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Missouri’s boorish students

The photographer in this video is working for ESPN, covering protests at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He’s on public property, where he has a right to be, exercising First Amendment rights. He can photograph the protesters for the same reason citizens have a right to videotape police activity over the cops’ objections. The protesters have a right to protest, but they don’t have a right to control what the media reports (their apparent objective), or to push journalists out of a media-free zone designated by them without any legal authority whatsoever. And this behavior renders them nothing more than a mob. Read the story here.

 


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