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Sahouri, a Des Moines Register reporter, was pepper-sprayed and arrested by a police officer while reporting on a clash between protesters and police outside a shopping mall.
The Backstory: A reporter arrested while covering a protest faces trial Monday. Here s why you should care. Nicole Carroll, USA TODAY
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Over the summer, six USA TODAY Network journalists were taken into police custody while doing their jobs, reporting from various racial justice protests. Three were jailed. They yelled, I m press, I m press, as they were tackled.Forced to the ground. Pepper sprayed.Handcuffed.
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I m USA TODAY editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll, and this is The Backstory, insights into our biggest stories of the week. If you d like to get The Backstory in your inbox every week, sign up here.
Over the summer, six USA TODAY Network journalists were taken into police custody while doing their jobs, reporting from various racial justice protests. Three were jailed. They yelled, I m press, I m press, as they were tackled.Forced to the ground. Pepper sprayed.Handcuffed.
One of them,
Andrea Sahouri, is going to trial Monday. The Des Moines Register reporter, eyes still burning from pepper spray, spoke about her arrest on video as she sat in the back of the police van last May.