The Chicago police said they didn’t need training on journalists’ rights at protests to prepare for the DNC. But their “abysmal failure” this week proves otherwise.
Officers who threaten and arrest journalists for doing their jobs should lose their own.
https://freedom.press/news/chicago-police-ignore-warnings-about-press-freedom-at-dnc-protests/
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