{"id":46686,"date":"2011-10-04T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=46686"},"modified":"2011-10-04T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:43:02","slug":"reporters-win-landmark-settlement-over-2008-rnc-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/reporters-win-landmark-settlement-over-2008-rnc-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed_show_v2\/300\/2011\/10\/4\/story\/press_freedom_victory_democracy_now_wins\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just over three years ago, Amy Goodman, host of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a>, and two of its producers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/10\/4\/press_freedom_victory_democracy_now_wins\">were violently arrested while covering the police crackdown on peaceful protests<\/a> outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. They were wearing their press credentials, which the Secret Service ripped from their necks. Last year the journalists filed a suit against the Minneapolis and St. Paul Police Departments, the Ramsey County Sheriff and Secret Service personnel. Yesterday they announced that they have won their settlement. The video above features their address yesterday to the Occupy Wall Street crowd, as well as clips recorded during the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Goodman remarked,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let this send a message to police departments around the country as we move into the next conventions in Charlotte and Tampa, that the police must not violate our freedom to cover what is happening in the streets. It is not only a violation of freedom of the press, but a violation of the public\u2019s right to know, and we are particularly gratified to have come out of this settlement with the training agreement on the part of the St. Paul Police Department, working with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU and The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, to come up with a training manual and a training process, so that the St. Paul Police, and they will urge the Minneapolis police and the state police to do the same, will be trained in how to deal with reporters; not to engage and arrests of reporters or to engage in unlawful arrests at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over three years ago, Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, and two of its producers were violently arrested while covering the police crackdown on peaceful protests outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. They were wearing their press credentials, which the Secret Service ripped from their necks. Last year the journalists &#8230; <a title=\"Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/reporters-win-landmark-settlement-over-2008-rnc-arrests\/\" aria-label=\"More on Reporters Win Landmark Settlement Over 2008 RNC Arrests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}