Police are clearly targeting journalists everywhere
This has got to be a new low for our police state.
A number of efforts are underway to try to track the attacks on journalists, which are often first documented on Twitter. Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Waters had documented 140 incidents by Friday morning. You can see a visualization of the violence against journalists here. Bellingcat notes:
Although in some incidents it is possible the journalists were hit or affected accidentally, in the majority of the cases we have recorded the journalists are clearly identifiable as press, and it is clear that they are being deliberately targeted. This pattern of violence against journalists is replicated in several cities, but appears most intense in Minneapolis.
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker counts more than 300 total press freedom violations.
OUR LATEST DATA AS OF 9:30PM ET JUNE 4
*300+ total press freedom incidents*
49+ arrests
192 assaults (160 by police)
42 equipment/newsroom damageAssault category breakdown:
69 physical attacks (43 by cops)
43 tear gassings
24 pepper sprayings
77 rubber bullets/projectiles— U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (@uspresstracker) June 5, 2020
This must be all part of making America great again.
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Have any of the journalists that were arrested been
covering any of the protests since? Did they get sent a message to not focus on the police brutality and instead focus more on the rioting and looting? I don’t have cable so I don’t see what the media narrative is now.
There, I fixed it for you shows how the media was setting the narrative instead of telling what was actually happening. Damn we are under constant bombardment of propaganda it’s hard to know what is actually happening. The silence from anyone in power is deafening isn’t it? It’s almost like....?
WOW!
Check out the tweets here and see how huge the protests are in cities across the country and the pond. Looks like every one of them were peaceful. Why? No cops!
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
Harris is unburdened of speaking going forward.
Thanks for that snoopy ... eom
We should target journalists, too
The major network ones. They deserve it. They ponder TrumpTweets looking puzzled, bothsider stuff until the news is the equivalent of first draft of history high fructose corn syrup. We should knock them down, steal their lunch money, pee on them and make sure they are very, very afraid of us. Unfortunately, we rarely get that close, since we're barred from hanging with the hoipoloi.
Reporters, on the other hand, are ok, them having to toil among us. They're the ones getting beat on. Esp. when the journalists turn their experiences into mush.
After Assange
It's a good idea to remove your Press Credentials from your wallet.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"