Journalist Georgia Fort arrested over reporting on anti-ICE protest

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Georgia Fort, an independent journalist in Minnesota, was arrested by federal agents Friday morning in connection with her coverage of an anti-ICE protest at a church this month.

Fort, an award-winning journalist with a focus on social justice issues who has worked in commercial and nonprofit television and radio news for more than 15 years, filmed and shared her own arrest. In 2022, she co-founded the Center for Broadcast Journalism to increase diversity across Minnesota media outlets. She is also vice president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, or NABJ.

In a Facebook post of the video with the caption “Agents are at my door,” Fort said: “We are supposed to have our constitutional right of the freedom to film, to be a member of the press. I don’t feel like I have my First Amendment right as a member of the press.”

Fort surrendered to federal agents on advice of her lawyer, according to local news reports.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/journalist-georgia-fort-arrested-over-202528145.html

[Dale in Laurel MD]

1. My understanding is that all

the arrested journalists are African-American.