Police in Minnesota round up journalists covering protest, force them on the ground and take picture

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

pictures of their faces

Journalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement, rounded up and were only released after having their face and press credentials photographed.

The incident occurred hours after a judge issued a temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists, according to court documents. It also barred police from seizing photographic, audio or video recording equipment, or press passes.

Demonstrators gathered to protest the death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where the 20-year-old Black man was fatally shot by a white police officer during a traffic stop Sunday.

Approximately 500 protesters were marching peacefully until around 9 p.m. when an incident triggered police to start using chemical irritants such as tear gas, pepper balls and projectiles, Jasper Colt, a photojournalist with the USA TODAY Network, reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-in-minnesota-round-up-journalists-covering-protest-force-them-on-the-ground-and-take-pictures-of-their-faces/ar-BB1fLgmf

Bunch of jack booted thugs.

[pdxflyboy]

1. Folking Gestapo. N/T

[gratuitous]

2. Done hours after the order was issued

But so what? It's not like any of them will lose their jobs. Or if they do, they just move to the next town over. If there are fines to be paid for disobeying the judge, the good people of Brooklyn Center will be the ones pungling up, not the cops.

The actions of the cops tell me the cops are really mad about something. It doesn't appear that they're mad that one of their own shot and killed Daunte Wright. So I wonder what they're so mad about?

[Mary in S. Carolina]

3. Fire the Entire Police Department

Now!! And the National Guard...if involved! They are "playing" the young "black Mayor". Fire them!!!

[2naSalit]

6. +1

They have obviously declared war on We the People.

[TheRealNorth]

10. That sounds like contempt of the legal process to me.

Officers MUST be fired. Isn't criminal contempt a felony?

[rickyhall]

4. Why we used to call them pigs

[triron]

5. They are paid thugs.

American gestapo.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. They have earned that name and then some.

[wnylib]

7. I saw this re-run the first time it came out

in 1968 in Chicago.

This kind of thing makes me think that huge numbers of human rights supporters need to converge on the scene in solidarity for the journalists and protesters being targeted by fascist cops.

[Liberty Belle]

8. Fuckers. Press corps needs a class action lawsuit against this department.

[TheRealNorth]

11. Cops should be taken on vacation to Club Fed

[Humanist_Activist]

9. During the Stockley protest here in St. Louis, the cops kettled and arrested press along...

with protestors all the time. Many businesses downtown opened their doors to the protestors so they wouldn't be rounded up by the cops.

Fascists will do what they always do.

[JoeOtterbein]

12. As a father of a journalist this s... really...

...p.....me off!

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. They truly believe they are above the law.

Judge, next move is yours.

[KatK]

15. Journalists shot with rubber bullets and/or roughed up nightly at Brooklyn Center

This reporter - Mark Vancleave, a video journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune - hospitalized and won't be able to lift his camera for many weeks.

https://www.rawstory.com/brooklyn-center/

[frogmarch]

16. WTF!

What is happening? This can't go on!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Abolish the police.

[thenelm1]

18. Oh, that should do wonders to the impression that the police have taken anything...

from the last year to heart and made any self-reflection or attempts to goodwill to the people they are supposed serve regarding their behavior. It's still them against the world. Screw that whole concept of them being public servants to their community thing. We're all perceived as "enemies" - particularly if not white. I guess the people they're supposed to serve are just more Iraqi's and Afghani's now. Let's see how far that winning attitude gets them going forward. Talk about being completely tone deaf. Here we are a year after Floyd and these morons still think they have free reign to terrorize the communities they are supposed to serve. It amazes me how anyone in the law enforcement field with an iota of intelligence, or ability to self-reflect and can think for themselves, can not realize that their continued attitude to the inmates, i.e. citizens, they took an oath to protect & serve, think that being dicks to anyone they encounter is ultimately going to end well for them. This isn't an eff'in gulag.

[Arazi]

19. +1 million

[rockfordfile]

20. The person or persons who gave that order to arrest reporters should be fired

It's like they're trying to hide something.

[TheRealNorth]

21. Or purposefully enflame things

Something a Boogaloo, 3 %r, or Sad (Proud) Boy would do.

[msfiddlestix]

22. Geeze, astonishing given the Court Order

I remember the police doing this during antii-war protests during build up to and after the Iraq war got started.

just effing incredible considering everything.

[ananda]

23. The police are getting worse... totally out of control.

I hope they file a lawsuit and bankrupt the whole department!

[bluestarone]

24. Just what options does this judge have? (that's the problem, and that's what the QRUMPIES want)

They want our court system destroyed!