Minnesota state police arrest CNN's Omar Jimenez for reporting

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Black CNN Correspondent Arrested Live on TV in Minneapolis

However, CNN's Josh Campbell, former assistant to FBI's James Comey, is left alone at the same site.

Video clip of the arrest:

More of the same…Smdh

CNN is covering this story now.

Bakari Sellers is commenting.

Doesn't seem like they read his Miranda rights.

Longer video from CNN:

The police are completely out of fucking control. You can't just arrest any minority because you don't like something they said or did. Imagine going through society knowing that at any moment someone could take custody of you or brutalize you at will for no reason. That's what we live through everday. It can't go on. No one should have to put up with this. They need to be fired. Floyd's killers need to be arrested, IMMEDIATELY.

CNN President Jeff Zucker says he has received an apology from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Yeah but has he received his reporter in one piece?

Are you frightened for the country this morning? Am I panicking or is this out of control? Mayors across the country must be freaked out this mornIng. And the goddamn virus. Jesus. Or am I Mary? I’d like to be a Mary right now. Am worried I’m not.

CNN Producer Bill Kirkos and CNN Photojournalist Leonel Mendez were also arrested with CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez.

He is being released right now. CNN says the police never turned off the camera and have been watching the whole thing.

CNNs feed

He's free and back on live!

No he isn’t. I’m watching CNN right now. Stop fucking around.

What’s wrong with you, R16?

Dude, he is live on CNN right now.

Please welcome to the stage: MIRANDA WRIGHTS

He's being interviewed now on CNN

He was definitely released

Alisyn Camerota and John Berman keep telling him what a good job he did. It's cringy.

He doesn't have a face mask on anymore.

Love We the Pizza r22!

Oh my God. Laughing out loud. I am so sorry, R16. The pause on my remote got hit and when I pressed it it picked up the feed from where it got paused. So I’ve been 20 minutes behind or more the whole time! oh, Rose! Sorry sorry sorry sorry!

Did I miss anything else? Christmas? A coronavirus cure? Who shot JR

So the cops are clearly just arresting any black guys they see.

Good thing he only got arrested! The other day they were killing black guys r27!

The state police are falsely claiming they were confused as protestors while they were trying to clear the streets.

AGAIN we have it on video. They were standing there calmly talking to the media for several minutes before the spontaneous arrest. He repeatedly asked them where they would like him and his crew to stand. There was no error or confusion. The police knew exactly what they were doing. They wanted to teach the black guy a lesson for not knowing his place and they think they can just do it.

Did they charge him with anything?

R30 Being Black, a Class A Misdemeanor.

R30 no charges. Just arrested and held against his will for no reason.

[quote]Just arrested and held against his will

I think it's safe to assume that anytime someone is arrested, it's against his or her will.

Just burn the whole city down. Minnesota Lice.

Trump & his voters are jizzing in their pants over this. A CNN reporter under arrest.

WTF is wrong with America? I'm not denying that the UK is a shambles, but Christ. Americans really do take it to another level.

R33 that's not true. The police FREQUENTLY allow perps to voluntarily come to the station and turn themselves over for booking. They can do that anytime they like at their discretion. It's especially common with wealthy, white people who have committed financial crimes. They will almost never come to your hedge fund and cuff you. Only in the most extreme cases like rape or murder.

But with black people they prefer roughing them up. Regardless of what they are alleged to have done. With Omar, if they actually even believed he did something (they didn't) they could have just issued him a ticket or citation. Instead they decided to cuff him and hold him to "teach him a lesson". It's unacceptable.

Floyd was accused of forging a check! Even if you believe he did it, he was no imminent threat to anyone around him. There wasn't even a reason to cuff him, nevermind murder him

Obviously he was arrested for Reporting While Black, a felony in many states. Its a serious crime, right up there with Driving While Black and Eating While Black.

But hockey, though.

"7 Times White People Rioted for No Fucking Reason"

[quote]I think it's safe to assume that anytime someone is arrested, it's against his or her will.

I dunno.

[quote]Jesus. Or am I Mary? I’d like to be a Mary right now.

Bad news, bitch — you’re Joseph.

Bootsy, I deplore you. Really. Not joking. I hope that was a dig at me because I've made it plain elsewhere on the site but the only thing making you less hateful is Saliva Fouler. You have a nice day.

Fun tweets in reply to the State Police fiction:

mike Moyai @mikesbadtweets · 1h Replying to @MnDPS_MSP and @GillianMorley_ congrats to the detective who cracked the case of whether the camera crew and reporter broadcasting live on cnn were members of the media 11 48 675

Wavey Shore @wavyshore · 1h Perhaps he should be assigned to the mystifying case of whether the cop we saw kill the man on video should be arrested

I'm sorry for what happened to Omar but he will now rise in the ranks of TV journalism. He'll have his own show within a few months and forever be known by that clip of him being arrested. He will owe his career to that one event.

Oh, I don't think that could happen, R44.

I think this situation is very unfortunate. I can't get past how this might hurt my chances of being selected as Biden's VP. And I was on such a roll!

Amy, I loved 'officer-involved death' so much as a euphemism for 'murder by racist cop'. What do call this one, 'reporter-handcuff interaction' or similar? Oh, and do you know the name of the president of Mexico yet?

Amy, it's over.

Val Demmings weighs in, simultaneously putting Amy's veep prospects in permanent lockdown.

By Val Demings May 29, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EDT Val Demings, a Democrat, represents Florida’s 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

As a former woman in blue, let me begin with my brothers and sisters in blue: What in the hell are you doing?

She's playing this moment well, no doubt. But I don't believe for one second that she didn't witness police abuses frequently as an officer herself and helped covered it up like they all do.

She knows exactly "what the hell" they're doing. The police all protect their own.

r44 someone wont let Omar be great

America has fallen. A civil war is brewing.

[quote]A civil war is brewing.

Good.

Reporters arrested: 4. Cops arrested: 0.

Additionally, the 4 cops are not cooperating with prosecutors, invoking the 5th Amendment. I believe the procedure for someone not cooperating is choking them to death, so they may want to get on that.

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Seriously, this is terrorist group work.

Remember this from like 2 weeks ago? No tear gas, no arrests.

Do the MPLS police department even CARE about how this looks? On LIVE TV?

Jesus - talk about tone deaf. They deserve what's coming to them.

It was the MN State Police, not that it makes it better.

They put out some kind of gaslighting statement.

I think for too long it was just okay for them to do anything they wanted to any black person they saw. And now they don't know how to control themselves.

They feel they shouldn't have to stand there and let a Black person report things they don't want to hear. They should just be able to beat his brains in and then claim he "resisted arrest" for some fabricated crime

This is opportunistic malfeasance

'I'm sorry for what happened to Omar but he will now rise in the ranks of TV journalism. He'll have his own show within a few months and forever be known by that clip of him being arrested. He will owe his career to that one event."

He was on CNN, not Fox News.

Is it true that during the broadcast, Omar switched from a pandemic mask to a tear gas mask? Before the arrest.

If so, we must get our affairs in order because that is a sign of the Apocalypse. I am sure of it.

"Baby, it's going to be a long, hot summer. Helter Skelter, Squirrel!"

Boris Badenov

Frostbite Falls, Minnesota

[quote]D. Lemon, beneath my Queen Helene

Oh Don, we all already knew you were a bottom.

Marie, are you joking?

Watch: @OmarJimenez's account of his arrest this morning

[quote] Doesn't seem like they read his Miranda rights.

You watched too many 1970s cop shows.

There would be no reason to read him his Miranda rights. That’s only necessary when you’re being questioned about a crime.

It ain’t like TV.

You just know Don is one SOUR Lemon with all the attention Omar is getting. Plus the puss or the peen, not sure which way he swings.

Yeah Omar better dial it down, Don is the HBIC

Don praised Omar as a wonderful young man a few nights ago and said how proud he was of him.

Omar used to intern for Don. Did Don have the hots for him?

[quote]Omar used to intern for Don.

What?? We need more information on this arrangement!

R69, but what you didn't see is when Don got back to his dressing room and violently cleared off his tubs of moisturizers from his vanity before collapsing on his fainting couch in a stream of tears, bitter that attention will not be on him.

CNN Transcript:

LEMON:

"But what I will say, I just wanted to say something about Omar. Omar came to CNN, I think it was eight years ago, OK, as an intern from Northwestern School of Journalism.

I shared him as an intern with the "Newsroom". I just moved back to New York City from Atlanta to work at the CNN bureau here. And Omar was an intern for that first summer, him and another young man, Howard Cohen. And they asked me -- they would come to my office and asked me for stuff to do, right? Don, what can we do? Can we help you on this story? Do you need anything? What can we do for your show? What have you?"

‘I shared him’ . . as an intern. Anyone else read anything sexual into that? Mmm.

Sharing is caring.

damn DL should've kept that on "DL" lol, Ronan Farrow is probably now investigating all these "young men" who've interned for him