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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 Cantú; 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: 2) by dry on Friday January 27 2017, @07:40AM
There were huge protests about the Iraqi war, barely covered by the mainstream press. There were huge protests after the 2008 crash, at first not covered by the mainstream press and then trivialized. Generally protests are no longer covered until they grow so big they can't be kept hidden and the authorities have got better and better at keeping them out of mainstream knowledge or trivializing them. Agents provocateurs have been around for hundreds of years at least, new things like free speech zones have been thrown in and the mainstream press has been concentrated to be controlled by a few elites.