Police have no right to disperse a free press doing its jobReporters count as people when police order mobs to disperse. If she was standing there, and not dispersing, then arresting her was valid.
No they don’t.
The press has an obligation to monitor police actions and report on abuses of power
Disbursing the press is an invitation to abuse
Reporters who are part of a mob, that is told to disperse, have a legal duty to disperse. If not they are subject to arrest.
Reporters are not part of a mob
They represent the free press. A basic Constitutional right
Sometimes they are. And if they are, and are told to disperse and don't, then they should be arrested.
Hee hee, good one.