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## Video: Ferguson Police Arrest Reporters, Fire Tear Gas At Media

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_Published 2014-08-14. It wasn't just citizens arrested Wednesday. Police in the St. Louis suburb had run-ins with media and arrested two reporters covering Michael Brown’s death, the arrests and bookings into jail happening without the Ferguson police chief's knowledge._


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## Transcript

Another night of unrest in Ferguson after the police shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown. [ NOISE ]. It wasn't just citizens arrested Wednesday. Police in the St. Louis suburb had runins with the media, and arrested two reporters. The arrests and bookings into jail apparently happening without the Ferguson Police Chiefs' knowledge. Let's go. You can move. Let's go. Move. Washington Post reporter Wesley Laury took that video at a McDonald's near protests scene just before his arrest Wednesday. Stop videotaping. Let's grab our stuff and go. Since 18- year- old Brown's death, Ferguson has become the staging area of nightly protests and violence.

With protestors taking on the mantra, hands up, don't shoot. Looting followed protests early in the week. Members of the national media descended on the mostly black suburb after witnesses said Brown was shot in cold blood Saturday, while police say the teen scuffled with a. Still unnamed officer, and reached for that officer's weapon. It appears police used aggression on at least two other media outlets, attempting to document the protests over Brown's killing. St. Louis's NBC affiliate, KSDK documented both incidents. In the first, a station photographer says he was standing in the street, attempting to photograph a protester's arrest, when officers hit his camera with a beanbag round.

The station also got shots of police firing tear gas at an Al Jazeera TV crew, forcing them to leave. You can later see officers taking down the network's lights and tilting the camera toward the ground. Holy [ BLEEP ] See? they're media too The Washington Post released a statement following Lowery's arrest. Also reporting Lowery was slammed against a soda machine as he was cuffed. That behavior was wholly unwarranted and an assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news. The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous. Missouri governor Jay Nixon planned to go to Ferguson Thursday and admonished law enforcement Wednesday night.

Tweeting, switching in Ferguson does not represent who we are. Must keep the peace, while safeguarding the rights of citizens and the press.

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