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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-this-is-freedom? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @02:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @02:40PM (#459467)

    Thanks for that.

    COINTELPRO is effective. It's damned effective. And it's easy as shit. The most effective part is that even trying to make people aware that yes, there really are people who will do this shit, no it's not just being paranoid, just gets you labeled a paranoid nut. Getting video evidence is the only defense against COINTELPRO tactics.

    With video evidence, some people might be willing to say, ok, well, this time there were people acting in bad faith. But next time they'll totally take everything at face value and tell you you're a paranoid nut all over again.

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