2 journalists nabbed at immigration-linked demonstration
Police arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, during a protest over the immigration-related detainment of a former hospital chaplain in Cincinnati after some demonstrators blocked a two-lane bridge that connected the city to Covington, Kentucky.
Reporter Madeline Fening and a photography intern Lucas Griffith were arrested by Covington Police while covering the protest for CityBeat, a Cincinnati outlet. They were among those arraigned Friday morning in a Kentucky court.
Police in Covington said those arrested had refused to comply with orders to disperse. The department said in a statement that officers who initially attempted to talk with the protest’s organizer were threatened and met with hostility.
Among the charges filed against those arrested were rioting, failing to disperse, obstructing emergency responders, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. A judge on Friday set a $2,500 bond for each of those arrested.
The arrests happened during a protest in support of Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant who worked as a chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
