‘Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern
history’: Attacks against journalists soar
during Black Lives Matter protests
Independent (UK),
by
Alex Woodward
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
4/14/2021 3:50:41 AM
At least 50 journalists in the US have been arrested during Black Lives Matter demonstrations across the US, while dozens of others have also been injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas.
The US Press Freedom Tracker has collected nearly 500 incidents from 382 reports, from the unrest in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd‘s killing by police in late May, to demonstrations in more than 70 cities across 35 states since.
At least 46 journalists were arrested between the end of May and the beginning of June, according to data collected by the organisation. Dozens of others reported injuries from law enforcement, firing “less lethal” projectiles...
Reply 1 - Posted by:
JustCause 4/14/2021 3:57:30 AM (No. 754108)
Define the word: journalist
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/14/2021 4:11:10 AM (No. 754109)
How much good does the Black Lives Matter Movement do for blacks?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 4/14/2021 4:11:41 AM (No. 754110)
I'm having trouble getting worked up about this. Anyone with a stupid cell phone camera who wants to stir up trouble with no consequences can call himself a journalist. I've seen several videos of them actually antagonizing people, especially cops.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/14/2021 5:08:53 AM (No. 754117)
...from the unrest in Minneapolis in the wake of George Floyd‘s killing by police in late May... His killing? AH! You must be referring to his suicidal overdose.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 4/14/2021 6:20:55 AM (No. 754135)
Unfortunately for the occasional journalist who actually is a neutral observer / reporter, this is a situation created entirely by their colleagues if the fourth estate who are really fifth columnists. The LEOs know that most reporters at the scene of a violent riot are not there to observe and incidentally report what is happening but to also document any police 'brutality'. Any violent action taken by LEOs will be front page news. So it is no wonder that the LEO community views reporters as part of the rioting faction and treats them accordingly.
So 'tough shiite' reporters and reporterettes, others in your vocation have made it clear whose side you are on. You are being treated according to the evidence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/14/2021 6:38:53 AM (No. 754151)
“Journalist” has been inoperative for quite some time now......Propagandist, Provocatour, or Lying Sack of Schiff are now nearer the mark.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/14/2021 6:46:12 AM (No. 754157)
Pardon me for my lack of sympathy.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HPmatt 4/14/2021 7:00:01 AM (No. 754164)
Modern Times....hahahaha from some idiot who thinks history started w the Preezy... go to Iran and ‘report the truth’....go to Malmö and ‘report the truth’....interview Charlie Hebdo dead, real reporters in Paris... You have made the bed Useful Idiot, get in it and let your Creature burn you to death in it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bazi 4/14/2021 7:04:21 AM (No. 754165)
HAH! Maybe because the "journalists" were lying about the "mostly peaceful protests".
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 4/14/2021 7:16:05 AM (No. 754172)
And why should the media be excluded or protected from the consequences of their lying and propagandizing for the Dims?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/14/2021 7:25:01 AM (No. 754177)
The media incites the riots, eggs them on, send reporters to film it all. It should not surprise them that they have also gotten some attention from the communist rioters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 4/14/2021 7:56:39 AM (No. 754203)
Well, that’s a good start.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 4/14/2021 8:19:37 AM (No. 754228)
Brainwashed Marxist Communist propagandist's.
The last time the Marxist Communist democrats practiced any semblance of civility happened during the 2nd. World War. That came to a screeching halt right after President Dwight David Eisenhower, Republican, who took over on January 20, 1953.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur - Warning of American Communism from within July 25, 1951, - May 15, 1952.
"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions," stated General Douglas MacArthur in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952
General Douglas MacArthur addressed Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951:
"I have seen since my return to my native land after an absence of many years our material progress has been little short of phenomenal.
"It is not of any external threat that I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions, these institutions which formerly we hailed as something beyond question of challenge, those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.
Foremost of these forces is that directly, or even more frequently indirectly, allied with the scourge of imperialistic Communism.
It has infiltrated into positions of public trust and responsibility, into journalism, the press, the radio and the school.
It seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings.
This evil force, with neither spiritual base nor moral standard, rallies the abnormal and subnormal elements among our citizenry and applies internal pressure against all things we hold descent and all things that we hold right the type of pressure which has caused many Christian nations abroad to fall and their own cherished freedoms to languish in the shackles of complete suppression.
As it has happened there it can happen here. Our need for patriotic fervor and religious devotion was never more impelling.
There can be no compromise with atheistic Communism, no half way in the preservation of freedom and religion. It must be all or nothing."
MacArthur warned in his Farewell Address to Congress, April 19. 1951:
"The Communist threat is a global one Under no circumstances must Formosa (Taiwan) fall under Communist control."
"Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions," stated General Douglas MacArthur in Lansing, Michigan, May 15, 1952.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/14/2021 8:20:14 AM (No. 754229)
You mean crossing the line between documenting events to participating in them came with consequences? I'll be damned.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/14/2021 8:21:44 AM (No. 754230)
They created these monsters so it’s only fitting that “journalists” should be their victims.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/14/2021 8:28:20 AM (No. 754239)
FTA: " . . . in the wake of George Floyd‘s killing by police"
When I saw that blatant lie in the intro - - I decided NOT to click on this article. Georgie was not "killed by police" - - Georgie was killed by Georgie.
Pfoooey on you - - Independent (UK)!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/14/2021 8:51:37 AM (No. 754279)
#13, IF MacArthur had ben a fighting general - a military leader instead of a publicity hog,, the U.S. could have won the Korean War and swatted down the Chicoms.
I hold General Custer in higher regard than MacArthur. At least Custer tried to win.
Therefore, I cannot attach any credibility to anything MacArthur said. He sacrificed our fledgling air assets in the Philippines, on December 12, 1941, even though Pearl Harbor had happened, and he had plenty of notice. And he led the military action against the veterans bonus march on D.C.
There should be an eternal flame of shame over his grave.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 4/14/2021 9:34:00 AM (No. 754336)
#17
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur was fired by President Truman, Democrat, because he new the only way to win in Korea was to take on Communist China. President Truman and the U.N. future Marxist Communist One World Government did not want to destroy Communist China. So. 52,260 war deaths there were wasted and China is now a worse threat to America and the free world than in 1953.
America also lost out in Vietnam because of the same enemies of freedom. So 58,220 war deaths there were wasted and China is now a worse threat to America and the free world than in 1975.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/14/2021 9:43:54 AM (No. 754351)
Forget the weak defensive tactics. Just round them up and put them on one-way ships to the African coast. The rest will soon get the point. Why the kid-glove treatment of violent domestic terrorists?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/14/2021 10:49:43 AM (No. 754448)
Send in Gunga Dan Rather with his field jacket and turban!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/14/2021 11:39:55 AM (No. 754544)
They don't want what they are actually doing reported.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
columba 4/14/2021 12:37:00 PM (No. 754647)
We already know that much of the trouble we are having is prompted by so-called "journalists". Whoever decided that we need "news" 24 hours a day and 7 days a week? It is so bad that some people actually believe that they are telling the truth.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
red1066 4/14/2021 12:58:50 PM (No. 754692)
I have no problem with this.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Aubreyesque 4/14/2021 1:14:44 PM (No. 754709)
Im going to judge them by how they voted in the last election.
Was it for Trump? Then they are my friend and deserve my support and defense.
Was it for Biden? Im bringing my coconut-oil flavored popcorn and a bull horn to egg on the protestors, pointing out the "journo-listers" for attention. I really have no sympathy for them and they are my enemy.
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OK, that's enough. All you right wing Nationalist KKK white supremacist, traitors
types leave the urnalist alone. Leave the attacks on them to the pros in BLM and ANTIFA.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/15/2021 8:43:00 AM (No. 755391)
There are no journalists. There are only propagandists.
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