Livestreaming and suppressing coverage
2014-08-18 18:15:36.004962+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
How Volunteer-Run Argus Radio Broadcast Ferguson Protests Live To The World. What's most disturbing about the Ferguson situation, with police apparently attempting to deliberately rile up a population and provoke violence, is that they're also attempting to suppress press coverage of the situation. Argus Radio's Mustafa Hussein was told to turn off his live-streaming camera, and...
Police on Wednesday night also cracked down hard on the press, on several occasions trying to prevent journalists from recording their actions. Police arrested The Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly and The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery, and objected to the reporters recording them or asking for their names and badge numbers. Vice’s Alice Speri said police asked if she wanted to get shot after she photographed an officer. Police also fired tear gas at reporters from Al Jazeera America; when the journalists dispersed, the police began dismantling the TV crew's equipment.