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Letter details CNN journalist s arrest experience during Daunte Wright protests
Media outlets sent a letter to officials following a phone conference about the mistreatment of the press over the weekend.
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A CNN producer was detained for hours and asked if she spoke English while covering protests in Brooklyn Center last week, according to an April 17 letter, signed by several media outlets, sent to Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials.
CNN producer Carolyn Sung, an Asian American, was arrested April 13 by State Troopers while she was trying to leave the area after officials issued a dispersal order, the letter says. The troopers grabbed Sung by her backpack and threw her to the ground, zip-tying her hands behind her back.
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Takeaways from Eckert s reporting:
Minnesota Department of Corrections prisons were poised for failure even before the pandemic struck. The prison population was nearing capacity, leaving little room for distancing or quarantine, and many facilities had poor ventilation.
Still, the DOC failed to innovate. They decided not to add outdoor tents for quarantining inmates or correctional officers due to security concerns, even though prisons across the country found ways to do so.
The department was especially ill-prepared for the second wave that swept across the state in November, even after observing the surge infect populations in other areas of the country.
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