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>>laurex+(OP)
I can imagine animosity from the leadership, for example classifying most journalists as "fake news", contributing to violence from the front line against them.

>>linsom+c3
That, and the journalists are literally there to record evidence of their abuse. Police don't like it too much when you record evidence of them, say, beating a peaceful protester, or forcing a weapon into the hands of someone already pinned to the ground.

>>chadla+04
Where have you seen cops forcing weapons into the hands of someone on the ground? I haven't seen that.

Definitely seen excessive use of force against seemingly peaceful protesters, but context is everything, and a 10 second snippet does not tell the full story of the interactions between that protester and that cop for the 45 minutes leading up to those 10 seconds.

I tend to reserve my judgement on those types of videos, since cops have been also taking a beating in the last few days with bricks, rocks, water bottles, etc... thrown at them off camera or before those clips start, where the convenient "editing" is done to portray the cops as the "bad guys" when often they have spent the last hour being insulted, assaulted and injured before they decide to move in with force on that "peaceful" protester...

>>imperi+N5
In Atlanta, our excessive force on Saturday evening didn't literally force a weapon into someone's hands, but several officers have now been charged, and one of the discovery items was common post police incident reports of a weapon, even though no body cam footage mentions a weapon and no weapon was found.

It's a case of officers committing perjury as to the events that occurred to figuratively put a weapon into the scene.

The DAs slides https://twitter.com/wsbtv/status/1267843835889156097/photo/1