Over the past two years, 200 journalists have been arrested or detained while doing their jobs. There are complaints that police have shut them down, brutalized them and destroyed their equipment.
Over the next two days, activists descended upon the neighborhood, some chanting, some cheering, others fanning out to offer assistance or organize resistance.
In the video, it's easy to recognize Sinco as a news photographer: He holds a camera. A camera bag is slung around his neck and chest. The rubber bullet grazes the side of Sinco's leg. Sinco can be seen limping away. As the evening wore on, the freelance photographer got caught up in a kettling, which is what happens when police surround and detain people en masse. Monterrosa flashed his press pass and eased out of detention.
"It was a classic example of the cops being upset that this group of people was not listening to what they were saying," Monterrosa tells NPR."Everybody, everybody points to Echo Park now, to reference how bad things have gotten."Kate Cagle, a reporter for the local all-news channel Spectrum News 1, says she had expected the police to let her do her job that night in Echo Park.
Officers instead detained Cagle for more than an hour, according to a later police review; for part of that time, her hands were zip-tied behind her back. James Queally, Reporter For The Los Angeles Times, And Lexis-Olivier Ray, Reporter For La Taco: Detained By Police Police had detained Queally once before, while he was covering an anti-Donald Trump protest in LA in 2016. He says he showed his press card to senior officers."They let me out, because they probably thought better of arresting aNot at Echo Park. Police zip-tied Queally's hands and left him that way for more than an hour. As he had five years earlier, Queally said he told a sergeant that he was a reporter.
He says he has never applied for an LAPD-issued press pass. It's not required, either by law or police procedures, for reporters who cover law enforcement. Now, stop to consider the challenges confronting the LAPD by March 2021 as it encountered the press at Echo Park."However noble their aims might be, when they get in the face of police, they're cursing them out," says the' Queally of many protesters. Sometimes, he says, such interactions become even more intense:"They're insulting them on a personal level. They're [making] comments about officers' weight.
Capt. Stacy Spell says recent protests have occurred against the backdrop of the pandemic and allegations of police misconduct nationwide, as well as in Los Angeles. "There were tensions upon tensions," Spell tells NPR. Tensions, he says, that can test police officers' patience. "Arguably you could have five attorneys look at one law and have different interpretations," Spell says."It's particularly more challenging for officers who are on the ground and are dealing with the situation as it's volatile and ongoing."
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