CNN’s Jason Carroll Recounts Getting Detained by LAPD: ‘It Is Something that I Wasn’t Expecting’

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CARROLL: "Well, I‘m outside the perimeter, Laura. Again, I think you heard John Miller explain, and I think he explained it — explained it best. You know, as I was walking over to the officer, tried to explain, you know, who I was, identified who I was with, I turned, he said, 'I‘d like you to turn around.' I turned around, I had my hands behind my back. They did not put me in zip ties, but they did grab both my hands as I was escorted over to the side. They said, 'You are being detained while we lead you out of this area. You are not allowed to be in this area.' So they took me over to the side, they took down my name, they asked me where I was from. You know, they get your basic information. And I said, 'Am I being arrested?' He said, 'No, you‘re not being arrested. You‘re being detained.' And so there‘s that. You know, as press, you know, these are some of the things that you — you know, you take a lot of risks as press. This is low on that sort of scale of risks, but it is something that I wasn‘t expecting simply because we‘ve been out here all day. I have covered any number of protests, and normally there‘s, you know, the — you know, the officers put the press — realize that the press is there doing a job, so to speak.”