A TOTAL OF SIX JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AS A RESULT OF
THEM COVERING THE PROTESTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN WASHINGTON DC ON
THE DAY OF DONALD TRUMP'S IN OUR DURATION.
ADDITION ñ INITIALLY TWO JOURNALISTS HAD BEEN ARRESTED,
AND NOW FOR MORE HAVE BEEN REPORTED AS ARRESTED, AND THEY
ARE FACING CHARGES RELATED TO RIOTING.
LET ME BE CLEAR ABOUT SOMETHING BEFORE I GET INTO THE
DETAILS OF WHO THESE JOURNALISTS WERE.
THE POLICE REPORTS DO NOT SPECIFY WHAT THESE
JOURNALISTS ALLEGEDLY DID.
IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEM BREAKING WINDOWS, OR WHAT
THEY ALLEGEDLY SPECIFICALLY DID TO TAKE PART IN RIOTING.
AND IN FACT, THE RIGHT ñ THE LIGHT WOOD ON ALL OF THE POLICE
REPORTS FOR ALL OF THESE JOURNALISTS IS EXACTLY THE SAME:
IT'S VAGUE, IT SAYS THERE WAS RIOTING, BUT THERE ARE NO
SPECIFICS ABOUT IT.
BUT JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH FELONIES AFTER
BEING ARRESTED WHILE COVERING THE UNREST AROUND DONALD TRUMP'S
INAUGURATION.
AT LEAST SIX MEDIA WORKERS ARE FACING UP TO 10
YEARS IN PRISON AND A $25,000 FINE IF CONVICTED.
TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF WHO THESE JOURNALISTS ARE ñ AND IT'S
AMAZING, BECAUSE THIS IS A REALLY SERIOUS STORY PERTAINING
TO OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS, FREEDOM OF PRESS, YOU SHARE THE
STORY AND THE SHEEP COME FLOCKING IN.
IT'S ALL, MAYBE THEY WERE RIOTING, MAYBE THEY WERE
BREAKING THE LAW.
MAYBE THEY ARE EVEN JOURNALISTS.
HERE ARE THE INDIVIDUALS I GOT ARRESTED: EVAN ENGEL OF VOCATIV
AND ALEX RUBENSTEIN OF ARCHIE AMERICA HAD ALSO BEEN TAKEN INTO
A CUSTOMER ñ INTO CUSTODY BY POLICE AND CHARGED WITH FELONIES
WHILE COVERING THE SAME UNREST FRIDAY MORNING.
WHAT HAPPENED?
I THOUGHT TRUMP WAS IN FAVOR OF RT AMERICA.
RT STANDS FOR RUSSIA TODAY.
HE WILL PROBABLY BE LET OUT SOONÖ OR, PRODUCER FOR THE DUCK
MINISERIES STORIES ELEMENT ñ STORY OF AMERICA, SAID HE WAS
DETAINED FOR ABOUT 36 HOURS AND THEN ARRESTED.
ALSO ARRESTED WHILE COVERING THE DEMONSTRATIONS WERE SHAY HORSE,
AN INDEPENDENT PHOTOJOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST, AND AARON CANTU,
FREELANCE JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST.
NONE OF THE ARREST REPORTS FOR ANY OF THE SIX JOURNALISTS MAKES
ANY SPECIFIC ALLEGATIONS ABOUT WHAT ANY OF THEM ARE SUPPOSED TO
HAVE DONE WRONG DURING THESE PROTESTS.
SO, LET ME GIVE YOU THE GENERAL THING THAT THEY WERE ALL CHARGED
WITH: THEY SAY THAT ñ LOOK, THERE WAS SOME RIOTING SOMEWHERE
IN THE CITIES, BECAUSE SOME WINDOWS WERE BROKEN AND PROPERTY
WAS DAMAGED, THAT'S TRUE ñ WHAT WE DO IN AMERICA IS, WE FIND THE
PERSON WHO ACTUALLY DID IT AND THEN WE TRY THEM.
WE DON'T JUST ROUNDED EVERYBODY UP AND GO, I DON'T KNOW,
WINDOWS WERE BROKEN, THEY WERE THERE, I DIDN'T SEE WHO DID
IT I JUST ROUNDED THEM ALL UP.
THERE WAS SIX JOURNALISTS, BECAUSE THERE WAS 200 PEOPLE
ARRESTED OVERALL, AND IN THE REPORT THEY SAY, THE CROWD WAS
OBSERVED ENTICING A RIOT.
SO THAT'S APPARENTLY A THING NOW, ENTICING A RIOT.
HOW CAN YOU ENTICE A RIGHT?
I DON'T KNOW, IT'S MADE UP, IT'S NEW, BUT APPARENTLY THEY
CAN DO IT.
IF THEY ARE VIDEOTAPING IT, YOU CALL IT NEWS, I CALL IT
ENTICING.
THIS IS CRAZY, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR LOCAL IDEOLOGY IS; I DON'T
CARE IF THE PEOPLE THAT GOT ARRESTED WERE FROM THE BLAZE.
I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS TOMI LAHREN WHO WAS OUT THERE
VIDEOTAPING THAT STUFF, AND SHE GOT ARRESTED UNDER THE SAME
CIRCUMSTANCES; I WOULD BE JUST AS OUTRAGED.
THIS IS ON ACCEPTABLE, BECAUSE YOU NEED REPORTERS ON THE GROUND
TO GIVE ACCURATE DETAILS OF WHAT'S ACTUALLY OCCURRING,
OTHERWISE YOU ONLY GET ONE SIDE OF THE STORY, AND THAT SIDE
COMES FROM AUTHORITIES WHO PROBABLY INDISCRIMINATELY ARREST
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THESE PROTESTS.
ONE OF THE JOURNALISTS SAID ñ THAT WAS DEFENDING THE OTHERS
ñ DON'T YOU WANT THE JOURNALISTS TO COVER THIS SERIOUS STORY
ABOUT THE BROKEN WINDOWS, AND THE VEHICLES THAT WERE ON FIRE?
LIKE, YOU ARE OUTRAGED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, THAT'S WHY WE
WERE ROLLING ON IT, SO WE CAN SHOW PEOPLE WHAT HAPPENED
AND HOW IT WASN'T GOOD.
YOU SEE, THAT'S WHAT NEWS DOES: IT COVERS THINGS THAT ARE
IN THE NEWS.
AND THAT WAS AVAILABLE HAPPENING BY PROTESTERS.
NO, DOESN'T MATTER, YOU ARE IN THE GENERAL VALIDITY, ROUND THEM
UP AND ñ YOU ARE IN THE GENERAL VICINITY, SO ROUND THEM UP.
THIS IS THE TRUMP ERA.
LET'S JUST GO VAGUE.
THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE NEW ERA, WE CAN STILL FOLLOW
THE OLD LAWS.
THIS IS NOT US SITTING HERE SAYING, IT WAS DIRECTED BY
TRUMP!
I DON'T THINK IT WAS DIRECTED BY TRUMP, BUT I DO THINK THAT IF
YOU HAVE THIS ENVIRONMENT OF LAWLESSNESS, WHERE YOU DON'T
VALUE PEOPLE'S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS; WHERE YOU RUTHLESSLY AND
MERCILESSLY ATTACKED JOURNALISTS, NAME OF THEM AND
BASELY DIRECT PEOPLE TO HARASS THEM, WELL THEN WHAT KIND
OF PROTECTION DO JOURNALISTS HAVE?
SO, DO PEOPLE FEEL EMBOLDENED TO OVERUSE THEIR POWER?
TO STEP OUT OF BOUNDS AND USE THEIR POWER TO DO THINGS LIKE,
YOU KNOW, BASICALLY VIOLATE SOMEONE'S FIRST AMENDMENT
RIGHTS?
YEAH, I FEEL LIKE THAT IS WHAT WAS HAPPENING HERE.
IF THEY WERE FOUND WRITING AND DAMAGING PROPERTY, YOU
THINK THEY WOULD BE SPECIFIC IN THOSE POLICE REPORTS?
WHY IS THE LANGUAGE EXACTLY THE SAME IN EVERY POLICE REPORT?
AND AS VAGUE AS, ENTICING A RIOT.
THAT'S THE REASON I BROUGHT UP WASHINGTON DC, IT'S NOT
LIKE FRONT ORDERED THIS, IT WAS THE WASHINGTON DC
AUTHORITIES, AND THEY CAN EASILY REVERSE COURSE AND REALIZE
IT'S NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO GO.
AND TO ANA'S POINT ABOUT LAWLESSNESS: YOU CLAIMED YOU
RESTED THIS PEOPLE ñ THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU WERE WORRIED
ABOUT LAWLESSNESS, AND RIOTING; AT THE SAME TIME YOU ENCOURAGE
LAWLESSNESS BY NOT BOTHERING TO FIND OUT WHO ACTUALLY DID
IT, WHICH WOULD BE HOW YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO ACT WITHIN THE LAW.
I'M JUST GOING TO GO A LITTLE LAWLESS BY ARRESTING
EVERYBODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, EVEN IF THEY ARE JOURNALISTS.
I MEAN, FACING A 10 YEAR SENTENCE IS NO JOKE.
$5000 FINE IF CONVICTED.
DO I THINK THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET 10 YEARS?
I DON'T THINK SO, BUT IT IS AN OUTRAGE THAT THEY ARE
FACING THAT AS WE SPEAK.
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