"HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?At least 6 journalists are facing up to 10 years in prison for covering protests. The journalists were among 230 people detained in the anti-Trump demonstrations, during which protesters smashed the glass of commercial buildings and lit a limousine on fire. The National Lawyers’ Guild accused Washington DC’s metropolitan police department of having “indiscriminately targeted people for arrest en masse based on location alone” and said they unlawfully used teargas and other weapons. Reports on the arrests of 5 of the 6 journalists contain identical language alleging that “numerous crimes were occurring in police presence”. You can watch the violence in the protest here. Note that in these protest clips there are a handful of of people doing violent things at certain points, but everybody else is just protesting the way you would imagine normal Americans would."
At www.dailykos.com
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