Arrested protesters were confined in their cells for 23 hours each day, allowed only one hour to walk around and make phone calls. The lights at the facility stayed on all night, preventing particularly people on top bunks from sleeping. Jacobson almost made it back to Flom’s vehicle before she too was arrested.įlom described the next 40 or so hours as “literal hell.” They were detained, held on a crowded bus for hours, and then driven to the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility in downtown Minneapolis where they and their fellow protesters filed past a thin blue line flag and were booked into a filthy jail where people struggled to eat, sleep, and access medical care.įlom’s negative experience with the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility was not unique. McFadden, who is Black, suffered a similar fate, as officers beat his legs, struck his camera lens, and, initially, refused to believe that he was a member of the press. “I opened the door, I was yanked out on the ground, my glasses were severely bent, I got a big bruise on my right knee, and they detained me,” Flom said.
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Seconds later, law enforcement officers with weapons drawn surrounded the car, banging on the windows and demanding that they both exit.
A man who he later learned was freelance photographer Joshua Rashaad McFadden, reporting for The New York Times, jumped into the backseat. Law enforcement officers declared an unlawful assembly and quickly moved to arrest protesters.
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