Ferguson police arrest reporters amid rage over Michael Brown shooting

Ferguson police arrest reporters amid rage over Michael Brown shooting

‘Two reporters were arrested and teargas was fired at demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, five nights after an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by an officer from the town’s predominantly white police force.
The Washington Post condemned the detention of its journalist, Wesley Lowery, as “illegal” and an “assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news”. The Huffington Post attacked the arrest of its reporter, Ryan J Reilly, as “militant aggression”. Reilly said that the “police resembled soldiers more than officers”.
The reporters were only freed, apparently, after a journalist from the Los Angeles Times called the Ferguson police chief.’
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