Yet one thing that’s important to understand is that much of the ongoing assault against American journalists isn’t being undertaken by federal law enforcement, but by local cops or state troopers — some of them at least ostensibly under the command of reform-minded Democratic mayors or governo.
Cops go to demonstrations thinking that someone is going to try to kill them, so they try to kill the demonstrators.
Observers believe Trump’s restoration has given rank-and-file officers a permission structure to unleash brutality on both protesters and the press, divorced from bosses’ politics.