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"title": "CBS producer shoved by police while covering protest in Washington, D.C.",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p>CBS News producer Christina Ruffini was shoved by police officers while reporting on a far-right protest in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 12, 2018.</p><p>Metropolitan Police Department officers "kettled" a group of protesters and journalists, including Ruffini, forcing them into a small, contained area with no exits. As lines of MPD officers continued to shove them backwards, the group found themselves pushed up against the side of an MPD police car.</p><p>Ruffini later tweeted a video showing the kettle.</p><p>"Guys, there's a car here," Ruffini can be heard yelling in the video. "Stop pushing! Stop pushing, you're hurting people!"</p><p>Officers then grab Ruffini and shove her next to the MPD car.</p><p>Ruffini said that she showed the officers her press badge, which identifies her as a journalist, but that did not stop them from manhandling her.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-raw_html\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In which <a href=\"https://twitter.com/DCPoliceDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DCPoliceDept</a> shoved us up against a police car, trapping and crushing people, then I showed them my press badge (which you can see in my hand) and they shoved me anyway. Most officers did a great job today. This was not great. <a href=\"https://t.co/qNOADlzzF2\">pic.twitter.com/qNOADlzzF2</a></p>— Christina Ruffini (@EenaRuffini) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1028806249788399616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p>Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill tweeted a similar video of MPD officers shoving journalists and protesters in the kettle.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-raw_html\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here’s where police unnecessarily kettled media and shoved everyone on their way out. Nbd, but if we’re getting righteous about this from afar, the only people to push me were cops. <a href=\"https://t.co/zcPWof3XuT\">pic.twitter.com/zcPWof3XuT</a></p>— Kelly Weill (@KELLYWEILL) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/KELLYWEILL/status/1028895702498328576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018</a></blockquote>\r\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></div>",
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"title": "Demonstrators damage TV journalist's camera in Charlottesville",
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"title": "Illinois State Police trooper arrests journalist for 'trespassing' at scene of car crash",
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Police later said that the crash left two cars totaled and bystanders were barely able to extricate the crash victims from the cars before they burst into flame.</p><p data-block-key=\"qc0zq\">Weaver told Freedom of the Press Foundation that he arrived at the crash site just as the last ambulance was leaving to take victims to the hospital and maintenance workers were cleaning up the area. He began filming the aftermath of the crash; some of his video footage was later included in a local TV station’s report on the crash.</p><p data-block-key=\"1f6aj\">After a maintenance worker spotted Weaver and alerted the Illinois State Police, an ISP trooper approached Weaver and arrested him. The trooper, Kyle Fletcher, was familiar with Weaver from previous incidents.</p><p data-block-key=\"6xgjb\">“I realized that this was an individual that I had spoken to before,” Fletcher wrote in a field report documenting the arrest. “I once again asked Weaver what he was doing illegally parked on the shoulder of the tollways and walking around on a road where pedestrians are forbidden. … Due to the fact that this was not the first time I had spoke[n] to Weaver about this sort of behavior he was placed under arrest for criminal trespass to property.”</p><p data-block-key=\"h0ix1\">Weaver said that Fletcher also ticketed him.</p><p data-block-key=\"lua9z\">“This trooper also charged me with three tickets,” he said. “One for stopping on the shoulder, which he considered a crime because I was not using the Tollway for its intended purpose. And also for getting out of my vehicle, and also a third one for failure to yield to emergency vehicles, which is a complete joke because I was the last one to arrive at the scene, and there were no emergency vehicles to ever have to yield to.”</p><p data-block-key=\"2jp0r\">Each ticket carries a $120 fine and requires Weaver to appear in court.</p><p data-block-key=\"p3s32\">Weaver said that after he was arrested and brought to the DuPage County, two of his fellow photojournalists bailed him and then helped him recover his impounded vehicle.</p><p data-block-key=\"yvfkk\">On Sept. 13, Weaver pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. The next court date is set for Nov. 8, at which point Weaver intends to request a trial if the charges against him have not been dropped.</p><p data-block-key=\"xsd1e\">In a statement to Freedom of the Press Foundation, a spokesperson for the Illinois State Police confirmed Weaver’s arrest:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" >\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"hgpdj\">The Illinois State Police can confirm that on August 11, 2018, Mr. David Weaver was arrested by the ISP and cited for the following offenses at the scene of a multi vehicle personal injury crash that resulted in multi vehicle fires: Criminal Trespass to Real Property, Failure to Yield to Emergency Vehicles, Stopping Parking or Standing on Roadway, and Walking Improperly on the roadway. This case remains open and ongoing in the court system, therefore we have no further comment at this time. The Illinois State Police's primary goal at the scene of a critical incident, and at all times, is the safety and well-being of all members of the public.</p></div>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"fscv2\">Weaver said that Fletcher, the ISP trooper who arrested him, has repeatedly tried to prevent him from reporting on car crashes on the Illinois State Tollway.</p><p data-block-key=\"97lw9\">“He is trying to get me involved in a case where he’s trying to make me out as a threat to the first responder community by my presence,” he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"16g80\">According to Weaver, the trouble began on Nov. 27, 2016, three days after he covered a car crash on the Illinois Tollway. Weaver said that Fletcher showed up at his house and told him that the Illinois Tollway was private property and he had to obtain a special Media ID from the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in order to film on the highway.</p><p data-block-key=\"o8udv\">Weaver claims that Fletcher then threatened him with arrest and asked him to go to an Illinois State Trooper station to “voluntarily” complete a written statement. Weaver said that he went to the station and submitted his written statement — at which point, he was fingerprinted and photographed. Weaver said that Fletcher then drove him home and told him, “I don’t want to jam you up."</p><p data-block-key=\"3mjby\">Weaver said that when he later asked the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority about obtaining the special Media ID that Fletcher had mentioned, the Highway Authority’s press secretary informed him that no such ID existed and access to emergency scenes was the responsibility of Illinois State Police, not the Highway Authority.</p><p data-block-key=\"iuhwc\">“I think the state needs to reconsider what it considers private property and how it operates and what procedures are in dealing with the press,” Weaver told Freedom of the Press Foundation. “I want to know for my own peace of mind, so that when I go to scenes on a Tollway, that my day doesn’t end with me being arrested, and my car towed and being putting into the holding cell at DuPage County Jail."</p><p data-block-key=\"ga7gk\">"I should be able to do my job as long as the conditions are safe to do so, and I was denied that," he added.</p></div>",
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Simon also said that Murray threatened him with "bodily harm."</p><p data-block-key=\"ct0m0\">Simon told the paper that he did not recognize Murray in the restaurant — “he looks so different than he used to look,” he said — and that both he and Murray asked each other, “Do you know who I am?” He said that he tried to defuse the situation by apologizing to Murray and giving him the peace sign.</p><p data-block-key=\"3x1an\">But according to Simon, Murray later elbowed him and poured water on him and his camera.</p><p data-block-key=\"e3bkw\">“I’ve never been treated like that in my life,” Simon told the MV Times.</p><p data-block-key=\"8xym5\">After the altercation, Simon called the police. 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When he spotted a police officer in civilian clothes with a badge around his neck, he said he waved and explained that he was a reporter taking photos for a story. The officer waved back as he walked to his car.</p><p data-block-key=\"15mes\">Mendez said he also noticed a uniformed MPD officer walking through the parking lot toward a police wagon. The uniformed officer did not wave back to Mendez.</p><p data-block-key=\"d3r6l\">After Mendez finished taking photos and left the lot, he saw that the police wagon was following him.</p><p data-block-key=\"55xzl\">“I drove about two blocks away,” he told Freedom of the Press Foundation. “I noticed in my rearview that there was a paddy wagon. It followed me for about four more blocks and then pulled me over. 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The article was based on a copy of the sealed plea agreement — which had been inadvertently made available to the public through the online court records database PACER — and included specific details included in the plea agreement: </p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20180714180330/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-glendale-detective-guilty-plea-20180714-story.html\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"ffngd\">According to the plea agreement, Balian accepted $2,000 to help locate someone believed to have broken into his associate’s office and stolen $100,000 worth of property.</p><p data-block-key=\"icyb9\">In March 2017, the agreement said, Balian gave information to the U.S. Marshals Services stationed at the Glendale Police Department, causing law enforcement resources to be used in an attempt to find the alleged thief.</p><p data-block-key=\"bw95n\">In June 2015, Balian overheard Glendale police officers discussing a plan to search and arrest about 22 people in a federal racketeering case targeting the Frogtown gang, which is loyal to the Mexican Mafia, the agreement said.</p><p data-block-key=\"esljz\">Balian then tipped off his associates within the Mexican Mafia, saying authorities planned to arrest Jorge Grey, a Frogtown “shotcaller” who was a top target.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20180714180330/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-glendale-detective-guilty-plea-20180714-story.html\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"9rhdn\">Archived version of "Glendale detective pleads guilty to obstruction, lying to feds about ties to organized crime" (Los Angeles Times)</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"wg9mq\">Shortly after the article was published, Balian's attorney filed an emergency motion, asking the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to issue a <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4600189-Temporary-Restraining-Order-on-Los-Angeles-Times.html\">temporary restraining order</a> to prohibit the Times from publishing details from the plea agreement. District court judge John Walter, the federal judge overseeing Balian's criminal case, quickly <a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-legal-dispute-20180714-story.html\">granted</a> the temporary restraining order. Judge Walter's order also <a href=\"https://www.popehat.com/2018/07/16/federal-judge-issues-illegitimate-prior-restraint-order-against-los-angeles-times-in-federal-criminal-case/\">directed</a> the Times to remove any articles about the plea agreement that it had already published.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4600189-Temporary-Restraining-Order-on-Los-Angeles-Times.html\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"p4y99\">IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Los Angeles Times and each of its parent companies, subsidiaries, or affiliates (collectively “the Los Angeles Times”), directly or indirectly, whether alone or in concert with others, including any officer, agent, employee, or representative of the Los Angeles Times, be and hereby are enjoined from: </p><p data-block-key=\"sf61w\"><b>Disclosing the under seal plea agreement in this case, in whole or in part, or publishing any article, piece, post, or other document whether in print or electronic format that quotes, describes, summarizes, references, relies on, or is derived in any way from the under seal plea agreement in this case and that it return forthwith any and all copies of such plea agreement in its possession to the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.</b></p><p data-block-key=\"nxq7u\">...</p><p data-block-key=\"ty958\">IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that defendant shall serve the Los Angeles Times with a copy of this order but not the <i>Ex Parte</i> Application forthwith. To the extent any article is published prior to the issuance of this order, it shall be deleted and removed forthwith.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4600189-Temporary-Restraining-Order-on-Los-Angeles-Times.html\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"zhuzj\">Temporary Restraining Order issued on July 14, 2018</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"5tax1\">At 5:15 p.m. on July 14, the Times edited its earlier article to remove certain details about the plea deal, and added a note to the bottom of <a href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-glendale-detective-guilty-plea-20180714-story.html\">the story</a>: "This story has been updated to remove references from the filed plea agreement, which was ordered sealed by a judge but publicly available Friday on the federal court’s online document database. The changes were made to comply with an order issued Saturday by a U.S. federal judge. The Times plans to challenge the order."</p><p data-block-key=\"78t36\">Times publisher Norm Pearlstine defended the Times' decision to report on the plea deal. </p><p data-block-key=\"qdtyh\">“We believe that once material is in the public record, it is proper and appropriate to publish it if it is newsworthy,” Times publisher Norm Pearlstine said in an interview with the paper.</p><p data-block-key=\"6l99l\">The temporary restraining order will remain in effect until Walter rules on whether or not to grant Balian a preliminary injunction — which is similar to a temporary restraining order, but more permanent — against the Times.</p><p data-block-key=\"k446f\">On July 16, the Times filed <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4600188-Notice-of-Los-Angeles-Times-appeal-of-TRO.html\">an emergency petition</a> for a writ of mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which has jurisdiction over federal district courts in California. 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Although courts have the power to enter sealing orders when common law and constitutional standards are met ... once information is made public, nearly 90 years of constitutional law stand in the way of using prior restraints to prevent a newspaper from communicating the information to its readers."</p></div>",
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"title": "Massachusetts reporter arrested for threatening Walpole Times reporter",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p>Reporter Amy Zuckerman was arrested at her home in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, on July 7, 2018, on a warrant charging her with making terroristic threats in emails to a reporter at the Walpole Times the day before.</p><p>The Walpole Times, based in Walpole, Massachusetts, is owned by GateHouse Media. Its reporter, who was unnamed, had asked Zuckerman to remove him from a mailing list multiple times.</p><p>“The specific threats were mentioned shooting a firearm through the window of the Walpole Times while people were there,” Walpole Police Chief John Carmichael <a href=\"https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/07/09/woman-threat-shooting-walpole-times-journalist/\">told WBZ-TV CBS Boston</a> in July. “We figure that we had to give some credibility to it, especially in light of what just happened in Maryland, we took it seriously, the people at Walpole Times took it seriously.”</p><p>Zuckerman’s arrest came one week after Jarrod Ramos was charged with five counts of first-degree murder <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/man-upset-newspaper-coverage-shoots-and-kills-multiple-journalists-capital-gazette-newsroom/\">for the shooting deaths of Capital Gazette employees</a> in Annapolis, Maryland, on June 28.</p><p>Anne Brennan, Regional Director of News and Operations for GateHouse Media New England’s West Unit, explained her concern in a statement to the paper:</p><p>“The email contained what we believe to be a very serious threat of physical harm. The nature of the threat was very specific. Oftentimes as a journalist you receive threats, people get angry at you, but they’re not specific about what they’re going to do to you, sometimes they say they will cancel their subscription or something of that nature. This was a very specific threat of physical harm that not only put the journalist who received it in jeopardy, but the other people in that office as well, which is why we’re taking it very seriously.”</p><p>The same day of the Walpole Times incident, the Daily Hampshire Gazette filed trespassing charges against Zuckerman after she was asked to leave due to her behavior, <a href=\"https://www.amherstbulletin.com/Amy-Zuckerman-held-until-dangerousness-hearing-Wednesday-18756684\">according to the Amherst Bulletin</a>. Afterward, Zuckerman sent an email to the Gazette, which referenced the Capital Gazette shooting and was also threatening, <a href=\"https://www.telegram.com/news/20180717/shutesbury-woman-accused-of-threatening-to-shoot-walpole-reporter-is-ruled-dangerous\">according to MetroWest Daily News</a>.</p><p>Zuckerman, 64, pleaded not guilty to the Walpole Times incident during a July District Court arraignment hearing. She was found to be a danger to the public and ordered to be held without bail, WHDH 7 News, <a href=\"https://whdh.com/news/no-bail-for-ex-journalist-charged-with-threatening-violent-attack-on-walpole-times/\">a Boston television station, reported</a>. On Aug. 6, Zuckerman was released, then arrested the following day after violating conditions of that release.</p><p>During a hearing at the Norfolk Superior Court on Aug. 13, the charges against Zuckerman <a href=\"https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20180813/charges-reduced-against-woman-in-journalist-threat-case\">were downgraded</a> from making terroristic threats, a felony, to threatening to commit a crime, a misdemeanor.</p><p>In December, Zuckerman turned herself into Belchertown District Court after a warrant was issued for her arrest following a second probation violation. On Jan. 3, 2019, Zuckerman was arrested for her third probation violation, attempting to contact members of the media. She was released without bail.</p><p>A spokesperson for GateHouse Media originally said the Walpole reporters and editors would return following the incident with heightened security, but MetroWest Daily News <a href=\"https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20190102/newspaper-threats-suspect-under-investigation-for-violation\">later reported that the office has since closed</a>, and the reporter who was allegedly threatened has left the company.</p><p>The threat case is ongoing. MetroWest Daily News <a href=\"https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20190116/amy-zuckerman-undergoing-competency-evaluation\">reported that Zuckerman is currently undergoing evaluation</a> after her lawyer filed a motion for an assessment of her competency to stand trial. Zuckerman is scheduled to appear in court for a status hearing this week.</p></div>",
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"title": "Ohio newspapers receive threatening letters containing unknown substances",
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"title": "Denver police officers arrest journalist for taking photos",
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He said I didn't because HIPAA.”</p><p data-block-key=\"h09fj\">Greene said that one of the officers, whom she identified as James Brooks, tried to intimidate her physically and stood close in front of her in an attempt to block her camera. When she then began taking photographs of Brooks, the officer responded with physical force.</p><p data-block-key=\"tgy8f\">Greene later wrote <a href=\"https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/07/06/greene-denver-police-handcuff-reporter-james-brooks/\">a first-person account</a> of what happened for the Independent:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/07/06/greene-denver-police-handcuff-reporter-james-brooks/\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"0o30i\">As it turns out, Officer Brooks didn’t like having his picture taken. After accusing me of blocking the door of an ambulance that had been called to the scene – toward which he had prodded me during our encounter – and saying something about me obstructing officers, he grabbed me and twisted my arm in ways that arms aren’t supposed to move. At some point in the blur, either he or Officer Adam Paulsen, badge No. 08049, locked one or maybe two pair of handcuffs on my wrists, tightly, and pushed me toward a nearby police car by grabbing my arms hard enough – and with a painful upward thrust – that I told them to stop hurting me. Their response: That I was hurting myself by resisting.</p><p data-block-key=\"67l8p\">But I wasn’t resisting. Not even close.</p><p data-block-key=\"xvj7d\">I had heard from my work reporting on several excessive force cases troublesome accounts of police injuring arrestees, yet claiming they injured themselves. But to hear it first-hand, uttered obviously for the benefit of whoever might some day review the body-camera footage, was infuriating.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/07/06/greene-denver-police-handcuff-reporter-james-brooks/\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"ssgyt\">Greene: That time a Denver cop made up excuses to handcuff a reporter (Colorado Independent)</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"t3swl\">Greene wrote that the officers detained her in a police car for about 10 minutes before releasing her, “apparently at the urging of someone on the other end of [Brooks’] cellphone.”</p><p data-block-key=\"18sxg\">The Denver Police Department opened an internal investigation into the incident. On Aug. 23, Greene <a href=\"https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/08/23/greene-no-charges-denver-cop-handcuffing/\">reported</a> that she received a call from Denver district attorney Beth McGann, who told Greene that her office could not bring charges against officer Brooks for either assault or false imprisonment.</p><p data-block-key=\"tx8cl\">On Aug. 28, the Denver Police Department finally released <a href=\"https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2018/08/28/denver-police-editor-handcuff-first-amendment/\">video footage</a> of the incident taken from the body cameras worn by officers Paulsen and Brooks.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-video\">\n\n<figure class=\"inline-media full-width\">\n <div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" class=\"responsive-object\">\n <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/q2Ih5abBptg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div>\n\n \n <figcaption class=\"inline-media__caption\">\n \n <p data-block-key=\"stig4\">Footage from a body camera worn by Denver police officer Adam Paulsen shows him and officer James Brooks telling Colorado Independent editor Susan Greene to "act like a lady" as they handcuff and detain her on July 5, 2018.</p>\n \n \n <p>Colorado Independent</p>\n \n </figcaption>\n \n</figure>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-video\">\n\n<figure class=\"inline-media full-width\">\n <div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" class=\"responsive-object\">\n <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/BlO8PXtwzOw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div>\n\n \n <figcaption class=\"inline-media__caption\">\n \n <p data-block-key=\"95twy\">Footage from a body camera worn by Denver police officer James Brooks shows him and officer Adam Paulsen handcuffing and detaining Susan Greene, editor of the Colorado Independent, for taking photos on a public sidewalk on July 5, 2018.</p>\n \n \n <p>Colorado Independent</p>\n \n </figcaption>\n \n</figure>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"l94od\">“This is protected by HIPAA,” Paulsen tells Greene in the video. “You can’t record.”</p><p data-block-key=\"yneml\">“There’s also a First Amendment,” Greene responds. “Have you heard of it?”</p><p data-block-key=\"zii9b\">“That doesn’t supersede HIPAA,” Paulsen says. “Step away, or you’ll be arrested for interference."</p><p data-block-key=\"raisw\">Brooks then grabs Greene and twists her arm behind her back, and Paulsen hands him handcuffs.</p><p data-block-key=\"as87m\">“Stand up straight, let’s act like a lady,” Paulsen tells Greene as he handcuffs her.</p><p data-block-key=\"hasam\">“Are you fucking kidding me?” Greene asks. “Act like a lady?”</p><p data-block-key=\"vcqyy\">“Nope,” Brooks says, as Paulsen finishes locking the cuffs. “There you go. Now you can go to jail.”</p><p data-block-key=\"np2kd\">“Stop, you’re hurting me!” Greene yells as the officers forcibly escort her to a police car.</p><p data-block-key=\"00c33\">“No, we’re not,” one of the officers says. “Then walk, walk normal, stop resisting.”</p></div>",
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"title": "Independent journalist Matt Lee forcibly removed from UN, stripped of press credentials",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"i5m14\">Matt Lee — an independent journalist who covers the United Nations — was forcibly removed by security from the UN headquarters in New York City on July 3, 2018. The UN’s Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit later withdrew his press credentials, denying him access to the UN building.</p><p data-block-key=\"k7mc8\">Lee extensively and aggressively covers the United Nations on his website, Inner City Press.</p><p data-block-key=\"qauku\">Until 2016, he was accredited as a “resident correspondent” at the UN, with his own office in the building. As a resident correspondent, he was allowed to stay in the building after-hours and on weekends and was not required to undergo a security check every time he entered the UN headquarters building.</p><p data-block-key=\"hvv8g\">But on Feb. 19, 2016, Lee’s press accreditation was <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/this-journalist-has-kicked-off-a-shitstorm-of-drama-inside-t\">downgraded</a> from “resident correspondent” to “non-resident correspondent” after he livestreamed a private meeting of the United Nations Correspondents Association. There is no love lost between Lee and UNCA. Lee joined UNCA shortly after he began covering the UN in 2005, but left the association on bad terms in 2012 after reporting on a potential conflict of interest involving UNCA’s then-president.</p><p data-block-key=\"ihyo2\">The UNCA meeting was held on Jan. 29, 2016, in the UN media briefing room, which is open to all accredited journalists at the United Nations. Although UNCA wanted to use the briefing room to hold a members-only meeting, Lee insisted that he had the right to stay in the briefing room and even to livestream the meeting. UNCA complained to UN staff, who eventually cajoled Lee to leave.</p><p data-block-key=\"s7vrb\">In the aftermath of that incident, the UN stripped Lee of his “resident correspondent” status, making him a non-resident correspondent. Lee lost his office and his carte blanche access to the UN headquarters building.</p><p data-block-key=\"1pplk\">According to the <a href=\"http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/guidelines.shtml\">United Nations Media Guidelines</a>, non-resident correspondents are generally not allowed to be in the UN building after 7 p.m.:</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/guidelines.shtml\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"qgm61\">Non-Resident Correspondents can access UNHQ through the Visitors' Entrance on 46th Street and 1st Avenue between 0800–1900 hours from Monday through Friday. Non-resident Correspondents only have access to UNHQ on weekends or after hours accompanied by a resident correspondent or when a meeting is advised as taking place. Entry will be allowed two hours prior to the start of the meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting, the non-Resident correspondent must exit the premises within an hour, unless accompanied by a resident correspondent.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/guidelines.shtml\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"9dyc2\">UN Media Guidelines</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"skq1p\">On July 3, 2018, Lee was in the UN building after 7 p.m., having stayed past curfew to cover an all-day UN budget meeting that continued late into the night. The meeting was not open to the public or press, so Lee had “staked out” the meeting, waiting outside of the room to speak with attendees as they entered or exited the meeting room. Around 10 p.m., he conducted a brief interview with Tommo Monthé, a Cameroonian diplomat who chairs the budget committee, and then headed over to a café area to type up his interview notes.</p><p data-block-key=\"5pwg0\">According to Lee, he was typing up his interview notes in the café when two UN security guards approached him and <a href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/05/un-roughs-up-ejects-bans-reporter-from-headquarters-caught-on-tape.html\">grabbed</a> him, ordering him to leave the premises. Lee refused, insisting that he had the right to be in the building because he was a journalist covering a meeting. The <a href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/matthew-lee-un-attacks-reporter-journalist-inner-city-press-a8445081.html\">altercation</a> with the guards left Lee with a ripped shirt and an injured arm.</p><p data-block-key=\"vrfba\">As Lee was being escorted outside, he spoke to Christian Saunders, an assistant secretary general. Lee livestreamed his conversation with Saunders and later uploaded portions of it to YouTube.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-video\">\n\n<figure class=\"inline-media right\">\n <div style=\"padding-bottom: 56.25%;\" class=\"responsive-object\">\n <iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/9wGTrc24YKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\n</div>\n\n \n <figcaption class=\"inline-media__caption\">\n \n <p data-block-key=\"idi04\">Independent journalist Matt Lee of Inner City Press briefly speaks with Cameroonian diplomat Tommo Monthé. He later complains to UN assistant secretary general Christian Saunders after being accosted by UN security guards and ordered to leave the building.</p>\n \n \n <p>Inner City Press/Matt Lee</p>\n \n </figcaption>\n \n</figure>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"y8cnn\">“I’m a journalist covering a six billion dollar budget, and these guys tore my shirt, tore my pass right in front of you,” Lee says to Saunders in the video. “You’re an assistant secretary general. Is that OK with you?”</p><p data-block-key=\"59ki0\">“The budget hearings are the propriety of member states, and it’s a closed budget hearing,” Saunders says.</p><p data-block-key=\"lim27\">Lee refuses to leave, arguing that he has the right as a journalist to stand outside of the budget meeting and interview diplomats, while Saunders repeatedly tells Lee that he needs to obey the security guards’ orders to leave.</p><p data-block-key=\"bmg33\">Lee, who appears to be very shaken up by the altercation, repeatedly refers to the security guards as “thugs” and criticizes them for using physical force against him.</p><p data-block-key=\"6lpsd\">“Seriously! I was sitting there typing,” he says to one of the security guards as they escort him out of the building. “You really have to push my neck, right? Something is wrong with you. You should be fired. If you were in the NYPD, you would be fired right now because I’m not resisting. You had no right to touch my computer. You had no right to tear my shirt!”</p><p data-block-key=\"9ufiq\">On July 4, the day after Lee was removed from the building, he filed a police report against the UN for assault.</p><p data-block-key=\"rkj2f\">On July 5, the UN suspended his press credentials, pending the conclusion of an investigation into his behavior. Without UN press credentials, Lee was not allowed entrance into the UN headquarters building. Instead, he had to cover the UN from a bus stop across the street.</p><p data-block-key=\"mx7y6\">Although the investigation initially focused on the July 3 incident, but it soon expanded into a more general review of Lee’s behavior and professionalism. The review considered numerous complaints made about Lee’s behavior by UN member states, UN staff, and Lee’s fellow UN correspondents. Lee was not given any opportunity to respond to any of the complaints against him.</p><p data-block-key=\"zr42q\">On Aug. 17, the UN notified Lee in a <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4776012-Lee-M-17-Aug-18.html\">letter</a> that it had concluded its review and decided to withdraw his press accreditation.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-blockquote\">\n\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\" cite=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4776012-Lee-M-17-Aug-18.html\">\n\t<div class=\"rich-text\"><p data-block-key=\"v8dze\">This review has indicated repeated breaches of the [UN Media] Guidelines, including the following recorded breaches of the specific provisions of the Guidelines stated above:</p><p data-block-key=\"eu4cy\">(i) presence on United Nations premises outside authorized time periods as stipulated in the Guidelines;</p><p data-block-key=\"22ekb\">(ii) presence in locations of the United Nations premises not authorized by the Guidelines;</p><p data-block-key=\"2mji1\">(iii) conduct towards Member State diplomats and United Nations staff, including recording and live broadcasting without consent or [Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit] approval and without due regard to privacy, in breach of the Guidelines; and</p><p data-block-key=\"hi6tm\">(iv) conduct on United Nations premises towards other accredited United Nations correspondents and media outlets, including videos/live broadcasts using profanities and derogatory assertions towards them without due regard to their dignity, privacy and integrity, in breach of the Guidelines.</p><p data-block-key=\"45n3d\">In addition, following several of the breaches of the Guidelines referenced above, you refused to comply with directions issued by United Nations security officers.</p></div>\n\t\n\t\t<cite class=\"blockquote__citation\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"blockquote__link text-link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4776012-Lee-M-17-Aug-18.html\">\n\t\t\t\t<p data-block-key=\"vol1k\">Letter to Matt Lee withdrawing press accreditation</p>\n\t\t\t</a>\n\t\t</cite>\n\t\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"j82fy\">Lee <a href=\"http://www.innercitypress.com/unguterres1smalebansicp081718.html\">believes</a> that the UN leadership is <a href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hayesbrown/inner-city-press-ban-united-nations-matthew-lee\">retaliating</a> against him because he has reported on their apparent conflicts of interest and corruption. The UN, for its part, says that it objects only to Lee’s behavior, not his reporting.</p><p data-block-key=\"kgbqa\">“Just like the White House, access is not a right, it’s a privilege,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric <a href=\"https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/reporter-expelled-un.php\">told</a> the Columbia Journalism Review. “None of this is happening now because of what he writes. … He creates an atmosphere of incivility within our working environment.”</p><p data-block-key=\"wod30\">But it is difficult to separate Lee’s behavior from his reporting. He is an aggressive reporter, in every sense of the word. He is dedicated to exposing the corruption and conflicts of interest that he believes permeate the UN, and he has little patience for those who refuse to talk to him. Although his breathless posts on Inner City Press and his commentary-filled livestreams may often seem hyperbolic and conspiratorial, Lee has done important investigative journalism on some of the unsavory influence-peddling that underlies diplomacy at the UN.</p><p data-block-key=\"d66u4\">In particular, he has reported on the UN’s close relationships with unsavory regimes in places like Cameroon, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.</p><p data-block-key=\"agprj\">Recently, Lee has reported that the UN leadership has soft-pedaled criticism of Cameroon’s human rights abuses at the same time that it has tried to win budgetary concessions from the Cameroonian diplomat who chairs the UN budget committee. That is the reason that he was covering the budget meeting late at night on July 3, which led to him being forcibly escorted out of the building.</p><p data-block-key=\"tv4z2\">Lee has suggested that the UN roughed him up and expelled him from the UN building on July 3 as part of a conspiracy to stop him from reporting on the UN’s relationship with Cameroon. It’s more likely that Lee was ordered to leave the building because it was after 7 p.m. and he was a non-resident correspondent. Still, whether intentional or not, the UN's actions have had the effect of making it more difficult for Lee to report on conflicts of interest at the UN.</p></div>",
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