CHICAGO COPS ARREST LOCAL JOURNALISTS: ‘YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS CAN BE TERMINATED’

CHICAGO COPS ARREST LOCAL JOURNALISTS: ‘YOUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS CAN BE TERMINATED’

A police report states: “We removed two individuals from the hospital at the request of hospital security guards, who asserted that the individuals had tried to go past them into secure and private areas of the hospital. The security guards declined to press charges and the individuals were released.”

Though it is very possible that the journalists attempted to enter the hospital— their video appears to be edited— does that warrant the police officer’s graphic response, and his threat to “terminate” the first amendment rights of the journalists?