Police across California have threatened journalists with arrests for covering evictions of homeless encampments.
It’s unclear why — journalists aren’t interfering with the evictions. But they are documenting them, and clearly officers don’t want that.
https://freedom.press/news/california-officials-must-let-journalists-cover-encampment-sweeps/
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