I'd like to see some evidence of that happening on scale. If there is no such evidence, I think, perhaps, your comment proves the parent's point.
he has hundreds(?) of examples if you scroll, but to save some time here's one from portland police
https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/128725192442150502...
Edit: ok searching "press" on the feed maybe like more like tens rather than hundreds with actual video evidence, but im sure i missed some
As for the second post. It is indeed a person wearing a shirt that says press on it who is not a journalist. However, the given reason was “so he would not be shot by feds” which to me highlights the spirt of this conversation, that there is growing concern as well as some evidence that the country has sifted toward a more authoritarian bent.
Edit: I forgot to mention that there were no rocks or molotovs being thrown in any of the videos I saw, which there were reportedly hundreds of.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298145371009380352?s=2...
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296075594896039937?s=2...
https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-protest-press-throwing-o...
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1296610943514812418?s=2...
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1300690653714591744?s=2...
https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=26109...
From above police report link:
"Portland Fire & Rescue treated two Portland Police members injured by rocks thrown by individuals in the crowd. Both of them went to the hospital for further treatment. One of the rocks (pictured) weighed 9.5 pounds and was thrown by a person in group of people wearing "press" as the officer prepared to ride away on a truck. "
"At about 12:36 a.m., Portland Police began moving the crowd to the west as before. This went on for about twenty minutes. Police made more arrests. During this time people in the crowd mingled with those with "press" written on their outer garments as cover and threw rocks and bottles at police. People with "press" written on their outer garments also threw objects at police. Somebody threw a rock, which broke a window in the vehicle giving public address announcements. Others pelted the same vehicle with rocks causing dents. Other vehicles were dented by thrown objects. At least one car parked along a street had windows broken out when a rock or rocks thrown at police, missed them and struck the car windows. "
This is going to cause some serious psychological damage down the road. No one takes that kind of abuse and comes away unchanged.
The fact that at no point did police simply open fire in mass. Well that is truly impressive.
You think that it's "impressive" (?!) that the police, while working, did _not_ commit mass murder in response to being called names?
What hideous third-world country do you live in? And while many people see the police as degenerates, your description and expectations of them are about as low as a human being could go.
It's true that there was one police report you linked mentioning people labeled "press" attacking officers, and Andy Ngo himself claimed that this is happening. Everything else is just recycling of those claims (e.g. Andy Ngo retweets that Fox News reports that Andy Ngo says fake press are attacking the police).
If this really is happening all the time, I would expect it would be easy to find video evidence of it happening repeatedly, as we do find for other activities that definitely are happening all the time, like police brutality against protestors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95GCraUPiGE.
A single instance of a protestor who falsely claimed to be press, and did not commit any crimes does not prove that people who claim to be journalists are throwing rocks or molotov cocktails.
Yes, 117 arrests is a lot.