10 journalists were put in cuffs and/or violently assaulted by LAPD on Friday night.
@willbunch.bsky.social wrote his Sunday @inquirer.com column about what this means for press freedom nationally.
My description: “Utter lawlessness by the LAPD... they seemed thirsty to crack skulls.”
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In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.