According to New York (CNN Business) When a journalist is arrested at a protest, the free and fair gathering of the news is arrested, too.
That's one of the reasons why these infringements on press freedom are relatively rare in the United States -- and why Friday's briefarrest of a CNN crewin Minneapolis was so egregious.
"Police may not prevent journalists from covering protests if the journalists are in a place where the public is allowed, and they are not disrupting or interfering... read more here