Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28

Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by AuryGlenz on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:50PM (#23395530)

I certainly don’t think the police cars in NYC going through those pedestrians - the first example on the page - is a good example.

People crowded around the vehicles and starting throwing things at them. While I would expect police to have more restraint/less fear than they did, that wasn’t the police starting violence. I would expect almost anyone to have the same reaction they did.

There was another NYC incident that people were up in arms about without context and it turns out one of the police had been hit in the head with a brick.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by staticassertion on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:40PM (#23396668)

Two different police vans drove up to a barricade and there were virtually no people behind them. Where do you think they were going? Why do you think they drove into the barrier to begin with? Why could they not back up?

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by AuryGlenz on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @09:29PM (#23398698)

The barricade was put by the protestors in front of them, and they were apparently responding to a call.

Yes, they should have backed up. My point is that they were attacked first, nothing else. It was kind of a play stupid games scenario - if you do that to someone chances are they’re going to freak out and at best be unpredictable.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by staticassertion on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:20PM (#23398997)

They weren't attacked first.

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by loco5niner on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:14PM (#23405090)

They were. Check out the video. You can clearly see the drivers window is broken, things are being thrown at them left and right, windshield is broken, then the next cop car shows up and people surround it and start punching the windows and windshield.

https://www.insider.com/nypd-cruisers-ram-down-protesters-vi...

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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by wetmore on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:12PM (#23395787)

There is clearly a lot of space behind them when they drive through the crowd.

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