What a Getty Photographer Captured Before He Was Arrested in Ferguson

[flamingdem]

Rachel just showed an amazing image by this guy, can't find it on this site but these are close.

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Getty Images photographer Scott Olson was arrested Monday evening during protests in Ferguson.

Reporters on the scene captured photos and videos of his arrest. An Instagram video appears to show Olson as police tie the photographer's hands behind his back.

"Media are required to be in a certain area," Olson comments. He goes on to identify himself as a photographer with Getty Images.

"We strongly object to his arrest and are committed to ensuring he is able to resume his important work of capturing some of the most iconic images of this news story," Getty Images VP Pancho Bernasconi said in a statement Monday night. He said Getty is "working to secure his release as soon as possible."

Getty managed to capture several pictures of Olson being arrested, and identified him in their captions. But Olson has been in Ferguson since early last week, and has taken some of the most memorable pictures of what has happened there since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a police officer on August 9.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-video/what-a-getty-photographer-captured-before-he-was-arrested-in-ferguson-20140818



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[flamingdem]

1. I found the amazing photo Rachel showed but it's link only

Last edited Mon Aug 18, 2014, 10:42 PM - Edit history (2)

Check it out:

Update: fixed with a URL trick from Make7

[sheshe2]

4. Gawd!

Amazing yet heartbreaking photos at both links, flamingdem.

Thank you, we need to see and hear it all.

[flamingdem]

5. I have to hand it to the media on this one

they sunk their resources into covering this, at least on cable.

We do need to see and hear it all!

[Make7]

21. Change the '!' in the URL to '%21' to get the image to display.

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[flamingdem]

22. Does that trick always work?

Good to know.

[Make7]

23. I hesitate to say always when it comes to computers...

... but URL encoding of special characters in URLs is supposed to be supported.

Not sure if this is the complete list, but here are the characters that DU3 seems to have issues with in image URLs:

[div class="excerpt" style="display:inline-block; margin-left:1em; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius:0.4615em; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #bfbfbf inset;"]! replace with %21
$ replace with %24
( replace with %28
) replace with %29
* replace with %2A
+ replace with %2B
, replace with %2C
: replace with %3A
@ replace with %40

[roguevalley]

31. Beirut, Gaza or Missouri?

Thank you, Great Grandma and Grandpa for leaving Missouri in 1868 to go to Oregon. I would be dying inside if this were my state. Missouri, WTF!?

[malaise]

2. I am really glad this is happening to media folks

Maybe now they'll understand their role in fighting to keep democracy rather than doing the bidding of corporations.

[flamingdem]

3. That's so true. I just saw the Don Lemon being yelled at and pushed

by a cop. Don Lemon!

[malaise]

6. He's just another black man to that racist cop

The will all learn - they will have to stop pretending that there is no racism. The white media person being attacked are merely n-lovers to these racists.

Let me say something else that will annoy some folks - all these African-American mothers obsessed with the long fake nails, the three pounds of Asian hair and the latest fashion will have to wake the fuck up and teach their children about the society they live in.

They will have to do what we did - boycott all the fugging corporations and support their own and those who support them.

[flamingdem]

7. I was just thinking that the cop had no idea that Don Lemon

is seen all over the world. It's great that it happened to him, CNN will have to deal.

I hope you're right and that there are many family sit downs going on over this.

[malaise]

8. I wouldn't recognize one person on Fox

We don't even have the channel. Just saying - you think those racists in Ferguson watch CNN?
Bwaaaaaaaaaaah!

[tblue37]

15. Lemon was holding a mike with a prominent CNN logo, so I doubt the cop

missed his media megaphone. The cop just didn't give a doodly-darn.

At the end of that video clip, Lemon points out that if the cops will behave that badly while being broadcast live on national news, you can just imagine how they act when they are not being watched and when their victims do not have such a large soapbox to speak from.

[flamingdem]

16. Wow, Lemon made a real point there

I like it when he's not doing real points instead of talking points.

[tblue37]

27. You typoed there--saying you like when he is NOT doing real points.

I know you meant when he is doing real points, but some people might not, so I am just giving you a heads-up there.

But, yes, he really made clear how racist and unreasonable these cops are being. They say, "You must stand there," and then when the reporters and protesters stand where they are told to, they are then told that if they stand there, they will be arrested--or teargassed, or shot.

It's as though these cops have gotten away with so much for so long that they simply cannot wrap their minds around the notion that things don't work quite the same way when the whole world is watching.

[sunnystarr]

9. What makes you think

having long fake nails, 3 pounds of Asian hair and the latest fashion has anything to do with what they are teaching their children? African American mothers know too well the dangers of living in our society and teach and warn their children of the dangers every day.

If you're implying that there are bad moms out there then you're right. But that has nothing to do with color or ethnicity. That's a color blind issue.

[malaise]

10. Sorry - I see what the hair in particular

to my part of the planet. If you hate yourself why should racists like you?

[sunnystarr]

11. What an unbelievable

statement devoid of any facts and unsuitable for judgment. Books have been written on an answer to your question which bring light and understanding to women's self-esteem regardless of color. Google and read some you'll be greatly enlightened.

[malaise]

12. There are also academic studies showing the connections between

skin bleaching, the long weaves, lack of self esteem and self hatred.

Watch this when you can.

[byronius]

17. Interesting video.

What a window.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. saving for later---MUST watch. thank you malaise. n/t

[aggiesal]

28. Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy

http://progresoweekly.us/princeton-study-u-s-longer-actual-democracy/

Don't mean to spoil your optimism.

[malaise]

34. Michael Parenti provided enough evidence that it is a

Democracy for the Few decades ago, but people still fight for their rights.

[Cha]

13. Stunning compelling images from Scott Olson that capture the brutal essence of the police in

Ferguson, MO, flamingdem.. thank you.

[flamingdem]

19. Cha I'm not sure anyone would believe it

without the photos!

[Cha]

24. And, coincidently the FPD arrested him! Get the PR firm on that!

[L0oniX]

14. ...O'er the land of the free ...blah blah blah

[flamingdem]

18. What's missing is a tattered American flag

The constitution is having a work out in Ferguson.

[MrMickeysMom]

25. Al Jazeera last night was playing back some interesting police talk...

Isn't it nice to great catch a moment on camera of those you serve and protect with a good ole, "Get the fuck outta here"

and, the ever-popular...
"Gonna kick your fucking head in!"

The pity of it is that if you ARE a good officer, you work very hard to keep the peace. Every single one of them know it.

What makes you a dirty cop? I'll tell you, it's who leads you there. If anyone should be brought up on charges after the shooter criminal cop, it's his chief.

[flamingdem]

26. There's something rotten in that chain of command

Brown's gift to his city will be when they root it out

[Quayblue]

32. ..... no words but +1

[MrMickeysMom]

33. Sometimes you have to do root canal, flamingdem...

That's what this continued escalation seems to be.

[OnyxCollie]

29. Is it a police state yet?

[flamingdem]

30. It has the look of one except

for the protesters.

You don't see that last long in an authoritarian state. Hooray for the constitution.