CNN national correspondent Jason Carroll was “detained” by police during his live coverage of large scale anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles Monday (June 9) night.
“I am being detained,” Carroll was head saying while shown in handcuffs and walked out of the area by police during a live shot on an extended edition of Laura Coates Live.
“I’m not being arrested, correct, officers?” he was heard asking officers.
“Did you hear what he told you?” the officer asked Carroll.
“No,” he replied.
“We’re letting you go, but you can’t come back,” the officer responded. “Because then if you come back in, then you go. Ok, please?”
“Ok, thank you, officer,” Carroll replied before once again addressing Coates.
“So here’s what happened, Laura,” he said. “I was called over, and the officer told me to put my hands behind my back. I said, ‘Am I being arrested?’ He said, ‘You are being detained.’ I was walked out of the area. They took down my information.”
Carroll’s audio suddenly cutoff before CNN Chief Law Enforcement Analyst John Miller further explained the situation.
“You have anarchist groups and agitators who show up and say, ‘Well, I have a blog, so therefore I’m press. So therefore, even though I’ve been throwing bottles and screaming epithets, I’m not part of the protest. I want to be treated as media.’ So they sort through people one at a time,” Miller said.
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