Two Journalists Assaulted and Arrested in Ferguson

Two journalists — Ryan Reilly (pictured) of The Huffington Post and Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post — were assaulted and arrested last night while covering the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.

According to Lowery’s Twitter account, the two men were working in a McDonald’s when a SWAT team burst in and demanded that everyone leave. The SWAT team grew upset that Reilly and Lowery were recording the events (which is completely legal) and so they decided to slam Reilly’s head against a window and shove Lowery into a soda machine. Both