WaPo and HuffPost Reporters Respond After Prosecutors Drop Ferguson Charges
"If every journalist covering criminal justice in this country was forced to go through the process we did, our coverage would be much more critical."
St. Louis County has dropped its senseless crusade against The Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery and The Huffington Post’s Ryan Reilly, who were arrested in August 2014 and then charged a year later for having the temerity to cover the protests in Ferguson, or, if you go by the offenses listed on the now-dropped charges, for trespassing and interfering with a police officer.
“The facts were on our side,” writes Reilly in the Huffington Post. “The manager of the McDonald’s never asked us to leave (let alone be arrested) and welcomed us back to the restaurant on many occasions.
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