VIDEO HIGHLIGHT THREAD: "You're not gonna make a highlight out of this," a United States Capitol Police Officer told me today, as I filmed four activists be arrested from a publicly accessible area the police had not closed off.
"If you're gonna film there, you need to be up there," he said to me specifically, making it clear that the order to move was only based on my videography.
"This area's closed off right now," he claimed, while the area remained open to public foot traffic before, during, and after this exchange.
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THREAD. This is one of the more remarkable stories I have seen in my time studying state violence and working in law. But it's also an exercise in propaganda. And it's unbelievable how terrible the U.S. media coverage is. One thing in particular is important to see.