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Police in Minnesota Round Up, Detain Photographers Covering a Protest

Detained, forced on their stomachs, and not released until they submitted to having faces and press credentials photographed.

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Tim Evans, a freelance photojournalist for the European Pressphoto Agency, says he was tackled to the ground, punched, and sprayed with chemical irritants. He claims that all the while, he was identifying himself as press with his credentials clearly visible. He goes on to claim that the officer who had carried out this attack took Evans’ press badge and threw it away, saying he didn’t care if he was with the media.