Georgia Fort Reflects on the Attack on Journalism: “I Wanted the Public to Know the Facts About My Arrest”
After her federal arrest for covering an ICE protest, journalist Georgia Fort reflects on fear, resistance, and why independent journalism faces unprecedented pressure.
Journalism has been a major topic of conversation over the past week, but the major talking point right now focuses on the federal arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for covering an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota that saw protesters take over a local church in the middle of its service. The two journalists were accused of violating the churchgoers’ constitutionally protected religious worship rights.
Things changed dramatically when news broke and video footage of Georgia Fort, a journalist and founder of BLCK Press, as well as the VP of NABJ Minnesota, went live on Facebook documenting her arrest. “It’s hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press,” she said in the video.
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