CNN reporter, crew arrested on live TV

[mystery-ak]

CNN reporter, crew arrested on live TV
By Joe Concha - 05/29/20 07:09 AM EDT

Minnesota state police on Friday arrested CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his camera crew during a live report on the network's morning program "New Day."

"You're under arrest," one officer said in the middle of the report on the protests that have erupted in Minneapolis.

"OK, do you mind telling me why I'm under arrest? Why am I under arrest, sir?” Jimenez can be heard saying


"You're arresting him live on CNN. We told you before we're with CNN," one member of the CNN crew could be heard saying off-camera while the footage of the arrest rolled.

more w/video
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/500075-cnn-reporter-crew-arrested-on-live-tv

[mystery-ak]

Minnesota governor 'deeply apologizes' to CNN president after network crew arrested
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/500080-minnesota-governor-deeply-apologizes-to-cnn-president-after-network-crew

[aligncare]

The on-scene news crew should never have been arrested. However, CNN’s news editors and on-air hosts in studio should be detained for incitement to riot, for pitting groups against each other and for pandering in their get-out-the-black-vote effort in an election year.

[PeteS in CA]

Zero sympathy from me. If, as seems to be the case, the officers were dispersing the crowds and in that context ordered the CNN types to move along, their failure to obey was arrogant defiance of a legal order. The First Amendment does not give reporters a right to interfere with or complicate police officers who are trying to quell or prevent a riot.

[skeeter]

Zero sympathy from me. If, as seems to be the case, the officers were dispersing the crowds and in that context ordered the CNN types to move along, their failure to obey was arrogant defiance of a legal order. The First Amendment does not give reporters a right to interfere with or complicate police officers who are trying to quell or prevent a riot.

The cops were just removing the crew from being an incentive to the rioters, which is what CNN provides - incentives to riot.

[mystery-ak]

Minnesota governor 'deeply apologizes' to CNN president after network crew arrested
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/500080-minnesota-governor-deeply-apologizes-to-cnn-president-after-network-crew

[EdinVA]

The on-scene news crew should never have been arrested. However, CNN’s news editors and on-air hosts in studio should be detained for incitement to riot, for pitting groups against each other and for pandering in their get-out-the-black-vote effort in an election year.

They wanted to be arrested... gives them street cred and makes the cops look bad..