Roughly a year after covering protests that followed George Floyd’s murder, a Black security officer for the CNN broadcast team reporting live from Minneapolis sued the Minnesota State Patrol troopers who arrested him in an incident his lawyers call racially motivated. On May 30, 2020, Omar Jimenez, who was arrested on air a day earlier. Michael Cooper, a former Illinois trooper, being interviewed by ABC 7 Chicago in Nov. 2020. Both men are Black, and Cooper’s lawyers claim that the fact both were targeted for arrest was no accident. “The selective arresting of Black media members was...