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Independent Journalist Now Faces 70 Years in Prison After Inauguration Mass Arrest
Alexei Wood live-streamed his every move and utterance to Facebook. Now he's one of the last journalists to face charges.
By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer | May 1, 2017, at 6:02 p.m.
Shattered glass litters the sidewalk after a Bank of America was targeted by anti-Trump protesters downtown. (Brett Ziegler for USN&WR)
“You are all going to jail,” a police officer shouted after being shown press credentials on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington. A different officer poked a reporter with a baton when he asked to leave.
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“The information presented was two-fold,” Stecklow says. “Initially, proof of prior work as journalist. It was documented that these individuals had attended other activities of interest, livestreamed and photographed such activities, and sold, or had these images posted on line for sale with a photo agency.”
Then, Stecklow says, “prosecutors performed their own due diligence to confirm that these journalists were in fact acting as journalists on January 20, documenting the activities and not organizing. Seemingly, this may have turned out different if the citizen journalist had somehow organized a carpool of activists and citizen journalists to travel together to D.C. “
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/independent-journalist-now-faces-70-years-in-prison-after-inauguration-mass-arrest
If you're going to have severe laws on the books you better be very careful how they are applied.
Alexei Wood live-streamed his every move and utterance to Facebook. Now he's one of the last journalists to face charges.
By Steven Nelson, Staff Writer | May 1, 2017, at 6:02 p.m.
Shattered glass litters the sidewalk after a Bank of America was targeted by anti-Trump protesters downtown. (Brett Ziegler for USN&WR)
“You are all going to jail,” a police officer shouted after being shown press credentials on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington. A different officer poked a reporter with a baton when he asked to leave.
[...]
“The information presented was two-fold,” Stecklow says. “Initially, proof of prior work as journalist. It was documented that these individuals had attended other activities of interest, livestreamed and photographed such activities, and sold, or had these images posted on line for sale with a photo agency.”
Then, Stecklow says, “prosecutors performed their own due diligence to confirm that these journalists were in fact acting as journalists on January 20, documenting the activities and not organizing. Seemingly, this may have turned out different if the citizen journalist had somehow organized a carpool of activists and citizen journalists to travel together to D.C. “
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-05-01/independent-journalist-now-faces-70-years-in-prison-after-inauguration-mass-arrest
If you're going to have severe laws on the books you better be very careful how they are applied.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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