Snopes reports
Six journalists could spend up to 10 years in prison after being arrested during protests against President Donald Trump's inauguration.
The Guardian identified the journalists as freelancer Aaron CantĂș; Vocativ senior producer Evan Engel; Jack Keller, producer for the online documentary Story of America; independent journalists Matt Hopard and Shay Horse; and RT America reporter Alex Rubinstein.
The group was charged under a District of Columbia statute penalizing "every person who willfully incited or urged others to engage" in a riot causing more than $5,000 in property damage with the potential 10-year prison sentence and a fine of up to $25,000. More than 200 people in total were arrested the day of the 20 January 2017 inauguration; they were reportedly arraigned the following day and will be back in court in February and March.
[...] Another independent journalist and documentarian, Tim Pool, said on Twitter that he and two NBC News journalists were also arrested during the 20 January 2017 demonstrations but released without charges. Pool said that a supervising officer told him "no less than three times" that they were under arrest. NBC News has not responded to our request for comment regarding Pool's account.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @01:41AM
Picture the people of the USA as water in a glass. Add a drop of pee, and it still tastes fine. Keep adding though, and soon enough you have a drink that isn't water.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @03:04AM
One drop is enough for me! Here you have Americans, a nation of tolerant liberal freedom-loving people, and you add one drop of nazi racism and it sours the whole thing. Nope, ain't gonna drink no racist water, no siree! Take that shit back to Bratbarf where you got it from, you scum of a rightwing Nazi! Go, before we all punch you in your frog-lapel pin wearing face!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @04:10AM
It looks like we'll have to pass an enabling act. You'll blame conservatives, but it'll be you who pushed them too far. Your unwillingness to cooperate in preserving American culture means that things get ugly. Nobody likes this. Conservatives especially hate messing with how government functions, but American culture is a valuable culture and it is ours. We won't give it up, even if we have to get ugly.
Really, if you don't like American culture, you should go somewhere more to your liking. That would avoid violence.
In the end, liberals will not win. It'll come down to a fight between conservative Americans and conservative muslims. Probably the muslims win, but who knows? The loser of those two will die trying.