Living near Portland I would say that anyone that puts "PRESS" on their shirt with tape defines themselves as a journalist...or even just someone holding a phone or camera. Same as those medics with a red cross out of tape. There have also been many examples of those 2 groups of people engaging in the violence that seem to think of themselves as immune to police orders because of it.

Unfortunately the videos and pictures of these examples of people hiding behind a designation are ignored by the MSM and are only found by being at the protests, looking at raw video or following ultra-conservative people like Andy Ngo.

This report also doesn't say why journalists were arrested. Many reports show that they were not following police orders to clear an area that has been designated a riot...and simply being part of the press doesn't give you the right to ignore police orders and if the police have to resort to non-lethal force in response to being attacked then being in the area leaves you vulnerable to the same non-lethal force.

Police don't have the time to check everyone's credentials at 1AM while having lasers and fireworks thrown at them when trying to clear out an area.

I dislike the police...but I also feel like they were not treated fairly in 2020, especially in places like Portland.