'Not acceptable': USA TODAY Network reporter covering George Floyd protest detained in Delaware
DOVER, Del. – A staff photographer/reporter for the USA TODAY Network was briefly jailed by Delaware State Police on Tuesday night while covering a protest near the state's capital.
His camera is turned upside down and Lamar can be heard screaming,"I'm with the press!" multiple times as police placed him on the ground. He is later heard saying that he can't breathe. In a Wednesday statement about the incident, Dover police said the officer who confronted Lamar did not know Lamar was a journalist and acted out of a concern for"public and officer safety" after seeing Lamar hunting through his backpack for an unknown object. The statement references drone video of the encounter and says Lamar was not wearing press credentials before the incident.
"We have seen police arrest and attack journalists across the country at recent protests when the journalists were simply doing their jobs and complying with the law," she said."We have also seen reports suggesting that police may be targeting black journalists in particular."“Reporters have a fundamental right to cover the demonstrations we’re seeing in Delaware and across our country,” Carney said in a statement to USA TODAY.
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