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Police arrest CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and crew on live television

CNN · 10.4M views · 2020-05-29 · 6:37

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CNN footage of correspondent Omar Jimenez and his crew being arrested live on air by police while covering protests in Minneapolis in 2020, after identifying themselves as press.

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Cited as the prime example of journalists being arrested while reporting during the 2020 protests.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2020

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jakelazaroff · 2020-12 · Reference

Many are clearly journalists, e.g. Omar Jimenez, the CNN reporter who was arrested on live TV along with his camera crew: [VIDEO]

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runako · 2020-12 · Reference

> not with a NBC news truck Reminder that a CNN journalist was arrested during a live broadcast this year: [VIDEO] I'm not sure riot declarations are supposed to allow the police to arrest journalists this way. (And if they are, we should challenge them on Constitutional grounds.)

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gpm · 2020-06 · Reference

30 seconds in this clip of the video [VIDEO] I remembered this as being stated too the cops much clearer than it actually was. Likely I was mixing what they said with what the CNN reporters said later on when they were replaying this clip.

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