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| Over several days, NY cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers.A majority of the city’s working reporters do not possess police passes. Levitt is a veteran reporter who writes the prodigiously well-sourced NYPD Confidential. “The police want to accredit as few reporters as possible, and they make it exceedingly hard for nonmainstream reporters to get press passes,” he said Levitt has tried to renew his pass for a year. “Needless to say,” he noted, “they are resisting.” There is another problem: a police pass has become a ticket for a quick removal. Colin Moynihan stood on that darkened square last Tuesday morning when a police spokesman shouted, “Who has press credentials?”Many reporters and photographers dutifully raised their hands. With that, the police removed the “credentialed' reporters.. |
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