NOW: NYPD arrest credentialed press Josh Pacheco (they/them) while covering a protest in Brooklyn. He was also arrested just a few weeks ago covering another protest.

Josh was released shortly after. Their response:

@JP_OTG To the police state, free speech or the free press isn't about pursuing democracy or humanization of others, it's considered to be a subversive act

@JP_OTG Oh no. They’re targeting him.

@JP_OTG

@JP_OTG Is this Iran? China? Whats is going on?

@JP_OTG Só? He didn’t follow. Police instructions…..

@JP_OTG Wow. Billions in US tax $$$ given to a foreign state to use the same US tax $$$ to deny freedom of speech/protest by US electorate now comes with arrest of US journalists to deny them covering protests. Wonder if this is the end of the puff pieces written about Netanyahu?

@JP_OTG What were the charges? Arrested to covering a story? This is the UNITED STATES of IsraHELL. Send HELP🆘

@JP_OTG Control the flow of information. Basic tenet of authoritarianism.

@JP_OTG this is what REPPRESSION looks like.