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Journalists Demand Police Protect Reporters at George Floyd Protests

Journalists Demand Police Protect Reporters at George Floyd Protests
Associated Press videojournalist Robert Bumsted reminds a police officer that the press are considered “essential workers" and are allowed to be on the streets despite a curfew, in New York City on June 2, 2020.Wong Maye-E/AP Photo
Janita Kan
Writer
6/4/2020|Updated: 6/4/2020

Journalists are urging state and law enforcement officials to prevent attacks on the press, following reports of reporters being shot at, pepper-sprayed, manhandled, and arrested while covering the George Floyd protests.

Reporter groups and individual journalists are taking action to demand that police officers stop targeting members of the press, who are credentialed and identifiable, and to hold officers accountable for any alleged misconduct.

Janita Kan
Janita Kan
Writer
Janita Kan is a former reporter for The Epoch Times.
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