A CNN reporter and the crew of his cameras were arrested on live television by Los Angeles police on Monday evening while protests against the ice continued to noise the city.
Veteran National Correspondent Jason Carroll had just finished a segment from one of the areas of protest during the Laura Coates ’11 afternoon at the 11th afternoon when police officers in Riot Gear briefly inhibited it.
“I am being stopped,” Carroll can be heard saying while Coates began to make the law enforcement analyst of CNN John Miller a studio question.
Coates suddenly interrupted Miller when Carroll heard.
“Wait a second, John … I hold. I want – Jason, what’s going on? I hear you. Do I see Jason Carroll was – what happened? Jason?” she asked.
“I’m stopping, Laura,” Carroll repeated.
The CNN cameras then captured a tense exchange between Carroll and the officers during which the correspondent required clarity.
Carroll, dressed in a black -sleeved shirt and jeans, is seen with his hands behind his back while reserved by two officers.
“I’m not being arrested, accurate, officers?” Asked Carroll.
An officer’s response, though initially unclear for Carroll, was straightforward: “We are letting you go, but you can’t come back … because then if you come back, then go. Ok, please?”
Carroll admitted: “All right, thank you, officer.”
He then tried to broadcast the situation on Coates.
“If you guys can still listen to me, what happened was, I was -” he started, just to be interrupted by a sudden intervention.
“I’m Chris with the New York Times,” intervened a voice.
“We have video of you guys. If you need it later, call the New York Times.”
It is unclear who Chris is or what is his role in time.
The post has requested clarifications from the paper.
Carroll expressed his gratitude to the Times employees, saying, “Thank you, I appreciate it.” He then resumed his account for the CNN audience.
“So what happened, Laura,” he explained, “I called and the officer told me to put my hands behind my back. I said,” Am I arrested? “He said, ‘You’re being stopped.’ I left the area.
While Carroll’s audio food was suddenly cut, Coates addressed Miller for analysis.
Miller, a former chief of terror in NYPD, elaborates on the growing complexities that police face during protests, attributing that presence of “anarchist groups and agents”.
These individuals, he noted, often claim media status.
“Well, I have a blog, so I’m a press … So even though I have thrown bottles and screaming epithets, I’m not part of the protest. I want to be treated as the media,” Miller said.
A CNN spokesman told The Post: “A CNN reporting team was briefly arrested in Los Angeles while seizing events that were being revealed as police tried to clear an area during the continuous protests and police response to the city.”
The network representative added that “We are pleased that the situation resolved quickly after the reporting team presented the law enforcement with their CNN credentials.”
“CNN will continue to report the news unfolding in Los Angeles.”
The post has requested comment from LAPD.
Video footage from the protests also captured the moment the post of the post toby Canham was shot in the head with a rubber bullet.
On Sunday, an Australian News correspondent who was covering the events in LA was also shot with a rubber bullet while making a live scene report.
The Trump administration ordered thousands of National Guard troops to respond to growing protests that concentrated around federal buildings in the center of LA behind ICE raids on non -documents suspected migrants.
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