Baton vs camera: Police open hunt for citizen journalists

As the consolidated corporate media machine fails in its function as the fourth estate, citizen journalists and independent press outlets are there to pick up the slack. But this important task is becoming increasingly threatened by the harsh treatment at the hands of the police force. Citizen based media is often targeted by police for reporting unfiltered truths, or they are lumped together with activists/protesters and beaten or arrested. As more and more Americans choose alternative news sources to find out what is really happening in their country, harassing those providing first hand reports muzzles the free flow of information and poses a threat to democracy. Abby Martin explores the subject for RT.

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[rainbo5250]

This isn't America anymore.

The America I learned about in school would uphold the sacred Constitution, and PROTECT citizens, who are exercising their rights.

*BEATING citizens

* JAILING citizens

* THREATENING citizens

* SPYING on citizens

* MURDERING citizens (Presidential HIT LIST)

* DISAPPEARING citizens

Are all signs we are in tyranny,...and in DANGER.

[Awbrfg55]

"no longer will history be written by the winners, it will just be documented as it is" powerful stuff.

[wyominglost]

Tim Pools the Boss!

[Jayadev Yoga]

Palabra!

[glicthguy]

With great power comes great responsibilty...use it wisley

[Mandems96]

if they have cameras on every street watching us like cattle can't we do the same. bulshit.

independent media rule

[annie46664]

10th July 2012~ MASS ARRESTS have begun ~ HOORAY! Hopefully they'll all be shipped OFF PLANET never to return again. BA$TARDS.

We the people are now in charge of our own planet, lives & futures.

HIP! HIP! HOORAY!

~South Africa~

[stophypocrisy]

Yes, how do the psychopaths get into office? If the police are supporting the criminally insane psychopath then they have to be psychopath as well and that means we are screwed! We are run by a mafia like insane asylum.

[AustralienGuy]

Stooge wake up to REALITY

[AustralienGuy]

This is why the governments under the pretext of intellectual property security are trying very hard to censor FREE SPEECH on the internet. Have a look at the concept of thesis-antithesis then synthesis. China is The best example: Though pretending to be communist(thesis) as opposed to capitalist(antithesis) they are actually a hybrid of both systems or a synthesis of the systems. China above all other countries has be awarded the most amount of awards by the U.N. despite its human rights abuses

[Zyworski]

I have simply stopped watching television. I cancelled my cable subscription. Printed news is now supplanted by my smart phone. The mainstream media is no longer able to make a profit spreading lies, so they must rely upon more cash from sponsors, who distort the news and drive even more viewers away, it is a vicious circle they are in.

[meowziklvr]

RT has more extensive coverage on the Russian opposition protests than any other mainstream media in the west. For example: /watch?v=ME9Qvy_Z9Sw , watch?v=GclfzgFYeg4 and many more. Their political commentary on domestic (Russian) issues is also pretty balanced. For example, watch?v=n-UtQ3KlzxM