Journalists Arrested, Assaulted While Covering Protests
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Some reporters covering recent protests have become part of the police brutality story.
Some reporters covering protests following the death of George Floyd have become part of the police brutality story. The Freedom of the Press Foundation has been tracking those attacks and found that police are responsible for 80% of the hundreds of assaults on journalists.
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Journalists Arrested, Assaulted While Covering Protests
Clip: 6/9/2020 | 9m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Some reporters covering protests following the death of George Floyd have become part of the police brutality story. The Freedom of the Press Foundation has been tracking those attacks and found that police are responsible for 80% of the hundreds of assaults on journalists.
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