonight. #Ferguson

[etherealtruth]

1. Does not bode well for the residents of Ferguson

... or Freedom of the Press

[BobbyBoring]

30. Or our (are) country

This is becoming the new normal.
Facism will come to America carrying a cross and draped in a flag.

[conservaphobe]

2. And so it begins.

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[tavalon]

25. The shadow image you have is iconic,

and never should have had to be. Now another and another and another yet. Ugh.

[valerief]

4. The military revolution will not be televised. nt

[HooptieWagon]

5. Cops dont want photographic evidence...

that exposes their lies.

[JEB]

6. Fascism.

Fuck the police.

[jwirr]

7. When are the National Guard supposed to show up? They only have one more night

to do their dirty work. I would guess it is going to get bad.

I do not know about the rest of you but I will never set foot in MO. I do not want to visit any place like this.

[951-Riverside]

10. Looks like they've been there for a few hours

Notice that they position the unarmed grunts closer to the cameras while the armed ones are way in the back.







I think the Police and NG are working in concert to take down certain news photographers before moving in. They don't want people seeing whatever they have planned.

If it lived in Ferguson I'd prop a web cam in my front window (provided they don't cut off electricity.)

Missouri is a nasty place when it comes to race, the 1st amendment and media.

[Glimmer of Hope]

8. Arrested for what?

[Lindsay]

29. As I understand it,

there was a specific area designated for the press, and Olson was not inside it.

So much for that freedom of the press thing we used to hear about.

[csziggy]

35. So they are putting the press in a "Free Speech Zone"

Instead of putting the protestors in one?

Ironic, especially since the press never publicized Free Speech Zones for all the years protestors were segregated into them.

[sheshe2]

9. Not a good sign at all.

[ecstatic]

11. This is surreal. nt

[VanGoghRocks]

12. Here's my pictorial response to that picture of incipient fascism:

[Ruby the Liberal]

13. That is Scott Olsen - a rather famous (and fearless) photog

This is one of his pics from Ferguson. He has been in war zones all over the world.

[Jacoby365]

34. That's insanity.

Notice the mailbox. How appropriate.

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. More of Scott Olsen's photos from Ferguson

Via Getty Images

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?query=z.i.H4sIAAAAAAAEAOy9B2AcSZYlJi9tynt_SvVK1-B0oQiAYBMk2JBAEOzBiM3mkuwdaUcjKasqgcplVmVdZhZAzO2dvPfee--999577733ujudTif33_8_XGZkAWz2zkrayZ4hgKrIHz9-fB8_In7dfLn91et__p97_nv82l-9Pv51zxbZRf5r_hq_xq8xo___hs20atu0Kptq-WuO8Kk8v_aX5-f2j8hjWv6aSV1V7cuszhbNr6Of_Vr4_-4Ofr1j2v_u5pffDP_8pvT_X-_d6-vm9B0Dwf-9vxlIZvv_NfV3wP21s_OpxdL8gf__2vi5w10vWvem-_3Xocal_cL-hfd-XfqjXliw4Z-_Pprv4q9fjz-fWBidv_m18xCK_ZOh7Fgo5x0o7m9-rQ6h2D8Zyp6FUneguL-JMrl56dfEH7-2_sFk2sVvv6Fp-xvjHxCOaJKvzKe_ZvDXr51PGvuN-YOJnTscvN9_rdw1937_tZvVyn6OPwyOv5V98XLqXnS__zpV7bGK_Yu_muT-V-YvPL_27Gppfv81zR_g0l-nWXvjCf76tfPMYeD_Qb-v_C_sH79uE0AL__y13z177iaC_rBfZLWHm_fHb0QSucqfrJez0iNi8KkB-OOA82DnPn7_dYiH1rZ58BcR2hsS_WHeBx_8us-ysskZwryWd4SQ-AszjOdjfL2_t__A_PFr7-095HcmwTsT751P_Hfwh3mH2NEJqP_Hr_civ8ob--f_EwAA___0jq_3twQAAA..&rid=506641261&rcat=Event&rt=MO%3a+Outrage+In+Missouri+Town+After+Police+Shooting+Of+18-Yr-Old+Man

[littlemissmartypants]

15. Kicking. Thank you. nt

[drray23]

16. the entire police force needs to be pulled

They have absolutely zero training. What the heck are they arresting a photoreporter for ? He is in a public street.

I really hope some of the big news organizations who have the means to go through litigation start filling lawsuits and drain the city coffers. Get rid of the current leadership and restart from scratch.

[billhicks76]

17. WTF

This how the revolution in Egypt started...one case of police brutality that was the straw that broke the camels back.

[99th_Monkey]

18. Linky Poo? ~nt

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21. .

Getty Images @GettyImages · 41m
Statement from Pancho Bernasconi, VP, News, on the arrest of @GettyImages photographer Scott Olson in #Ferguson http://bitly.com/1n3vbDy

Photo Journalist Arrested In Ferguson
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2014/08/18/3472820/photo-journalist-arrested-ferguson/

[99th_Monkey]

22. Thanks ~nt

[jtuck004]

19. About 1910 when the workers trying to stop crooked employers were jailed in Spokane

they put out a call for "men to fill the jails of Spokane". They did, and a few women came as well. Wobblies and others. Got the law changed in about a year. Police used steam and cold to try to sicken and kill them (killed a few), and allowed/ran a brothel out of the women's side. Others were imprisoned in Coeur D'alene, ID in open air stockades, and visiting wives were sometimes violated in front of them by the police while they were held behind the wire.

Police haven't changed.

But with all these press folks being arrested, it would be interesting if 10,000 or so reporters showed up to fill their jails. Wouldn't be room for any more black townsfolk, I suspect. The town budget would drop into the red and stay there for years, and this stupidity just might be over.

They wouldn't have to raise an arm. Regardless of your intentions that seems to be a bad thing to do in Ferguson.

[Hoppy]

20. I expect the reporters to win about 5 figures in lawsuitsagainst the porcine municipal employees.

[tavalon]

28. Porcine municipal employees

Magnificent. Alas, putting lipstick on a pig still leaves it a pig, eh?

[Hoppy]

31. I bought a used dictionary at a garage sale on Saturday.

[tavalon]

32. And you are continuing its use.

I love that phrase, btw.

[lpbk2713]

23. Is it a requirement to be a skinhead to be a cop?

Or is it just because they are all neo-Nazis?

[davidpdx]

24. Don Lemon got manhandled by the police as well

[flamingdem]

26. Even Don!

And with that we really know it's fully out of control. Of course they probably don't watch cable so they strong armed him while he was broadcasting to a rather large number of people.

[Ineeda]

33. They only watch Faux Snooze, not that Commie CNN. n/t

[davidpdx]

36. He's such a menese you know

[RKP5637]

27. Here's a live stream ...

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