After Scary SWAT Team arrest of Journalist Max Blumenthal By D.C. Police, A Similar Incident As Officers Go Out To Arrest Medea Benjamin: In Each Case It Was Apparently In Response To Their Publication Of U.S. Involvement In Coups, Venezuela and Bolivia

Here is more that is truly frightening about the threat to journalistic freedoms.
                   
We posted previously about how in October Journalist Max Blumenthal published a Grayzone article about United States funding of lobbying by the Juan Guaidó team with which the U.S. tried to replace the Venezuelan government via a coup. . .  And then, shortly thereafter, literally hours later, Blumenthal was arrested in a SWAT team style raid by Washington D.C. police (apparently coordinating with feds?), shackled and held incommunicado.  See:

Scary SWAT Team arrest of Journalist Max Blumenthal After He Reports United States Government Funding of Venezuela Juan Guaidó Coup Team

Hard of the heels of that incident, the Washington D.C. police similarly went out to arrest activist and journalist, CodePink Founder Medea Benjamin.  And its alarming how similar their reason was, like messages are being very intentionally sent: Medea Benjamin was publicizing the U.S. backing of coups in Venezuela and Bolivia.  Again, the ostensible reason for the police to go out and arrest Ms. Benjamin was a supposed “assault” that didn’t happen.  In the end, Benjamin was not arrested.  More about it from Democracy Now with an interview of Ms. Benjamin here:

CodePink Founder Medea Benjamin Threatened with Arrest After Protesting U.S. Foreign Interventions, November 14, 2019

In each case, if you delve into it, you’ll find that the real thugs, are on the other side. That is not a reference to the Washington D.C. police, although their conduct and involvement in these matters is problematic.  It’s a reference to the people supporting these coups seeking to trump up charges that were used to send those police out.