CNN crew arrested on live television while covering Minneapolis protests

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[NEW YORK] A CNN reporting team was arrested live on television early Friday while covering the protests in Minneapolis, an extraordinary interference with freedom of the press that drew outrage from First Amendment advocates and a public apology from Minnesota's governor. Read more at The Business Times.

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It is common in autocratic countries for journalists to be swept up in arrests during protests and riots but rare in the United States, where news gathering is protected by the First Amendment. Lawyers at CNN reached out to Minnesota authorities, and the network's president, Jeffrey A Zucker, spoke briefly Friday morning with the state's governor, Tim Walz.

At a news conference Friday, Mr Walz issued what he called"a very public apology" to CNN for the morning's events, saying,"I take full responsibility; there is absolutely no reason something like this should happen." Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international anchor, wrote on Twitter that"arresting journalists is the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. We live in a democracy."

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president, former vice-president Joe Biden, weighed in on the incident in a Twitter post Friday."This is not abstract: a black reporter was arrested while doing his job this morning, while the white police officer who killed George Floyd remains free," Mr Biden wrote."I am glad swift action was taken, but this, to me, says everything."

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