The following article, Watch: Reporter Arrested After Trying to Cover Pro-Palestine Rally at University Campus, was first published on another website.Flag And Cross.
A Tennessee reporter was arrested Tuesday as Vanderbilt University students staged a pro-Palestinian protest.
Nashville Scene reporter Eli Motycka was detained on a trespassing allegation after campus police said he violated a warning, something he denied, according to WPLN-FM.
The officer in charge of arresting Motycka said that the reporter had been warned.
“No, I have not been warned. No one has said those words to me,” he said in a video posted to social media platform X.
Scene reporter Eli Motycka (@ejmotycka) was arrested by Vanderbilt police while reporting on student protests. pic.twitter.com/5HPcRHtI7H
— Nashville Scene (@NashvilleScene) March 26, 2024
As he was led away, students chanted “F*** you, fascists,” although it was unclear whether that was part of the protest or directed at security taking Motycka away.
“I wasn’t warned today that I would be taken off this campus in handcuffs. I was here interviewing students. I was here witnessing a protest, and now it’s become about me, I guess,” Motycka said as he was escorted to a police car.
Davidson County District Attorney Glenn Funk later said the case would not go any further.
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