Riots continue in Ferguson, Missouri–and so, too, have the arrests of journalists–at least 11 so far.
Getty Images photographer Scott Olson (C) is arrested by a highway patrol officer during a protest for the shooting death of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri August 18, 2014. He was arrested because police required media to be within certain areas, media quoted another journalist as saying. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon lifted the curfew for the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on Monday and began deploying National Guard troops to help quell days of rioting and looting spurred by the fatal shooting of the black unarmed teenager by a white policeman. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
Here’s a sampling of some of the criticism heaped on officials in Missouri:
