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Wherever you'd want us, we will go. We're just getting out of your way when you're advancing

through the intersection. So, have you seen this clip, Nick? Yeah, I've seen it. I'm sorry?

No, I'm doing rest. Okay. Do you know why I'm under arrest, sir? Why am I under arrest?

This is the end of May of this year, 2020. During protests in Minneapolis following the police

killing of George Floyd. A CNN television crew was arrested by police as they were filming.

So, this is on live television. We're all about to be arrested. That's not a producer.

Officers said that the crew refused to move. Even though you hear them offer to move.

They later released the crew after learning they were news media, even though the crew told

them they were news media. Right now, on live television, in handcuffs. I've never seen anything like this.

I'm being arrested now. So, I watched this and I was like, okay, what about the First Amendment?

Isn't that a violation of the freedom of the press?

The police are now saying they're being arrested because they were told to move and did.

This is Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy works.

I'm Hannah McCarthy. I'm Nick Capodice. And this is part two on Freedom of the Press.

And it's a murky one because, well, press freedom can seem a little tenuous these days.

In 2020 alone, 188 journalists have been attacked. 60 of them have been arrested.

This is Melissa Wasser, a policy analyst with the reporters committee for Freedom of the Press.

There's been many damaged equipment, searched in search and seizure of that equipment.

And during the Black Lives Matter protests alone, this summer, over 740 reported aggressions against the press.

We saw it in Minnesota when the CNN crew got arrested. We see it at rallies by the president

where he could say something negative and kind of fan the flames. And you see the crowd reacting to

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