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Amy Goodman, host of the left-of-center Democracy Now! news program, is among those hauled off by police in St. Paul. She was covering protests directed at the Republican National Convention.
The arrest was captured on video.
According to Democracy Now!
Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who were being unlawfuly detained. They are Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. Kouddous and Salazar were arrested while they carried out their journalistic duties in covering street demonstrations at the Republican National Convention. Goodman’s crime appears to have been defending her colleagues and the freedom of the press.
Goodman and her colleagues are apparently being held on "suspicion of rioting."
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