Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and Huffington Post’ Ryan J. Reilly were arrested in Ferguson for umm, reporting. The reporters are a McDonald’s restaurant, where Lowery even claims he was slammed into a soda machine by the cops. I’ll say this for the Ferguson police, they are NOT handling this tense situation very well at all. They are even reportedly telling reporters to provide IDs. That sounds more like Russia than it does America. Workers at the McDonald’s were told to leave by police. Of course, these two reporters are from two far left race baiting media outlets. If their story is true, this is unacceptable, but there may be a lot more to this than we realize. Take it with a grain of salt at this point. You’ll also notice all the tanks, armored vehicles and cops in riot gear. Why the hell don’t we have this kind of police presence on the southern border to stop the invaders from Central America an Mexico?
From the Washington Post and Wesley Lowery:
Update video: Here is the so called ‘arrest’ video of WaPo’s Wesley Lowery. Get a load of the smug attitude when the cop says to move and Lowery says ‘I’m working on it.’ Now, I’m starting to see why these two idiots got arrested tonight.
| Video: Washington Post hack Wesley Lowery told to leave by cops at McDonald’s. |
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Wesley Lowery, a reporter for The Washington Post who has been reporting on the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., was detained Wednesday evening by police in Ferguson.
He and other reporters were working in a McDonald’s in Ferguson when about half a dozen police officers came into the restaurant, Lowery said. Some officers were in regular uniforms, while others were dressed in riot gear and carrying assault weapons.
“It was tense,” Lowery said via telephone from the police station on Wednesday night. “I’ve been afraid several times while reporting on the ground here in Ferguson.”
Lowery has been reporting on the situation in the city outside St. Louis following the death of Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by police over the weekend.
Patrons working in the McDonald’s, which reporters had been using as a staging area near demonstrations, were ordered to leave, Lowery said. When the journalist said they were working members of the media, the police told them that was fine, but they couldn’t guarantee their safety.
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| Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery and HuffPoo reporter Ryan J. Reilly arrested in Ferguson |
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The Huffington Post’s Ryan J. Reilly and the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery were arrested Wednesday evening while covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri after the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a police officer last week. The journalists were released unharmed, but their detentions highlighted the town’s ramped up police presence, which has left numerous residents injured by rubber bullets, pepper spray and tear gas during protests held every night after Brown’s death.
SWAT officers roughed up the reporters inside a McDonald’s, where both journalists were working. Reilly snapped a photo, prompting cops to request his identification.
“The officer in question, who I repeatedly later asked for his name, grabbed my things and shoved them into my bag,” said Reilly, who appeared on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” shortly after his release to recount the arrest. “He used his finger to put a pressure point on my neck.”
“They essentially acted as a military force. It was incredible,” Reilly said. “The worst part was he slammed my head against the glass purposefully on the way out of McDonald’s and then sarcastically apologized for it.”