After Georgia Fort and Don Lemon reported from a church whose pastor reportedly works for ICE, agents arrested Fort in front of her children
When federal agents arrived at Georgia Fort’s front door to arrest her, she knew what to do: be a journalist.
Fort, an independent Minnesota reporter who faces criminal charges after covering a protest inside a St Paul church, took out her phone and spoke directly to the camera, livestreaming to her audience that her lawyer advised her to go with the agents. Her three kids were in the house at the time, she said.
“I’m going to have to hop off here and surrender to agents,” she said in the video on 30 January. “As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago, and now I’m being arrested for that. It’s hard to understand how we have a constitution, constitutional rights, when you can just be arrested for being a member of the press.”
Fort was one of two journalists, alongside Don Lemon, charged for covering the 18 January protest during services at St Paul’s Cities church, where the pastor reportedly works as a field director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Remember folks: Republicans are OK with this. They want their authority to punish those they feel deserve it. That includes journalists that make them look bad… By recording reality.
If someone documents reality, that makes it harder for fascists to manipulate it.
It seems like an eternity ego that someone (Colbert?) coined the phrase, “reality has a distinctly liberal bias”.
Land of the free
But only so far as it allows idiots to own firearms,
To kill children, not actually rise up against tyrants
Can’t hold a burger and a rifle at the same time, huh 'Murica?
Free fall into fascism.
Yeah, I was gonna say; isn’t the free press usually the first or second to be targeted?
We’re not truly there yet I think, but there will be a point where naive dissidents simply “go with the agents” out of sense of civility, and they are never seen again. Often not even the records seized after the fascists’ downfall shed any light on their fate.
Well, your constitution is dead since Trump took office. When will you understand this important fact?
