At least six journalists were plastic-shackled for hours or hauled off to jail while on assignment during Saturday’s Occupy Oakland melee with police.
National and local leaders of the Guild, NABET and the Society of Professional Journalists sent a letter to East Bay authorities demanding better treatment.
Jon Brooks spooled some of the “dramatic tweets” from reporters on the KQED blog, news Fix. One of the journalists, Susie Cagle, a member of the Guild Freelancers, was collared for the second time while covering Occupy. She wrote about her experience for the UK Guardian:
“I heard no dispersal order – only an announcement to “submit to the arrest.”


