<story><title>Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>deathanatos</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Journalists covering a protest in a Minneapolis suburb Friday night were forced on their stomachs by law enforcement, rounded up and were only released after having their face and press credentials photographed.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;The incident occurred hours after a judge issued a temporary order barring the Minnesota State Patrol from using physical force or chemical agents against journalists, according to court documents.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sounds like the police don&amp;#x27;t care about the judge&amp;#x27;s order, nor the rights of journalists.</text></comment>
<story><title>Police in Minnesota round up journalists and take pictures of their faces</title><url>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/17/brooklyn-center-protests-police-round-up-journalists/7268057002/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>&amp;quot;After about 30 minutes, law enforcement told protesters to the leave the area in a loudspeaker announcement calling the demonstration an unlawful assembly.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Unlawful assembly.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In England, the offence was abolished in 1986, but it exists in other countries.&amp;quot;[0]&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;while freedom of association is used in the context of labor rights and in the Constitution of the United States is interpreted to mean both the freedom to assemble and the freedom to join an association&amp;quot;[1]&lt;p&gt;I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be too excited about police in my area invoking &amp;quot;unlawful assembly&amp;quot; willy-nilly, especially when followed up by the &amp;quot;identification of press&amp;quot; actions as described in the article.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t want to go too far off the deep end in commentary, but it&amp;#x27;s more anecdata pointing in an uncomfortable direction.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unlawful_assembly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Unlawful_assembly&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freedom_of_assembly&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Freedom_of_assembly&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>