Excessive force against reporters during the Black Lives Matter protests has become routine. We need to ask ourselves why

Excessive force against reporters during the Black Lives Matter protests has become routine. The Independent's Andrew Buncombe is just one example

detailing his own arrest and treatment in covering the protests against the police killings of Black people is a microcosm of both what we have witnessed in the policing of these protests nationally and the absurdity of protest-related arrests for minor infractions during the time of Covid-19.

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