Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Indy Journalists Detained/Arrested...

...at the site of the Republican National Convention in Minnesota last Sept.

DAYS BEFORE the beginning of the convention, members of the independent video group -- I witness -- were aggressively detained by St. Paul police, without a warrant.

During a street demonstration, Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar was roughly arrested, shoved into the pavement and bloodies, as she yelled out to the officer that she was PRESS, PRESS.

When Democracy Now! producer Amy Goodman went to inquire about two arrested producers, Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Amy herself was arrested...relatively peaceably. Amy was clearly a press person, credentials around her neck, being followed by a camera crew.

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