"Press freedom and civil liberties organizations sharply condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after journalists, including amNewYork’s own Dean Moses, were shoved and injured by officers at Manhattan’s immigration court.
ICE officers shoved Moses, this paper’s police bureau chief, and an Associated Press freelancer, Olga Fedorova, on Tuesday as they documented the detention of an immigrant near an elevator on the 12th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. Turkey-based Anadolu Agency videographer L. Vural Elibol was hospitalized with what appeared to be a serious injury after falling during the scuffle.
Elibol told Reuters he was trying to film the migrant being taken into custody when “someone yanked me and threw me to the ground.” He was examined at a local hospital before being discharged with pain medicine.
The National Press Photographers Association called the incident “a blatant attack on press freedom” and demanded accountability.
“ICE must be held accountable for violating its own policy and for trampling on the First Amendment rights of these photographers,” said NPPA general counsel Mickey H. Osterreicher. “Anything less sends a chilling message to journalists everywhere.”"
https://www.amny.com/immigration/ice-attack-reporters-civil-liberties-groups-react/
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