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"title": "Reporter arrested at land claim demonstration in Northern New York",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/reporter-arrested-at-land-claim-demonstration-in-northern-new-york/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"qrcn4\">Isaac White, a reporter for Indian Time, was arrested while covering a demonstration on New York’s Barnhart Island at the Canadian border May 21, 2024.</p><p data-block-key=\"bc6v\">The weekly newspaper <a href=\"https://www.indiantime.net/story/2024/06/13/news/indian-time-reporter-among-eight-arrested-at-barnhart-demonstration/44817.html\">reported</a> that White arrived at the island, which is owned by the New York Power Authority, after receiving a news tip. He found a small demonstration opposing a <a href=\"https://www.srmt-nsn.gov/news/2024/saint-regis-mohawk-tribe-provides-update-on-land-claim\">proposed settlement</a> of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s claims to that land.</p><p data-block-key=\"atkbk\">When state police arrived at 7:30 p.m., demonstrators were using a backhoe to excavate at the NYPA’s St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project, the Post-Standard <a href=\"https://www.syracuse.com/crime/2024/05/multiple-arrested-after-trespassing-damaging-ny-power-authority-property-in-north-country-troopers-say.html\">reported</a>. A spokesperson for the NYPA said no equipment was damaged.</p><p data-block-key=\"a5oki\">White told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker via email that when police arrived he moved closer to document their activities. He said that they issued a dispersal order but didn’t tell him where he could move to continue doing his job. When officers began arresting those present, White said he was the first detained. He identified himself as a reporter and said he was there in a professional capacity, but he was told it didn’t matter, Indian Time wrote.</p><p data-block-key=\"544rp\">“My press credentials were in my phone wallet that I wear around my neck,” White told the Tracker. “I identified myself as a reporter, and the police looked at my press credentials only after I was handcuffed.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ebo64\">White and seven demonstrators were taken to the state police barracks in Massena before being released on charges of trespassing and misdemeanor conspiracy, according to a <a href=\"https://troopers.ny.gov/news/multiple-people-arrested-after-trespassing-and-damaging-nys-power-authoritys-property\">news release</a> from the New York State Police. One of the demonstrators was also charged with second-degree criminal mischief, a felony.</p><p data-block-key=\"33jeo\">White told the Tracker that he was held in police custody for three or four hours.</p><p data-block-key=\"bip48\">According to Indian Time, White’s charging documents state he is accused of “knowingly and unlawfully agreeing with several other individuals to engage in activity which included damaging property, belonging to the New York State Power Authority, to an extent constituting a felony in the state of New York.”</p><p data-block-key=\"2jqot\">The New York State Police did not respond to requests for additional information.</p><p data-block-key=\"c2g4d\">White appeared alongside the other arrestees for arraignment on June 11, the paper <a href=\"https://www.indiantime.net/story/2024/06/13/news/arrests-on-barnhart-island-have-cases-adjourned-over-next-three-months/44815.html\">reported</a>, but the necessary paperwork had not been properly filed with the court and the hearings were adjourned. The reporter is scheduled to reappear in court on Aug. 13 at 1:30 p.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"6gva4\"><i>Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include comment and details from Isaac White.</i></p></div>",
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"title": "Mississippi outlet ordered to give confidential source information to court",
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In a June <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/mississippi-press-freedom-republicans.html\">op-ed</a> for The New York Times, Mississippi Today Editor-in-Chief Adam Ganucheau wrote that no state appellate courts have ruled on the privilege and Mississippi is one of eight states that lacks a formal shield law.</p><p data-block-key=\"9l39t\">“We hope the order from the court will lead to the establishment of reporter’s privilege for the first time in Mississippi’s history,” Ganucheau said in an email to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"4bcuv\">Ganucheau called Mississippi an outlier but added that “we hope this appeal is taken up by the Supreme Court and the justices guarantee these First Amendment protections for all Mississippi journalists. Importantly, these protections aren’t in place only for journalists; they’re in place for every citizen.”</p><p data-block-key=\"21k2o\">Mississippi Today has also filed a motion to dismiss the case.</p><p data-block-key=\"apq7p\">The lawsuit stems from characterizations of former Gov. Phil Bryant after the paper published its series “<a href=\"https://mississippitoday.org/the-backchannel/\">The Backchannel</a>.” The investigation, which won reporter Anna Wolfe the <a href=\"https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/anna-wolfe-mississippi-today-ridgeland-miss\">2023 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting</a>, detailed the misuse of $77 million in federal welfare funds when Bryant was governor, including some funneled to pet projects of his friend and former NFL quarterback Brett Favre.</p><p data-block-key=\"eniur\">Eight people were later criminally charged. Bryant, who left office in 2020, has not been charged with any crimes.</p><p data-block-key=\"2ng3u\">Bryant’s defamation suit doesn’t question the reporting in the series, but takes issue with characterizations of its findings in a 2022 midyear impact report by Mississippi Today, the paper’s Pulitzer announcement, a talk by CEO Mary Margaret White at a journalism conference, an interview Wolfe gave with a trade publication and ongoing coverage by Mississippi Today.</p><p data-block-key=\"a6da1\">As part of the suit, Bryant requested unpublished notes and confidential source information related to the series.</p><p data-block-key=\"8g98l\">The Circuit Court of Madison County ordered the paper to turn over by June 6 a log of privileged information, including confidential sources for the court to examine privately. It noted that Mississippi appellate courts had “not yet recognized a First Amendment reporter's privilege which protects the refusal to disclose the identity of confidential informants.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ecu8j\">The circuit court said that the sources were relevant because the governor must prove that the reporters either made up a source or recklessly used a source that was unreliable.</p><p data-block-key=\"3dspl\">Ganucheau said Mississippi Today turned over several documents by the June 6 deadline that the outlet’s original reporting relied on, “even though that reporting is not the basis of any of the plaintiff’s claims.” He added the statements at issue relied on previous reporting and public information, not confidential sources.</p><p data-block-key=\"epl0h\">Bryant had requested far more extensive information: all communications employees of Mississippi Today have had about him for the last two years, including “emails and text messages between Anna Wolfe and sources who were a part of her investigation,” according to court documents.</p><p data-block-key=\"68rbe\">Bryant filed an additional motion on June 11 requesting that Mississippi Today be held in contempt of court for not handing over all of the requested material, which it said was likely hundreds or thousands of documents.</p><p data-block-key=\"4lv9c\">Ganucheau and Wolfe were added as defendants to the lawsuit, which originally named Mississippi Today and White, the CEO.</p><p data-block-key=\"donon\">Bryant also requested a gag order to prevent Mississippi Today from publicly discussing the case after the paper published an <a href=\"https://mississippitoday.org/2024/06/06/mississippi-today-supreme-court-appeal/?mc_cid=eea9031523&mc_eid=2a64aafee5\">editor’s note</a> addressing the lawsuit.</p><p data-block-key=\"a71j7\">The Committee to Protect Journalists <a href=\"https://cpj.org/2024/06/pulitzer-winning-mississippi-today-appeals-order-to-turn-over-confidential-source-material/\">issued a statement</a> in support of Mississippi Today and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has offered legal advice and support, Ganucheau said.</p><p data-block-key=\"5u17p\">“We’ve been warmly embraced by journalism rights organizations around the world, which is a testament to how seriously every journalist takes threats to the rights of a free press,” Ganucheau told the Tracker.</p></div>",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ea09l\">Independent photojournalist Michael Nigro was shoved and his camera equipment damaged by a New York City police officer while documenting a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Brooklyn on May 18, 2024.</p><p data-block-key=\"4i8jm\">Brooklyn Paper <a href=\"https://www.brooklynpaper.com/groups-condemn-brutality-nakba-day-bay-ridge/\">reported</a> that the rally marking Nakba Day — which commemorates the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 — has been held in the Bay Ridge neighborhood for years without incident.</p><p data-block-key=\"9jp0k\">Nigro told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he has documented the rally six or seven times in years prior and described the demonstration as a generally family-friendly, community event. He said that the police response was markedly different this year, with officers in riot gear and from the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, a heavily armored group used for crowd control, present from the beginning.</p><p data-block-key=\"5d9os\">Shortly after protesters took to the street, Nigro said, officers made the first arrest of the day. Nigro said he filmed the detainment and had complied with orders to step back when an officer assaulted him.</p><p data-block-key=\"5vfbv\">“I didn’t see him coming,” Nigro said, “he just came over and smacked my camera. With the vibration in the camera and the sound that I heard, I thought, ‘He just broke my lens.’ Then I saw that the hood was cracked and thankfully the lens was not.”</p><p data-block-key=\"c13sh\">In <a href=\"https://twitter.com/peterhvideo/status/1792338251602079757\">footage of the incident</a> captured by another photojournalist, a commanding officer can be seen grabbing Nigro’s camera and using it to shove him back and to the side, striking the camera against another photographer in the process. As the first officer walks away, a second can be seen pushing Nigro backward.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy Chief Jesse Lance is seen targeting a photographer and forcing his camera into another photographer's face.<br>Lance seems to wander around aimlessly before returning to where he started.<br><br>Occurred in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn yesterday. <a href=\"https://t.co/1EKtkyZVCK\">pic.twitter.com/1EKtkyZVCK</a></p>— Peter Hambrecht (@peterhvideo) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/peterhvideo/status/1792338251602079757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"ea09l\">Nigro followed the commanding officer to ask him for his name and badge number, and the officer identified himself as Jesse Lance, deputy chief executive officer patrol borough Brooklyn South. Nigro told the Tracker that Lance has interfered with members of the press documenting protests multiple times in recent months, and that officers routinely obstruct photojournalists.</p><p data-block-key=\"el16u\">“The tactic of late with the NYPD and the press is to block us from covering it,” Nigro said. “They’ll stand in front of your camera and put their hands in front of it or just push you back and back. Or, the newest tactic has been taking the press and detaining them, sometimes flexy-cuffing them, and then letting them go.”</p><p data-block-key=\"bijdk\">Independent photojournalist <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-photojournalist-detained-at-pro-palestinian-rally-in-nyc/\">Josh Pacheco</a> was detained that day in the “catch-and-release” fashion Nigro described. Independent videographer <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-videographer-thrown-to-ground-arrested-at-nyc-protest/\">Sam Seligson</a> was also arrested and released the following morning on three charges. Nigro called such tactics extremely troubling.</p><p data-block-key=\"cm2qt\">“They are preventing us from doing our work and from documenting the history that is happening in front of us,” Nigro told the Tracker. “It seems that they are just looking at us as the enemy, which we’re not.”</p><p data-block-key=\"5lhud\">In the meantime, Nigro added, journalists covering pro-Palestinian demonstrations in New York are banding together to watch each others’ backs and document police aggressions against them. “There needs to be some kind of pushback and accountability because if we do not it’s only going to continue and likely get worse.”</p><p data-block-key=\"5lfd3\">The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.</p></div>",
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Why are you even arresting me?” The photojournalist was also <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-dragged-to-the-ground-arrested-at-nyc-protest/\">arrested 11 days prior</a> while covering a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, but the charges were dropped.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NOW: NYPD arrest credentialed press <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JP_OTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JP_OTG</a> while covering a protest in Brooklyn. He was also arrested just a few weeks ago covering another protest. <a href=\"https://t.co/lYoWysP4yF\">pic.twitter.com/lYoWysP4yF</a></p>— Peter Hambrecht (@peterhvideo) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/peterhvideo/status/1791964879684858299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"bmn85\">After they were handcuffed, Pacheco told the Tracker that an officer took them to the middle of the street to be loaded into a prisoner transport van.</p><p data-block-key=\"3k25m\">“A couple white shirts talked to me. The first one said, ‘Yeah, you’re press. You’re getting arrested. 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None of this is new & NONE OF THIS IS RIGHT. Bayridge is a beautiful part of Brooklyn. Nakba day, while still a protest, has historically been joyful, rambunctious-largely a celebration. I’m shocked, shaken by today’s violence. And still-</p>— Josh Pacheco (They/Them) (@JP_OTG) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JP_OTG/status/1791980809622065635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"bmn85\">The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.</p></div>",
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A separate group of protesters had marched from Union Square a mile to the campus in solidarity with the calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war and divestment from Israeli companies.</p><p data-block-key=\"25ecq\">Fedorova told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker she was on assignment for two news outlets — taking stills for the European Pressphoto Agency and video for FreedomNews.TV while covering the Union Square <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FreedomNTV/status/1787993004491387030\">march</a> and then the student <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FreedomNTV/status/1788044901764018403\">rally</a> to protect the encampment.</p><p data-block-key=\"ebj5k\">“There were reports that a police sweep of the encampment was imminent,” Fedorova said. “When there eventually was a sweep, I ran around to where the students who had been arrested would be loaded into buses and taken away. And, as has happened pretty frequently recently, people tried to block the buses from leaving and attempt to de-arrest the students.”</p><p data-block-key=\"veat\">Police then moved in to arrest everyone in the street, Fedorova said, and she remained to document the violent detention of a woman, the photographer kneeling to capture an image of the woman’s face between the legs of the officers.</p><p data-block-key=\"23buf\">In <a href=\"https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1788057078877106547\">footage</a> from Status Coup photojournalist Jon Farina, officers can be seen arresting protesters and directing everyone to get off the street or face arrest. At 1:04 in the video, Fedorova can be seen beginning to kneel and raise her camera when an officer forcefully pushes her to the ground and shouts for her to go to the edge of the street.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">🚨BREAKING: NYPD ARREST Journalists Outside Pro-Palestinian encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Police also arrested and assaulted MULTIPLE protestors.<br><br>Via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JonFarinaPhoto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonFarinaPhoto</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/2kkl5JyIeH\">pic.twitter.com/2kkl5JyIeH</a></p>— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1788057078877106547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"pv91o\">Fedorova then points her camera up at the officer, and the officer moves to grab her camera before ultimately pulling her up by her arm and behind the advancing line of police. Fedorova and Farina both verbally identified her as a journalist, and in a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/AlexKentTN/status/1788059502148833527/photo/2\">photo</a> captured by photojournalist Alex Kent, her professional camera and press credential can be clearly seen hanging around her neck.</p><p data-block-key=\"js1c\">Fedorova told the Tracker that during her arrest one of her camera lenses was dented and a lens hood lost. Her press badge was damaged both when she fell and when officers roughly tried to pull it off her.</p><p data-block-key=\"dsd2s\">A second photojournalist, independent photographer Josh Pacheco, was arrested moments before Fedorova; their arrest is documented <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-dragged-to-the-ground-arrested-at-nyc-protest/\">here</a>. Both journalists were transported to New York City Police Department headquarters at One Police Plaza, where they were processed. </p><p data-block-key=\"2behl\">Fedorova said they were released nearly four hours later, in the early morning of May 8, and informed that the arrests had been voided. She told the Tracker she doesn’t know what the charges were before they were dropped.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/JP_OTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JP_OTG</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/olgafe_images?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@olgafe_images</a> were released from jail after 2 hours. Both with marks on their wrists from cuffs being too tight. Charges were voided. <a href=\"https://t.co/e9RWAdtEdD\">pic.twitter.com/e9RWAdtEdD</a></p>— Jon Farina (@JonFarinaPhoto) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JonFarinaPhoto/status/1788111714308768169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"pv91o\">“I received zero paperwork from them. It almost seemed like they wanted to make it go away, like it never happened,” Fedorova told the Tracker, adding that the worst part was that the arrest prevented her from continuing her coverage.</p><p data-block-key=\"4kgcv\">Both journalists reported having marks on their wrists from being cuffed too tightly, and Fedorova told the Tracker that one of her hands was still numb.</p><p data-block-key=\"3pobv\">The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"9469n\">Mickey Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, told the Tracker that while voiding the charges was a good step, the journalists should not have been arrested in the first place.</p><p data-block-key=\"a5jdv\">“While the NPPA is glad that some common sense prevailed by the NYPD not charging these two photographers with any crime, we are very concerned that they are perfecting ‘catch-and-release’ to an art form,” Osterreicher said. “The fact that they took two photojournalists off the street, preventing them from making any more images or transmitting the ones they already had on a matter of extreme public concern, is very disturbing.”</p><p data-block-key=\"f8mn5\">Osterreicher added that he and other attorneys involved in a <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?case_number=1:21-cv-06610\">2021 lawsuit</a> on behalf of multiple news photographers against the NYPD for press freedom aggressions had a scheduled meeting with the city and police on May 8 to discuss the historic settlement reached in that case. The <a href=\"https://d3dv5x9lc36tse.cloudfront.net/US_District_Court_VS_Southern_District_of_New_York_466f756d74.pdf\">settlement</a> included extensive rules governing the NYPD’s interactions with journalists, and Osterreicher said they raised the issue of Fedorova and Pacheco’s arrests.</p><p data-block-key=\"7lvqa\">“From our perspective, they’re not living up to the terms of the agreement that we fought for three years to get,” he said. “We raised those issues with the city and the NYPD and we plan to have further meetings with them soon to avoid these continuing abridgments of journalists’ rights.”</p></div>",
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"title": "Photojournalist dragged to the ground, arrested at NYC protest",
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A separate group of protesters had marched from Union Square a mile to the campus in solidarity with the calls for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war and divestment from Israeli companies.</p><p data-block-key=\"2i4hu\">Pacheco arrived at FIT just as police had erected barricades to bar access to the encampment, with hundreds of officers stationed on the street, they told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"fb0vb\">“Things were relatively calm and consistent: student protesters rallying, chanting on the side. Very little confrontation except from counterprotesters that were walking by,” Pacheco said. They said that things began to escalate only after police began arresting students at the encampment and loading them into a correctional bus.</p><p data-block-key=\"3p2jk\">As some demonstrators attempted to prevent the prisoner transport vans from leaving with the detained students, Pacheco said they heard someone say, “Take it to the street,” and assumed the protesters were preparing to march.</p><p data-block-key=\"3ff67\">“I made my way to where the protesters were and, within 30 seconds of walking toward the protesters, I was grabbed by a sergeant or a lieutenant,” Pacheco said.</p><p data-block-key=\"5a6u6\">Pacheco posted <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6s0H3QOlaU/?igsh=bDJtbzNuZzc5enUw\">footage</a> to Instagram in which an officer with a bullhorn can be heard saying, “Let’s start making arrests here, guys. They’re blocking traffic, that’s it.” Officers then advance on the protesters, pushing and throwing them to the ground, while other police direct everyone to get off the street or face arrest.</p><p data-block-key=\"d2vi6\">In <a href=\"https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1788057078877106547\">footage</a> from Status Coup photojournalist Jon Farina, an officer can be seen at 0:45 pushing Pacheco backward as police detain a protester, and the photojournalist continues recording from between two parked cars.</p><p data-block-key=\"aon7h\">Seconds later, an officer wearing a white shirt — typically worn by higher-ranking officers — is then seen grabbing Pacheco by the arm and neck and pulling them into the street before forcing them onto the ground.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">🚨BREAKING: NYPD ARREST Journalists Outside Pro-Palestinian encampment at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Police also arrested and assaulted MULTIPLE protestors.<br><br>Via <a href=\"https://twitter.com/JonFarinaPhoto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JonFarinaPhoto</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/2kkl5JyIeH\">pic.twitter.com/2kkl5JyIeH</a></p>— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/StatusCoup/status/1788057078877106547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"xq3km\">Once Pacheco was on the ground, they said, officers punched and kicked them multiple times and dragged them across the ground, ripping their clothing and damaging one of their camera lenses. One of Pacheco’s lens hoods was also lost during the arrest.</p><p data-block-key=\"5cd2h\">“I kept saying that I was press. I was clearly marked. I had my press pass on me,” Pacheco told the Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"8na6i\">Pacheco added that the officers were “handsy” while arresting them, and that an officer callously looked them up and down before saying, “Male or female? Just pick one.”</p><p data-block-key=\"behms\">A second photojournalist, freelancer Olga Fedorova, was arrested moments after Pacheco; her arrest is documented <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/freelance-photojournalist-shoved-to-the-ground-arrested-at-nyc-protest/\">here</a>. Both journalists were transported to New York City Police Department headquarters at One Police Plaza, where they were processed.</p><p data-block-key=\"73ecs\">Pacheco said that both journalists were released nearly four hours later, in the early morning of May 8, and informed that the arrests had been voided. They told the Tracker that they don’t know what the charges were before they were dropped.</p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https://twitter.com/JP_OTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JP_OTG</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/olgafe_images?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@olgafe_images</a> were released from jail after 2 hours. Both with marks on their wrists from cuffs being too tight. 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Am out. <a href=\"https://t.co/uiByZkKIOd\">pic.twitter.com/uiByZkKIOd</a></p>— acatwithnews (@ACatWithNews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACatWithNews/status/1787481125692297264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"0yhd5\">Beckner-Carmitchel can clearly be seen wearing a press credential as officers place him in zip cuffs, in a <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwY8XFBe87E\">livestream</a> captured by <a href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-06/independent-journalist-observers-detained-on-ucla-campus\">prominent police critic</a> William Gude. 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