Omar Jimenez CNN Correspondent & Crew Arrest Video
Channel: I Can't Breathe Movement
Date: 02/06/2020

Omar Jimenez, a CNN journalist reporting on the ground in Minneapolis, about the mass uprising against the police killing of George Floyd, was arrested on live television.

It was a little after 5 a.m. local time when the news generators became the news; the sky was still purple as Jimenez and members of his television crew were handcuffed. One by one, they were escorted from their station on a city block strewn with the detritus of rebellion. While he was in the process of being detained, a cameraman, struck with a documentarian’s foresight, left his device on the ground, still recording, facing upward at a gonzo angle. We watched and heard the recession of an officer’s boots as he retrieved the camera, which was also our aperture to the truth. Viewers watching live would have heard the honest bafflement in the voices of the anchors back in the studio, disturbing the detached tone of morning TV. Jimenez’s arrest was not only wrong, as the arrests of journalists in Ferguson, Missouri, six years ago. Its occurrence on live television made it also cretinous, serving to highlight the state’s delay in apprehending Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed Floyd, on Monday night, by pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck for a period of more than eight minutes. (Chauvin was finally taken into custody on Friday afternoon.)

SOURCE: The New Yorker

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