Chris Hayes was just threatened by a cop live on MSNBC

[frazzled]

46. Or maybe he's more in charge than you think?

Now, I'm not casting any blame on him when I pass on these accounts--things on the ground can be pretty confusing, a sort of "fog of war"--but three professional reporters have said that Captain Johnson followed them and then ordered them handcuffed last night. They were quickly released, as in the earlier detention of reporters last week, but still, they were clear about who issued the order, and you can hear it on the audio ...

Echoing the arrests of the Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly and the Washington Post's Wesley Lowery earlier this week, three reporters said they were briefly handcuffed and detained by police. Other reporters said officers threatened them with mace, while one radio reporter caught an officer's threat to shoot him on tape.

Three journalists -- Neil Munshi of the Financial Times, Robert Klemko of Sports Illustrated and Rob Crilly of the Telegraph -- tweeted that they were briefly detained and handcuffed by Missouri highway police Capt. Ron Johnson. Munshi emphasized that the three of them were held by police but were not arrested.

(Please see their on-the-scene tweets with video/audio at http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/police-threaten-reporters-in-ferguson-mace