SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: And then, two or three police officers tackled me. They threw me very violently against a wall. Then they threw me to the ground. I was kicked in the chest several times. A police officer ground his knee into my back. I was handcuffed with plastic handcuffs.
And the entire time, I was telling them, “I’m media. I’m press. I’m credentialed. I’m an accredited journalist.” But there was no—that didn’t seem to matter at all.
In an interesting case of dramatic irony, Sharif doesn't realize that the cops hate NPR, hate it, especially Democracy Now!
SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS: There was a photographer right next to me who was also taken down pretty violently. He was screaming he was press. He had credentials. He kept saying he was a photographer for the New York Post. He said, “For Christ’s sake, it’s a Republican paper!” But that didn’t seem to matter.
Again, apparently not realizing that Minnesotans will take any opportunity to beat the crap out of someone from New York City.
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