CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapolis protests [video]

Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by elil17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:35AM (#23351197)

Actually they had been filming continuously, and they had been previously told by police to stand where they were standing, and they had received no new instructions from the police since then, and there was an all-white group of reporters standing in a similar position on the other side of the police who did not get arrested. I understand the desire to come up with an explanation for what happened, I really do, but the fact of the matter is that police arrested these reporters for no reason.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by corrupt_measure on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:24PM (#23351994)

While it may be tempting to jump to a racial interpretation of the arrest, it appears that the CNN reporters were just standing in the wrong place and in the chaos of the moment were arrested.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by wtallis on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:33PM (#23352096)

> and in the chaos of the moment were arrested

What chaos? The scene shown in the video looks really calm, with one protester, several reporters, and a very large number of police standing around apparently doing nothing more than looking intimidating at that moment.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by corrupt_measure on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:39PM (#23352188)

Perhaps chaos isn't the best word. Hightened tension is more appropriate.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by colejohnson66 on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:19PM (#23357198)

Heightened tension is not an excuse to arrest someone. Police (in theory) exist to lower tension, not add to it.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by mturmon on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:41PM (#23353037)

You have just scolded the above commenter for jumping to a racial interpretation, and then jumped to an opposite conclusion yourself, on the basis of no evidence.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by elil17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:39PM (#23352182)

I hope that anyone seeing this situation and thinking, “I’m not sure how race plays into this,” will go back and learn some more about the history of race in America. I think a good starting place is the podcast “1619” which does a really good job investigating where racial problems in America came from.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.htm...

Perhaps it’s naïve of me to think people will want to learn about what it really means to be Black in America. But I think if you really listen to what history is saying and really listen to what Black people are experiencing right now it will change how you think about events like this.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by elil17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:58PM (#23352449)

Ah yes, the NYT is fake news but we should trust a Wikipedia article that is in the process of being deleted because it is fabricated.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by corrupt_measure on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:06PM (#23352546)

The New York Times appears to me and many others misguided on the issue of race.

The 1776 Wikipedia page does not appear to be slated for deletion, I'm not sure what you're talking about there.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by elil17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:31PM (#23352897)

It says it on the talk page.

When a group of white people and a group with a black person are doing the exact same thing (reporting for cable news), positioned equidistant on opposite sides of a group of police offers and one group gets arrested and the other does not, how is that not racism? It is literally a natural experiment with a single variable (race) changed.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by corrupt_measure on Friday May 29, 2020 @02:37PM (#23353823)

You're assuming that a single variable is being changed, but the far more likely explanation is that, given the high complexity of the situation, there are some other variables that you're not accounting for.

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by elil17 on Friday May 29, 2020 @07:16PM (#23356712)

What variables?

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Re:CNN reporter arrested live on air while covering Minneapo... by monocasa on Friday May 29, 2020 @12:52PM (#23352371)

The 1776 project is the epitome of the very propaganda you're talking about.

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