In exceedingly rare case, Iowa journalist faces charges from reporting on summer protests Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Journalists suffer attacks, arrests while covering George Floyd protests across nation
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The trial of a Des Moines Register reporter who was arrested covering racial justice protests last summer is slated to begin next week in what experts said is a rare criminal prosecution of a journalist on assignment in the USA.
Andrea Sahouri faces charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts and is set to stand trial starting Monday.
At least 126 journalists were arrested or detained in 2020, but only 13 still face charges, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. The group s managing editor, Kirstin McCudden, said it s surprising and unknown why Sahouri s charges remain.
In exceedingly rare case, Iowa journalist faces charges from reporting on summer protests Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Journalists suffer attacks, arrests while covering George Floyd protests across nation
Replay Video UP NEXT
The trial of a Des Moines Register reporter who was arrested covering racial justice protests last summer is slated to begin next week in what experts said is a rare criminal prosecution of a journalist on assignment in the USA.
Andrea Sahouri faces charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts and is set to stand trial starting Monday.
At least 126 journalists were arrested or detained in 2020, but only 13 still face charges, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. The group s managing editor, Kirstin McCudden, said it s surprising and unknown why Sahouri s charges remain.
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They were arrested while covering protests last year. They’re still in legal limbo.
On June 1, as protests intensified across the US following the police killing of George Floyd, Richard Cummings, a freelance photojournalist in Worcester, Massachusetts, saw dozens of police officers assembling in riot gear, even though the day’s main demonstration had wound down. He started to film them and take pictures. “Worcester’s never had anything with riot gear before,” Cummings told me recently. “It looks like the end of the world. It was crazy.” A few officers, Cummings said, were cracking jokes, including about shooting members of the public with their pepper guns; eventually, they noticed Cummings, who turned away. “I didn’t want to pry into anything, or get anyone angry,” he said. A different officer had given Cummings permission to stand nearby after he identified himself as a journalist, but after that officer moved on, the cops that Cummings had been filming tackle