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NATO Summit: Journalists Arrested, Injured Covering Protests (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
By Jack Mirkinson
The Huffington Post, May 21, 2012
As thousands of anti-NATO protesters met thousands of police officers in the streets, photographers found themselves repeated targets of the CPD.
On Sunday, Getty photographer Scott Olson was bloodied after being hit with a police baton. A picture of Olson with blood streaming from his head rocketed around the Internet. The National Press Photographers Association also highlighted the arrest of Joshua Lott, a freelance photographer with Getty.
Tracey Pollock, a photographer with the Minnesota-based outfit The UpTake, posted video on Saturday that showed police waving their bicycles around to keep protesters back. At the end of the video, a police officer appears to shove Pollock's camera out of control. A report on the site said that the officer proceeded to push her over some bicycles, and that she was bruised as a result.
Another photographer, Paul Weiskel, posted video that showed an officer forcefully shoving a bicycle into his stomach.
NBC Chicago reported on Monday that a group of independent journalists had also been detained at 2 AM by police officers. In the video, police can be heard telling the group to show them their "f---ing hands." Some of the reporters were handcuffed, and their hard drives and cameras were smashed.
Click here for more coverage of journalists at the NATO summit.
Here's website that covers arrests of journalists at Occupy Protests, http://storify.com/jcstearns/tracking-journalist-arrests-at-occupy-protests-aro.
The corporate media covered the Chicago Police stopping some livestream independent media reporters.For more on this see WeAreChange.org.
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