While covering the demonstrations – and the outside proportion of the Trump administration that is – in Los Angeles on Monday, the national CNN correspondent, Jason Carroll, was briefly owned by LAPD live in the air without any apparent reason.
At some point in the live cover of the network, Carroll could be heard explaining who he is at the officers with his hands behind his back. Finally, an officer said, “We let you go. You can’t come back. If you come back, you will be stopped. ”
This seems at least to be a violation of a California law in 2022 which specifically protects the rights of journalists to cover demonstrations in the police closed by the police.
Look at this moment below:
Carroll explained later: “I was heading for the officer, I tried to explain who I was, identified with whom I was.
Carroll said he had asked, “Am I arrested, they said,” No, you are not stopped, you are detained. “”
CNN later said that two cameras operators had been arrested, although their status is not known at the moment.
Other journalists covering demonstrations in Los Angeles were injured by law implementation measures. The situation remembers the demonstrations of George Floyd in 2020 which presented several high -level incidents of police officers attacking journalists. One of these attacks has resulted in a regulation of $ 1 million.
