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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScott Olson was arrested for not being in the "designated media area"
You got that, citizen? You can stay in your Free Speech Zone, and/or your Designated Media Area.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/oh-beautiful-for-spacious-skies.html
bananas
(27,509 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Maybe i'm being paranoid.
Bryant
TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)That's exactly what happened last night in Ferguson. They tried to get all of the media into their areas and then started arresting everyone that wasn't media.
I watched live video as the events were happening... The police were corralling people who were trying to leave the area. The only people allowed to enter certain areas were people with legitimate media credentials. The rest were turned back and eventually trapped and likely arrested.
I saw a cop rip the press sticker off of Tim Pool from VICE and then begrudgingly allow him to pass. It was bizarre.
From last night:
- 78 people arrested
- 2 people shot
- Shots fired at police
- 6 journalists arrested
TYY
Edited to add: Everything started to go downhill magically at midnight. Funny that, since the curfew had been lifted.
avebury
(10,951 posts)so that they don't fall behind last years number probably.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)TeeYiYi
(8,028 posts)Amazing. I wonder what possible legal reason they gave for doing that.
TYY
Edited to add photo and link to reports from last night.
http://aattp.org/ferguson-police-removed-amnesty-international-observers-media-from-protest-area-images/
TYY
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)America has an arrest addiction.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)If one's constitutional rights are being infringed upon, what can be done at the time? Who is protecting people from the police? I don't understand why the police are allowed to act illegally every night with no repercussions. Isn't there an agency that supersedes them?
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)If enough of us take to the streets, post & observe livestreams, and keep passing on the Truth through blogs and word of mouth We will prevail.
There is a reason they want to end Net Neutrality.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)terrorized, threatened with shooting and even shot. Government is supposed to protect us and if it doesn't, it is tyranny. The Democratic governor has been less than useless. That community needs help NOW.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)engaging in that cover-up?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)And the look on his face is priceless.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)This stuff needed to be nipped in the bud when they first started to appear during the Bush years.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Anybody still against that term here?