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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"w1y0k\">A member of the Portland-based press collective <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist?lang=en\">45th Absurdist Brigade</a>, who requested anonymity because they fear harassment from far-right groups, was shoved by pro-Donald Trump demonstrators while covering a rally in Salem, Oregon, on Nov. 7, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"aha1z\">The journalist was pushed while covering one of the “Stop the Steal” rallies held around the country to promote President Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.</p><p data-block-key=\"zqe1x\">In the wake of the election being called for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that morning, about 200 people gathered outside the Oregon Capitol in the afternoon of Nov. 7. Some of the protesters appeared to be affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right group, journalists told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Several other journalists <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/november-journalists-harassed-threatened-while-covering-election-and-social-justice-protests/\">documented</a> harassing, threatening interactions with pro-Trump supporters while covering the Salem rally that day. Members of far-right groups have <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?search=Proud+Boys\">repeatedly</a> attacked journalists in recent years.</p><p data-block-key=\"ttcfy\">Around 12:50 p.m. the member of the 45th Absurdist Brigade was crossing a street near the capitol building when a group of protesters started harassing them. The journalist was reporting with a partner at the time, and said both were pushed.</p><p data-block-key=\"aa0ml\">Video of the <a href=\"https://twitter.com/45thabsurdist/status/1325178696706134016\">incident</a> posted on the 45th Absurdist Brigade Twitter account shows one of the pro-Trump demonstrators shoving the person filming. Another protester can be heard saying not to touch the journalist. The demonstrators can also be heard yelling “fake press” multiple times.</p><p data-block-key=\"iiulk\">Garrison Davis, an independent Portland-based reporter, captured the incident from across the street in a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie/status/1325178474789699585\">video</a> posted on Twitter. “Right-Wing demonstrators/Proud Boys harassed and assaulted members of the press,” tweeted Davis, who can also be seen <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/november-journalists-harassed-threatened-while-covering-election-and-social-justice-protests/\">getting harassed</a> in the video.</p></div>",
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"title": "Trump supporters repeatedly shove photojournalist during Phoenix rally challenging election results",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/trump-supporters-repeatedly-shove-photojournalist-during-phoenix-rally-challenging-election-results/",
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"title": "Photographer shoved by group of pro-Trump demonstrators in Salem, Oregon",
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The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">documenting assaults, arrests and other incidents</a> involving journalists covering protests across the country.</p><p data-block-key=\"j684c\">At around 8 p.m., Supriyadi arrived at a demonstration at Arbor Lodge Park in North Portland, where protesters had gathered to call for cuts to the Portland Police Bureau’s budget.</p><p data-block-key=\"vijmb\">Protesters first marched to the home of Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan, who had voted against cutting the police budget, and <a href=\"https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2020/11/06/portland-protesters-vandalized-commissioner-dan-ryans-house-after-he-voted-against-an-18-million-cut-to-the-police-budget/\">vandalized</a> his property. 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CPJ is a founding partner of the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"adx52\">At approximately 7:30 p.m., Los Angeles Police officers arrived on motorcycles and declared the gathering an unlawful assembly, according to Twitter posts <a href=\"https://twitter.com/VPS_Reports/status/1324191499945308163\">by Singh</a> and <a href=\"https://twitter.com/emilyytayylor/status/1324191500872249345\">other</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACatWithNews/status/1324191297528233984\">journalists</a> present.</p><p data-block-key=\"ugrom\">According to a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/VPS_Reports/status/1324217037195862016\">tweet</a> posted by Singh, officers then hemmed in the crowd and the two videographers using a police maneuver called <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalists-covering-protests-us-risk-getting-caught-police-kettling-tactic/\">kettling</a>.</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/ACatWithNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@acatwithnews</a> and I were arrested tonight while documenting a protest. We were kettled and given no escape route. LAPD specifically targeted us for being journalists who were filming what occurred. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/election2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#election2020</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreedomOfThePress?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreedomOfThePress</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/G7JscEGcVk\">pic.twitter.com/G7JscEGcVk</a></p>— Vishal P Singh (@VPS_Reports) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/VPS_Reports/status/1324217037195862016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"lutyy\">At the beginning of the video in Singh’s tweet, officers can be seen placing Beckner-Carmitchel in zip-tie cuffs and leading him behind the police line. Multiple officers then point at Singh moments before they move in to arrest him.</p><p data-block-key=\"a7s7q\">Singh <a href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-04/lapd-detain-cite-two-videographers-after-declaring-downtown-protest-unlawful\">told the Los Angeles Times</a> that he believes he and Beckner-Carmitchel were targeted for arrest because they were recording and acting as press.</p><p data-block-key=\"gwlk0\">“They very clearly just looked for the people with the cameras who are there the most and just grabbed me,” Singh said. “As I was livestreaming, I saw multiple officers pointing me out.”</p><p data-block-key=\"md9nm\">The Tracker has documented Beckner-Carmitchel’s arrest <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/independent-videographer-arrested-during-los-angeles-protest/\">here</a>. At least two other journalists <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?date_lower=2020-11-04&date_upper=2020-11-04&city=Los+Angeles&categories=Arrest%2FCriminal+Charge\">were detained in the kettle</a> but released without being processed.</p><p data-block-key=\"5khyp\">Singh described himself to CPJ as a “citizen journalist,” and noted that both the bullet-proof vest and helmet he was wearing were labeled “PRESS.” These markings are visible in another video of his arrest <a href=\"https://twitter.com/desertborder/status/1324196358002155520\">posted by an observer</a>. Singh also said he identified himself to police as a member of the news media before he was handcuffed.</p><p data-block-key=\"9hif8\">Singh told the Tracker that both he and Beckner-Carmitchel were cited with failure to disperse — a misdemeanor — and released approximately two hours later with orders to appear in court on March 9, 2021.</p><p data-block-key=\"ogyqe\">If convicted, Singh could face up to six months imprisonment and a fine of up to $1,000, according to California’s <a href=\"https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/penal-code/409/#:~:text=Penal%20Code%20409%20PC%20is,fine%20of%20up%20to%20%241000.00.\">penal code</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"c5jqa\">When asked for comment about the arrests, Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson Capt. 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"title": "Independent videographer arrested during Los Angeles protest",
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Officers then began hemming in the crowd and multiple journalists using a police maneuver called <a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalists-covering-protests-us-risk-getting-caught-police-kettling-tactic/\">kettling</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"s77ff\">“I asked the police where there was a ‘First Amendment Zone,’ as they hadn’t announced one,” Beckner-Carmitchel said, referring to the media staging areas the Los Angeles Police Department have been setting up during protests in recent months.</p><p data-block-key=\"6vqaa\">The officer directed him to the sidewalk and stairs leading up into the square. Beckner-Carmitchel tweeted that while in that press area, officers advanced forward through the intersection and he moved with them to continue his coverage. 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"title": "Videographer cited for being in roadway during LA protest",
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Along with a legal observer from <a href=\"https://twitter.com/NLG_LosAngeles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NLG_LosAngeles</a> during what began as a celebration of Black Lives.<a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/dtla?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dtla</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionNight?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElectionNight</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/2020Election?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2020Election</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/blm?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blm</a> <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/STAPLESCenter?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#STAPLESCenter</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/gISuAu5PUT\">pic.twitter.com/gISuAu5PUT</a></p>— Sean Carmitchel (@ACatWithNews) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACatWithNews/status/1323941258574716929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"t8y06\"><a href=\"https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/journalists-covering-protests-us-risk-getting-caught-police-kettling-tactic/\">Kettling</a> is a police maneuver by which officers hem in protesters from all sides to prevent anyone from dispersing and is often followed with arrests or citations.</p><p data-block-key=\"o0hsv\">In a video Beckner-Carmitchel posted on Twitter, a woman can be heard calling out to police a few yards away, “We are press and National Lawyers Guild!” <a href=\"https://www.nlg.org/legal-observer-appreciation-week-2018/\">Legal observers</a> from the National Lawyers Guild regularly attend protests across the country — identifiable by their lime green hats — in order to monitor police conduct.</p><p data-block-key=\"3lokb\">Beckner-Carmitchel told the Tracker that though he identified himself as a member of the press and was standing on the sidewalk, he was cuffed and issued a citation that states his violation was “pedestrian on the road.”</p><p data-block-key=\"70lhj\">“Everyone was detained one by one, cuffed, cited and then released,” he said.</p><p data-block-key=\"gwdt0\">Beckner-Carmitchel said that once the citations were issued, everyone was allowed to leave the kettle. He estimated that they were detained for an hour and a half and released around 9:30 p.m.</p><p data-block-key=\"n6qvz\">Shortly before midnight, Beckner-Carmitchel <a href=\"https://twitter.com/ACatWithNews/status/1323877102924439552\">posted another video</a>, noting, “They are threatening to arrest me. AGAIN- I was already cited today.”</p><p data-block-key=\"wv328\">In a recent <a href=\"https://twitter.com/SamBraslow/status/1324246898438414344\">internal memo</a> shared by Beverly Hills Courier reporter Samuel Braslow, the LAPD explicitly stated that members of the press — regardless of whether they have media credentials — have a right to document protests.</p><p data-block-key=\"bv2op\">“The intent of this message is to remind supervisors and line personnel that the Department WILL recognize individuals who self-identify as media representatives and will NOT require specific media credentials,” the memo from Deputy Chief Dominic Choi reads.</p><p data-block-key=\"jfjo2\">“The inability to produce identification does not preclude an individual from acting as a member of the media,” the memo says in boldface type.</p><p data-block-key=\"2jzxr\">The Los Angeles Police Department did not respond to an email requesting comment.</p><p data-block-key=\"a2ap4\">Beckner-Carmitchel was detained by LAPD officers in another law enforcement kettle the following night, Nov. 4, alongside at least three other journalists, and was arrested on charges of failure to disperse. 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"title": "Seattle police shove reporter filming arrest during election night protest",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"qrgnt\">Shauna Sowersby, a freelance reporter in Seattle, told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that she was pushed off the sidewalk by a police officer while attempting to film an arrest during an election night protest in the city.</p><p data-block-key=\"vfj6w\">Protests were held across the county on and around Nov. 3, 2020, Election Day in the United States. Sowersby began covering <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/election-night-protests-in-seattle-more-arrests-and-continued-calls-for-racial-justice/\">protests in Seattle</a> at around 6:45 p.m. on election night. The journalist, who said she wasn’t reporting for a particular news outlet at the time, said two separate protest groups — an election-related group and a Black Lives Matter group — had joined together, and she was following those focused on the elections. The Seattle Police Department issued dispersal orders and made at least eight arrests during the protest, according to <a href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/election-night-protests-in-seattle-more-arrests-and-continued-calls-for-racial-justice/\">The Seattle Times</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"pd57d\">Sowersby, whose work has been published in <a href=\"https://crosscut.com/author/shauna-sowersby\">Crosscut</a>, an online news service focused on the Pacific Northwest, and The Idaho Statesman, posted on Twitter throughout the evening. Her tweets showed dozens of bicycle cops and at least one armored vehicle following protesters.</p><p data-block-key=\"enhnv\">At 11:56 p.m., Sowersby <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1323851701825069056\">tweeted</a> a video with the caption: “SPD bike officers now rushing protestors and press. Cop behind me almost went out of his way to shove me off the sidewalk. LRAD then tells protestors they are here to support everyone’s right to protest.<a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/seattleprotest?src=hashtag_click\"> #seattleprotest</a>”</p><p data-block-key=\"9p6p1\"></p></div>\n<div class=\"block-tweet\"><div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n <div>\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SPD bike officers now rushing protestors and press. Cop behind me almost went out of his way to shove me off the sidewalk. LRAD then tells protestors they are here to support everyone’s right to protest. <a href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/seattleprotest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#seattleprotest</a> <a href=\"https://t.co/sQk7rz434C\">pic.twitter.com/sQk7rz434C</a></p>— Shauna Sowersby (@Shauna_Sowersby) <a href=\"https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1323851701825069056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script>\n\n</div>\n\n</div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"5zerx\">Sowersby was attempting to film an arrest using her phone when a police officer “just barrelled through me” from behind, she told the Tracker in a phone interview two days later. Sowersby spent the summer reporting on protests against police brutality in Seattle and Portland, Oregon; in Portland, press stayed on the sidewalk, she said, so she did the same thing in Seattle. The officer shoved her for a “good four to five seconds,” she estimates.</p><p data-block-key=\"jxfw5\">“I was shocked, it took me by surprise,” Sowersby said. “My friend tried to take a video of it happening [and] says it looked like he was going out of his way to push me. [The police] were barrelling through the press on the sidewalk.”</p><p data-block-key=\"v5i3z\">At the time she was shoved, Sowersby had “Press” marked on her body, including on the bulletproof vest she was wearing. She was not wearing physical press credentials.</p><p data-block-key=\"o4s8n\">Sowersby said she doesn’t believe she was targeted as a member of the press, but did not report it to the police because incidents of police aggression against her while reporting on protests since the summer “have happened so many times at this point it doesn’t even seem like it’s worth the effort.”</p><p data-block-key=\"ratkd\">The Seattle Police Department did not respond to a phone message requesting comment.</p></div>",
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"title": "Journalist accosted by person in ‘black bloc’ during Election Day protest in DC",
"url": "https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/journalist-accosted-by-person-in-black-bloc-during-election-day-protest-in-dc/",
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"body": "<div class=\"block-rich_text\"><p data-block-key=\"q4arc\">Freelance journalist Eric Thomas was pursued and threatened by an unidentified individual and had his phone knocked from his hand while he covered election night demonstrations in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 3, 2020.</p><p data-block-key=\"qks37\">At 10:53 p.m., Thomas <a href=\"https://twitter.com/justericthomas/status/1323835679130963973?s=20\">posted a video</a> to his Twitter account showing an individual in head-to-toe black — a technique for evading identification known as black bloc — walking toward the journalist as he filmed the interaction with his smartphone.</p><p data-block-key=\"hp55m\">The person was part of a group of about 50 or 60 people in black bloc who were gathered at Thomas Circle in downtown Washington in preparation to march through city streets.</p><p data-block-key=\"ekmdj\">“They got very agitated very quickly,” Thomas told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.</p><p data-block-key=\"xvrl2\">The person shown accosting Thomas <a href=\"https://twitter.com/justericthomas/status/1323836459560898561?s=20\">was also videoed</a> trying to snatch a phone from the hand of another man at the scene.</p><p data-block-key=\"34h5j\">“We asked to stop filming,” the assailant can be heard saying in Thomas’s video. “So stop filming.”</p><p data-block-key=\"d8ch8\">The individual then reaches toward Thomas, whose work has been featured on television stations ABC 7 New York and NY1, and the video goes dark for a few seconds.</p><p data-block-key=\"piofk\">“Walk away. Walk away or it gets worse,” the individual orders repeatedly before the video ends.</p><p data-block-key=\"hpmpx\">Thomas told the Tracker that the person knocked his phone out of his hands but that it didn’t damage his equipment. He said he displayed New York City Police Department-issued press credentials during the exchange.</p><p data-block-key=\"67akr\">“Close call with #antifa security as they chase me out of the protest and threaten me numerous times,” Thomas tweeted with his video.</p><p data-block-key=\"1j44p\">In footage Thomas posted with a second tweet, the same person can be seen approaching other journalists and ordering them to leave, and appears to take another swing at Thomas as he backs away.</p><p data-block-key=\"57lxs\">“Give me one excuse, give me one excuse,” the person can be heard saying to Thomas.</p><p data-block-key=\"cc1ot\">Ford Fischer, editor-in-chief of the online media outlet News2Share, <a href=\"https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1324174598796120065?s=20\">captured video of Thomas</a> backpedalling while the person approached him. Telewizja Polska, a Polish network, also posted a <a href=\"https://twitter.com/tvp_info/status/1323889970336178178\">video of the confrontation</a>.</p><p data-block-key=\"jnol9\">Thomas is seen walking backwards toward a District of Columbia police vehicle.</p><p data-block-key=\"0gjcj\">Thomas said that an officer exited the vehicle and that he told the officer about the assault, but that the officer took no action.</p><p data-block-key=\"ygj73\">“It was actually pretty shocking to see that,” Thomas said. “I was pretty taken aback that the cops didn’t do anything.”</p><p data-block-key=\"0vbkl\">A spokesperson for D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department said the department couldn’t corroborate Thomas’ version of events.</p><p data-block-key=\"6terk\">The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is documenting several hundred incidents of journalists being assaulted, arrested, struck by crowd-control ammunition or tear gas, or having their equipment damaged while covering these protests across the country. Find <a href=\"/blog/blm-and-unprecedented-aggressions-against-media/\">these incidents here</a>.</p></div>",
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