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Last updated on 16 July 2020 at 3:20 pm.
With this constantly updating article – Hollywood Insider will list instances of journalists and members of the press that have been attacked violently by the U.S. police while covering the Black Lives Matter movement. This is a COMPLETELY DISGUSTING violation of the freedom of the press and an attack on the First Amendment of the U.S. Consitution.
Since the start of the Black Lives Matters protests after the wrongful death of George Floyd, journalists have been covering the movement throughout the USA. What has been evidently shocking is the abuse and violent attacks on the members of the press by the police force. Police brutality has decided to not spare press and journalism either. This violence coming from police across our nation is a blatant disregard for constitutional rights for journalists and people in general.
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The FIRST AMENDMENT protects the freedom of press – the placement of this protection being the first on the list – shows to you exactly HOW INCREDIBLY important the freedom of press must have been and continues to be. Why do people not recite the importance of the Constitution of the United States when it comes to freedom of press? As protesters march throughout the world to protest police brutality towards Black people, now the police have decided to show that brutality towards press too?
Freedom of the press is protected under the First Amendment, so why is law enforcement so quick to forget this, and incite violence against the press? These reporters attending protests are the key to our public truly receiving information from all angles, which is crucial for our democracy.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has collected and recorded all incidents involving members of the press in the U.S Press Freedom Tracker, and the number of attacks have been coming in at increasingly fast rates since May. Here is a look at incidents of violence against the press.
Hollywood Insider fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement that has united our world – with 50 states and over 16 countries participating. This is only the beginning – please don’t stop now. 97% of the protests are peaceful and non-violent and it IS working. Keep going. We believe in peaceful/non-violent protests.
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26 May – 1st day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Freelance journalist and CNN political commentator, Keith Boykin, is arrested at a protest in Manhattan even after identifying himself as a member of the press. Boykin was taking pictures and videos for his Twitter feed when officers told him to move. He told officers he was a member of the media and they told him it “didn’t matter” and proceeded to arrest him and throw him in the back of an overheated van for an hour.
28 May – 3rd day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Photojournalist for The Denver Post, Hyoung Chang, was hit with pepper balls multiple times at a protest in Denver, Colorado. Chang was taking pictures near the officers and was never told to move out of the way. Instead, officers began firing into the crowd and one officer targeted Chang specifically. Chang said. “I’m very sure it was the same guy twice. I’m very sure he pointed at me.”
29 May – 4th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – While covering the fourth night of protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota at least eight members of the press were attacked. Freelance writer and photographer Linda Tiraldo was hit by a rubber bullet in the face and as a result is now permanently blind in her left eye. Tiraldo was hit with a tracker round first and when she started yelling that she was with the press, the officers paid it no mind.
30 May – 5th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Sam Trilling, a freelance photojournalist, is struck by a police baton while covering protests in Philadelphia. Trilling was near a barricade taking photos of the protest when an officer struck him across the abdomen with a baton.
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31 May – 6th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Brianna Sacks, a BuzzFeed News journalist is detained while reporting at Santa Monica protests. She showed police her press badger several times, but they continued to detain her with her hands in zip ties and failed to tell her why they were doing so.
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1 June – 7th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – KPIX 5 News reporter Katie Nielsen is detained while reporting on protests in Oakland, California. Nielsen said as curfew approached an officer approached her and proceeded to cuff her hands behind her back. She explained she was a reporter and showed press badges but was still cuffed.
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2 June – 8th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – In Los Angeles, California, freelance photojournalist Aaron Guy Leroux is arrested while covering protests. Leroux had already told multiple officers he was with the press. Leroux saw protestors getting arrested and another officer asked if he was with the press. When Leroux answered yes and showed credentials, the officer said “You’re getting arrested.”
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4 June – 10th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Reporters Jonece Starr Dunigan and Howard Koplowitz from AL.Com are taken into custody while covering protests in Birmingham, Alabama. Koplowitz was filming from his cellphone when an officer approached and told him they were being arrested. They both explained they were media and officers disregarded their comments.
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5 June – 11th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Gothamist reporter, Sydney Pereira is shoved by NYPD while trying to report on an earlier arrest that had happened.
15 June – 21st day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Reporter Beth Nakamura from The Oregonian is shoved by police from behind with a baton while explaining she is with the press.
22 June – 28th day of Black Lives Matter protests and police attacks on journalists – Shelby Talcott, a reporter for The Daily Caller, was harassed and handcuffed by police near Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Park. Protestors shoved Talcott into the police line, and officers then handcuffed her before releasing her afterwards.
Last updated on 16 July 2020 at 3:20 pm.
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