Access Hour | Rally for Independent Journalists Attacked By Police | July 15, 2020

On the Access Hour this week, your host, Justin Mog, brings you full coverage of the July 10th rally at 6th & Jefferson organized by Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice in support of independent journalists who have suffered unconstitutional attacks and harassment by police as they try to cover the Black Lives Matter protests around the city and around the country. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented over 470 such unlawful incidents in over 70 U.S. cities since the May 25th police lynching of George Floyd. Learn more at https://pressfreedomtracker.us/george-floyd-protests/

Learn more about local white anti-racist work at http://facebook.com/SURJLouisville

Thanks to Democracy Now! for providing the news clip included in this program. You can find the original report at https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/5/chris_frierson_filmmaker_pepper_sprayed

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